Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's DreamHarper, 1883 - 195 pages |
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Page 14
... Thisbe , which was performed at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields , and was printed in London the same year . In 1755 Garrick pro- duced , at Drury Lane , an opera taken from A Midsummer- Night's Dream , and entitled The Fairies , the ...
... Thisbe , which was performed at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields , and was printed in London the same year . In 1755 Garrick pro- duced , at Drury Lane , an opera taken from A Midsummer- Night's Dream , and entitled The Fairies , the ...
Page 15
... Thisbe he was doubtless in- debted to Golding's translation of Ovid and Chaucer's Le- gende of Goode Women . Oberon , Titania , and Robin Good- fellow were familiar personages in the popular fairy mythol- ogy of the time , but ...
... Thisbe he was doubtless in- debted to Golding's translation of Ovid and Chaucer's Le- gende of Goode Women . Oberon , Titania , and Robin Good- fellow were familiar personages in the popular fairy mythol- ogy of the time , but ...
Page 22
... Thisbe is not unmeaningly chosen as the grotesque play within the play : it is exactly , like the pa- thetic part of the piece , a secret meeting of two lovers in the forest , and their separation by an unfortunate accident , and closes ...
... Thisbe is not unmeaningly chosen as the grotesque play within the play : it is exactly , like the pa- thetic part of the piece , a secret meeting of two lovers in the forest , and their separation by an unfortunate accident , and closes ...
Page 31
... Thisbe , but they love and recompense all that is pure and pretty . Thus was it of old in the popular traditions ; their characteristic trait of favouring honesty among mortals and persecuting crime was certainly borrowed by Shake ...
... Thisbe , but they love and recompense all that is pure and pretty . Thus was it of old in the popular traditions ; their characteristic trait of favouring honesty among mortals and persecuting crime was certainly borrowed by Shake ...
Page 38
... Thisbe , done in perfect good faith , is a claim that humble love may have its fortunes too , as well as that of the proud and overconscious dames who have been roaming through the woods , sick with fancies . What a delightful raillery ...
... Thisbe , done in perfect good faith , is a claim that humble love may have its fortunes too , as well as that of the proud and overconscious dames who have been roaming through the woods , sick with fancies . What a delightful raillery ...
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