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    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    By William Shakespeare

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy in five acts written by William Shakespeare. This play was written about 1595–96 and published in 1600 from the author’s manuscript. Considered by many as one of the greatest comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with its vivid examination of love and its vagaries, has long been one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays. Love, imagination, and patriarchy are the main themes in the play. The playwright portrays romantic love as a blind and often beautiful force that can be both cruel and forgiving. Ultimately, it is Shakespeare’s focus on love that drives the play's entire plot.
    In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there are four groups of characters who are involved in various plots. These groups comprise party of Theseus, the young lovers, the fairies and the would-be actors. The main symbols in the play are the moon, roses, and the love potion. Although play ends with several happy weddings, they also carry its undercurrent messages.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDiamond Books
    Release dateMar 24, 2023
    ISBN9789356843271
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

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      A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare

      A Midsummer Night’s Dream

      William Shakespeare

      eISBN: 978-93-5684-327-1

      © Publisher

      Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

      X-30, Okhla Industrial Area, Phase-II New Delhi-110020

      Phone: 011-40712200

      E-mail: ebooks@dpb.in

      Website: www.diamondbook.in

      Edition: 2023

      A Midsummer Night’s Dream

      By - William Shakespeare

      Scanner’s Notes: What this is and isn’t. This was taken from a copy of Shakespeare’s first folio and it is as close as I can come in ASCII to the printed text.

      The elongated S’s have been changed to smalls’s and the conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare’s First Folio and have unified spellings according to this template), typo’s and expanded abbreviations as I have come across them. Everything within brackets [] is what I have added. So if you don’t like that you can delete everything within the brackets if you want a purer Shakespeare.

      Another thing that you should be aware of is that there are textual differences between various copies of the first folio. So there may be differences (other than what I have mentioned above) between this and other first folio editions. This is due to the printer’s habit of setting the type and running off a number of copies and then proofing the printed copy and correcting the type and then continuing the printing run. The proof run wasn’t thrown away but incorporated into the printed copies. This is just the way it is. The text I have used was a composite of more than 30 different First Folio editions’ best pages.

      If you find any scanning errors, out and out typos, punctuation errors, or if you disagree with my spelling choices please feel free to email me those errors. I wish to make this the best etext possible. My email address for right now are haradda@aol.com and davidr@inconnect.com. I hope that you enjoy this.

      David Reed

      A Midsummer Night’s Dream

      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

      Hip. Foure daies wil quickly steep the[m]selues in nights

      Foure nights wil quickly dreame away the time:

      And then the Moone, like to a siluer bow,

      Now bent in heauen, shal behold the night

      Of our solemnities

      The. Go Philostrate,

      Stirre vp the Athenian youth to merriments,

      Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth,

      Turne melancholy forth to Funerals:

      The pale companion is not for our pompe,

      Hippolita, I woo’d thee with my sword,

      And wonne thy loue, doing thee iniuries:

      But I will wed thee in another key,

      With pompe, with triumph, and with reuelling.

      Enter Egeus and his daughter Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius.

      Ege. Happy be Theseus, our renowned Duke

      The. Thanks good Egeus: what’s the news with thee?

      Ege. Full of vexation, come I, with complaint

      Against my childe, my daughter Hermia.

      Stand forth Demetrius.

      My Noble Lord,

      This man hath my consent to marrie her.

      Stand forth Lysander.

      And my gracious Duke,

      This man hath bewitch’d the bosome of my childe:

      Thou, thou Lysander, thou hast giuen her rimes,

      And interchang’d loue-tokens with my childe:

      Thou hast by Moone-light at her window sung,

      With faining voice, verses of faining loue,

      And stolne the impression of her fantasie,

      With bracelets of thy haire, rings, gawdes, conceits,

      Knackes, trifles, Nose-gaies, sweet meats (messengers

      Of strong preuailment in vnhardned youth)

      With cunning hast thou filch’d my daughters heart,

      Turn’d her obedience (which is due to me)

      To stubborne harshnesse. And my gracious Duke,

      Be it so she will not heere before your Grace,

      Consent to marrie with Demetrius,

      I beg the ancient priuiledge of Athens;

      As she is mine, I may dispose of her;

      Which shall be either to this Gentleman,

      Or to her death, according to our Law,

      Immediately prouided in that case

      The. What say you Hermia? be aduis’d faire Maide,

      To you your Father should be as a God;

      One that compos’d your beauties; yea and one

      To whom you are but as a forme in waxe

      By him imprinted: and within his power,

      To leaue the figure, or disfigure it:

      Demetrius is a worthy Gentleman

      Her. So is Lysander

      The. In himselfe he is.

      But in this kinde, wanting your fathers voyce,

      The other must be held the worthier

      Her. I would my father look’d but with my eyes

      The. Rather your eies must with his iudgment looke

      Her. I do entreat your Grace to pardon me.

      I know not by what power I am made bold,

      Nor how it may concerne my modestie

      In such a presence heere to pleade my thoughts:

      But I beseech your Grace, that I may know

      The worst that may befall me in this case,

      If I refuse to wed Demetrius

      The. Either

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