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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: a Midsummer Night's Dreame. 1895.
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare a Midsummer Night's Dreame 1895 Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3textit{[Scene //.] textit{Enter Quince the Carpenter, Snug the loyner, Bottome the textit{Weauer, Flute the bellowes-mender, Snout the Tinker, and textit{Starueling the Taylor. text... more »it{Quin. Is all our company heere ? textit{Bot. You were beft to call them generally, man by 5 man, accojding to the fcrip. textit{Qui. Here is the fcrowle of euery mans name, which is thought fit through all textit{Athens, to play in our Enter- lude before the Duke and the Dutches, on his wedding day at night. 10 [Scene IV. Pope-K Scene III. Fleay. 2. Snout] Snowt F3F4 Rowe, Pope. Scene II. Cap. et seq. Scene changes to 6. textit{to Om. Q,. a Cottage. Theob. A Room in Quince's 8. textit{Enterlude interlude Theob. et House. Cap. seq. I, 2. Snug...Snout] and textit{Snugge, the 9. textit{the Dutches] Dutches: Pope ii, loyner, and textit{Bottom, the Weauer, and Theob. Warb. Johns. Steev. Mai. Var. textit{Flute, the Bellowes mender, and textit{Snout, Q,. Coll. Sing. Ktly. I. Johnson : In this scene Shakespeare takes advantage of his knowledge of the theatre to ridicule the prejudices and the competitions of the players. Bottom, who is generally acknowledged the principal actor, declares his inclination to be for a tyrant, for a part of fury, tumult, and noise, such as every young man pants to perform when he first steps upon the stage. The same Bottom, who seems bred in a tiring- room, has another histrionical passion. He is for engrossing every part, and would exclude his inferiors from all possibility of distinction. He is therefore desirous to play Pyramus, Thisbe, and the Lion, at the same time.—Staunton suggests the possibility that ' in the rude dramatic performance of these handicraftsmen of Athens, Shakespeare was referring to the plays and pageants exhibited by the trading companies of ...« less