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Jul 31, 2015 · In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus's Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not….
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. Theseus.
Comprehensive free online text and script of each Act and scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream the William Shakespeare play.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Scene 1. Athens. The palace of THESEUS. Scene 2. Athens. QUINCE’S house. Scene 1. A wood near Athens.
Edition: A Midsummer Night's Dream; A Midsummer Night's Dream (Modern) Texts of this edition. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Modern; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Folio 1, 1623 (Old-spelling transcription) A Midsummer Night's Dream, Quarto 1, 1600 (Old-spelling transcription) Facsimiles A Midsummer Night's Dream, Quarto 1; A Midsummer Night's Dream ...
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In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, residents of Athens mix with fairies from a local forest, with comic results. In the city, Theseus, Duke of Athens, is to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. Bottom the weaver and his friends rehearse in the woods a play they hope to stage for the wedding celebrations. Four young Athenians are in a romantic ...
