A Midsummer Night's DreamClassic Books Company, 2001 - 500 páginas "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: |
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... drama as played , not at the summer solstice , but on the Wal- purgis night , -Theseus makes several allusions to the May - day ob- servances ; and inasmuch as this old symbolism was vividly present to the poet , we may assume that he ...
... drama as played , not at the summer solstice , but on the Wal- purgis night , -Theseus makes several allusions to the May - day ob- servances ; and inasmuch as this old symbolism was vividly present to the poet , we may assume that he ...
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... Drama , ii , 179 ) that ' Roberts ' printed the play for Fisher , who did not , for some reason unknown to us , care to put his name on the first issue ; but finding the edition . quickly exhausted , and the play popular , he then ...
... Drama , ii , 179 ) that ' Roberts ' printed the play for Fisher , who did not , for some reason unknown to us , care to put his name on the first issue ; but finding the edition . quickly exhausted , and the play popular , he then ...
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... dramatic power is everywhere thrust for- ward . It is pushed even into his Sonnets , and for every sigh there and for every smile we must needs , forsooth , fit an occasion . SHAKE- SPEARE cannot be permitted to bewail his outcast state ...
... dramatic power is everywhere thrust for- ward . It is pushed even into his Sonnets , and for every sigh there and for every smile we must needs , forsooth , fit an occasion . SHAKE- SPEARE cannot be permitted to bewail his outcast state ...
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... drama beyond an allusion to the celebration of May day , and the names Theseus and Philostrate . For the name Hippolyta , SHAKESPEARE must have deserted Chaucer , who gives it ' Ipolita , ' and resorted to his Plutarch . STAUNTON truly ...
... drama beyond an allusion to the celebration of May day , and the names Theseus and Philostrate . For the name Hippolyta , SHAKESPEARE must have deserted Chaucer , who gives it ' Ipolita , ' and resorted to his Plutarch . STAUNTON truly ...
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... drama Shakespeare was in all probability ' indebted for the entire machinery of Oberon and his fairy - court . With every desire to accept Mr WARD's view , I am obliged to acknow- ledge that I can detect no trace of the influence of ...
... drama Shakespeare was in all probability ' indebted for the entire machinery of Oberon and his fairy - court . With every desire to accept Mr WARD's view , I am obliged to acknow- ledge that I can detect no trace of the influence of ...
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ABBOTT actors allusion Athens Bottom called CAPELL character chough clowns Coll COLLIER comedy conj Demetrius doth drama Duke Dyce edition editors Egeus emendation Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fairies fancy FLEAY flower Folio gives gleek HALLIWELL hath haue heere Helena Hermia Hippolyta instance Johns JOHNSON Knight's Tale Ktly Lady lion loue Louers lovers Lysander MALONE meaning mermaid Midsummer Night's Dream misprint moon muſt neuer night Oberon passage Philostrate phrase play poet Pope et seq Pope+ present Puck Pyramus and Thisbe Q₁ Q₂ QqFf Quarto Queen Quince R. G. WHITE reference rhyme Robin Goodfellow Rowe et seq Rowe+ says scene seems sense Shakespeare ſhall ſhe ſhould Sing song stage STAUNTON Steev STEEVENS ſweet thee Theob THEOBALD theſe Theseus Thisby thou Titania vpon W. A. WRIGHT WALKER Crit Warb word
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Página 209 - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Página 293 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Página 87 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 299 - Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Página 270 - And with that word we riden forth oure weye ; And he bigan with right a merie chere His tale, and seide right in this manere. THE KNIGHTES TALE. ILOM, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duk that highte Theseus ; Of Athenes he was lord and governour, And in his tyme swich a conquerour, That gretter was ther non under the sonne. Ful many a riche contre...
Página 82 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 143 - O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute; so full of shapes is fancy, That it alone is high fantastical.
Página xxiii - Jil, and Jin, Tit and Nit, and Wap, and Win : The train that wait upon her. Upon a grasshopper they got, And, what with amble and with trot, For hedge nor ditch they spared not, But after her they hie them. A cobweb over them they throw, To shield the wind if it should blow, Themselves they wisely could bestow, Lest any should espy them.
Página 138 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Página 51 - Tis chastity, my brother, chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel, And like a quiver'd Nymph with Arrows keen May trace huge Forests...