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Jul 31, 2015 · Contents. Act 1, scene 1. ⌜ Scene 1 ⌝. Synopsis: Theseus, duke of Athens, is planning the festivities for his upcoming wedding to the newly captured Amazon, Hippolyta. Egeus arrives with his daughter Hermia and her two suitors, Lysander (the man she wants to marry) and Demetrius (the man her father wants her to marry).
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Full Book Summary. Theseus, duke of Athens, is preparing for his marriage to Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, with a four-day festival of pomp and entertainment. He commissions his Master of the Revels, Philostrate, to find suitable amusements for the occasion. Egeus, an Athenian nobleman, marches into Theseus’s ...
HIPPOLYTA. Four days will quickly steep themselves in night. Four nights will quickly dream away the time. And then the moon, like to a silver bow. 10 New bent in heaven, shall behold the night. Of our solemnities. HIPPOLYTA. No, you’ll see, four days will quickly turn into four nights. And since we dream at night, time passes quickly then.
Bottom. O grim-look'd night! O night with hue so black! O night, which ever art when day is not! O night, O night! alack, alack, alack, 2015. I fear my Thisby's promise is forgot! And thou, O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall, That stand'st between her father's ground and mine!
Nov 1, 1998 · A Midsummer Night's Dream Credits: the PG Shakespeare Team, a team of about twenty Project Gutenberg volunteers Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Comedies Subject: Courtship -- Drama Subject: Athens (Greece) -- Drama Subject: Fairy plays Category: Text: EBook-No. 1514: Release Date: Nov 1 ...
Jul 31, 2015 · Act 5, scene 1. ⌜ Scene 1 ⌝. Synopsis: Theseus dismisses as imaginary the lovers’ account of their night’s experience, and then chooses “Pyramus and Thisbe” for the night’s entertainment. The play is so ridiculous and the performance so bad that the courtly audience find pleasure in mocking them. When the play is over and the ...
May 14, 1999 · A Midsummer Night's Dream: Directed by Michael Hoffman. With Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci. Lovers' lives are complicated by city law ...
