A Midsummer Nights Dream
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Shakespeare, William
date: 0000-00-00
extent: 97951
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language: en
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source: midsummersnightsdream.Z
subject: lysander
subject: hermia
subject: demetrius
subject: love
subject: hippolyta
subject: days
subject: will
subject: quickly
subject: steep
subject: themselves
subject: night
subject: shakespeare
subject: william
subject: midsummer
subject: nights
subject: dream
subject: english
subject: literature
type: text
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full text: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM DRAMATIS PERSONAE THESEUS Duke of Athens. EGEUS father to Hermia. LYSANDER | | in love with Hermia. DEMETRIUS | PHILOSTRATE master of the revels to Theseus. QUINCE a carpenter. SNUG a joiner. BOTTOM a weaver. FLUTE a bellows-mender. SNOUT a tinker. STARVELING a tailor. HIPPOLYTA queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus. HERMIA daughter to Egeus, in love with Lysander. HELENA in love with Demetrius. OBERON king of the fairies. TITANIA queen of the fairies. PUCK or Robin Goodfellow. PEASEBLOSSOM | | COBWEB | | fairies. MOTH | | MUSTARDSEED | Other fairies attending their King and Queen. Attendants on Theseus and Hippolyta. SCENE Athens, and a wood near it. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM ACT I SCENE I Athens. The palace of THESEUS. [Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and Attendants] THESEUS Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires, Like to a step-dame or a dowager Long withering out a young man revenue. 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 New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our solemnities. THESEUS Go, Philostrate, Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments; Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth; Turn melancholy forth to funerals; The pale companion is not for our pomp. [Exit PHILOSTRATE] Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword, And won thy love, doing thee injuries; But I will wed thee in another key, With pomp, with triumph and with revelling. [Enter EGEUS, HERMIA, LYSANDER, and DEMETRIUS] EGEUS Happy be Theseus, our renowned duke! THESEUS Thanks, good Egeus: what's the news with thee? EGEUS Full of vexation come I, with complaint Against my child, my daughter Hermia. Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord, This man hath my consent to marry her. Stand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke, This man hath…