A Midsummer Night's DreamMix-ups and mishaps occur when Oberon, the King of the Fairies, doses his sleeping wife with a magical potion that causes her to fall in love with the first living thing she sees upon awakening. |
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Page 13
... play , tho ' I don't think them needful . Note in this Dream the first of those inconsistencies as to the time of the action of the play that became so markt a feature in later plays , like The Merchant of Venice , where three months ...
... play , tho ' I don't think them needful . Note in this Dream the first of those inconsistencies as to the time of the action of the play that became so markt a feature in later plays , like The Merchant of Venice , where three months ...
Page 14
... play with an epilogue . " Shakspere was no democrat , " says Munro . " Modern democratic ideas had not yet appeard on the horizon of European thought ; but here , in this play , we see our poet's open - hearted humanity and noble ...
... play with an epilogue . " Shakspere was no democrat , " says Munro . " Modern democratic ideas had not yet appeard on the horizon of European thought ; but here , in this play , we see our poet's open - hearted humanity and noble ...
Page 15
... play : For never anything can be amiss When simpleness and duty tender it . ' " As Shakspere may have used in his play Plutarch's Life of Theseus in North's Plutarch's Lives , englisht in 1579 ( other editions in 1595 , 1603 , 1612 ...
... play : For never anything can be amiss When simpleness and duty tender it . ' " As Shakspere may have used in his play Plutarch's Life of Theseus in North's Plutarch's Lives , englisht in 1579 ( other editions in 1595 , 1603 , 1612 ...
Page 16
... play is rather a preparation for Romeo and Juliet than one of the Errors Group , tho ' to the latter it is strongly linkt . In arranging the plays in sequence , therefore , I keep The Two Gentlemen by itself , treating it as the link - play ...
... play is rather a preparation for Romeo and Juliet than one of the Errors Group , tho ' to the latter it is strongly linkt . In arranging the plays in sequence , therefore , I keep The Two Gentlemen by itself , treating it as the link - play ...
Page 17
... , PHILOSTRATE , and Attendants The . Now , fair Hippolyta , our nuptial hour Draws on apace ; four happy days bring in Another moon : but , O , methinks . how slow This old moon wanes ! she lingers my desires , 17 TEXT OF PLAY.
... , PHILOSTRATE , and Attendants The . Now , fair Hippolyta , our nuptial hour Draws on apace ; four happy days bring in Another moon : but , O , methinks . how slow This old moon wanes ! she lingers my desires , 17 TEXT OF PLAY.
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