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The text of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is very long, so we have separated the play into it’s original Acts and Scenes. Click on the appropriate links below to read Shakespeare’s original A Midsummer Night’s Dream script, or a simple, modern English translation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Modern English. |.
I’ve come to introduce you to a dream. You’ll see an angry fairy king, four frustrated human lovers, and six abominable actors trying to put on a play. The fairy king is angry about me. You see, I’m a changeling—a human child adopted by the fairy folk.
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Comprehensive free online text and script of each Act and scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream the William Shakespeare play.
You were best to call them generally, man by 271man, according to the script. 1.2.3 272 Quince Here is the scroll of every man's name which 273 is thought fit through all Athens to play in our 274 interlude before the duke and the duchess on his wedding 275 day at night.
I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called ‘Bottom’s Dream’, because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before the Duke. Peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall sing it at her death.
David Reed. A Midsommer Nights Dreame. Actus primus. Enter Theseus, Hippolita, with others. Theseus. Now faire Hippolita, our nuptiall houre Drawes on apace: foure happy daies bring in Another Moon: but oh, me thinkes, how slow This old Moon wanes; She lingers my desires Like to a Step-dame, or a Dowager, Long withering out a yong mans reuennew.
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Complete text. A. MIDSOMMER. Nights Dreame. 1 Actus primus. 2 Enter Theseus, Hippolita, with others. 3 Theseus. 4 NOw faire Hippolita, our nuptiall houre. 5 Drawes on apace: foure happy daies bring in. 6 Another Moon: but oh, me thinkes, how sl ow. 7 This old Moon wanes; She lingers my de si res. 8 Like to a Step-dame, or a Dowager,
