Other editions of book A Midsummer Night's Dream

This study text is geared to both examination and coursework requirements at GCSE level. Information is also included on textual history and performance, sources, historical background, themes and characters. It contains questions based on scenes, episodes and the play as a whole. A special feature is boxed questions, opposite the text throughout, which prompt students to consider the plays and the characters so far - so building up understanding as they read. A personal essay by a writer who has close contact with the living theatre prefaces each study and students are encouraged to "see" the plays in action. Production photographs, theatre reviews and drama activities set the plays in their theatrical contexts. In addition, study questions extend pupils' experience of the plays and provide a sequence of coursework assignments. Specialist editors also contribute their own views on the plays.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM. ACT I. SCENE I. Athens. A Room in the Palace of Theseus. Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate, and Attendants. Theseus. 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, Like to a step-dame, or a dowager, Long withering out a young man's revenue. Hippolyta. Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow New bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our solemnities. Theseus. Go, Philostrate, Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments; Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth: Turn melancholy forth to funerals; The pale companion is not for our pomp. -- [Exit Philostrate. Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword, And won thy love doing thee injuries; But I will wed thee in another key, With pomp, with triumph, and with revelling. Enter Egeus, Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius. Egeus. Happy be Theseus, our renowned Duke! Theseus. Thanks, good Egeus: what's the news with thee? Egeus. Full of vexation come I, with complaint Against my child, my daughter Hermia. -- Stand forth, Demetrius. -- My noble lord, This man hath my consent to marry her. -- Stand forth, Lysander : -- and, my gracious Duke, This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child. Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes, And interchang'd love-tokens with my child: Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung, With feigning voice, verses of feigning love; And stol'n the impression of her fantasy With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits, Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats, messengers Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth; With cunning...

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