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		"For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me." - Winnie the Pooh

	Midsummer Night's Dream
	by William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Clemen

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Format: Mass Market Paperback, 147 pag

Edition: REV

Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc.

ISBN: 0451526961

Release Date: Jan 1, 1997

In Brief
"Stewart has adapted the play with two major kinds of changes: one, the speeches are cut; two, there are words and phrases changed in an effort to simplify the language. . . . Grades five and six." (Bull Cent Child Books)

Annotation
Having presented the Bard's works in accurate and accessible texts for over 35 years, The Folger Shakespeare Library now offers new editions, based on the best early printed version of each play, which reflect the latest scholarship, and include sections on reading Shakespearean language, plus annotated reading lists and modern assessments by outstanding scholars. Illustrated with materials from the Library's extensive collections. Original.

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The Reader's Catalog
I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was,--and methought I had,--but man is but a patched fool, if he offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom.

"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes
that I prize above my dukedom."

"And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be."

"Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words."

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

"I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words."

"It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds."

"To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature."

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	General Editor's Preface
	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Moral conventions and human sympathy, 1775	59
2	Artists' interpretations of dramatic effects, 1787	63
3	Commentary on A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1790	66
4	Bottom as coxcomb, 1792	70
5	Response to Malone, 1793	74
6	Illustrations of some passages, 1794	76
7	His fertile and creative fancy, 1800	79
8	On metre, invention, and a unified whole, 1815	81
9	Unity of feeling and of imagery, and the fairies, 1817	84
10	Bottom, Puck, and the incompatibility of poetry and the stage, 1817	90
11	Malone's last words, 1821	94
12	Mainly on the fairies, 1824	97
13	The fairy world, the clowns, the poetry, 1828	101
14	New actors on the mimic scene-the fairies, 1828	105
15	Marginalia and other notes, 1836	108
16	Bottom the lucky man, 1837	111
17	Critics refuted, 1838	118
18	Originality in structure, machinery, and language, 1839	121
19	The Pictorial Edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1839	123
20	The poet's dream, 1840	130
21	Anachronisms, Nick Bottom as Midas, and stage representation, 1841	132
22	Oberon's Vision allegorized, 1843	137
23	Fairy drama and human nature, 1843	142
24	Poet of the Fairies, 1844	145
25	A comment, with some explanatory notes, 1845	148
26	The theme of self-parody, 1846	153
27	Introductory remarks, 1847	157
28	The sister arts, and the play's structural balance, 1848	162
29	A festival of dainties, 1851	168
30	The Dream and Art, 1851, 1872, 1883, 1884	173
31	A most charming entertainment of the stage, 1853	177
32	Samuel Phelps's Bottom, 1853	181
33	Dramatic and poetic art, 1854	184
34	Dialogue with a sceptic, 1854	190
35	Critical remarks on the play, 1856	197
36	Celtic elements, 1859	203
37	Genre and inner purpose, 1863	206
38	Intuitive power of characterization, 1863	214
39	The play's limitations, 1864	217
40	The sacred mysteries in the play, 1865	219
41	The secret meaning of the Interlude, 1865	225
42	The perfection of imbecilic clowns, 1866	229
43	Not critics, but lowly worshippers of the Beautiful, 1869	232
44	The theme is love, 1871	235
45	Bottom - an ass, but no fool, 1873	238
46	A Midsummer Night's Dream as masque, 1874	241
47	Self-reflexive structure: the Real, the Ideal, and the Representation, 1874	245
48	Shakespeare differentiated from Bacon, 1875	253
49	Theseus as the central figure, 1875	256
50	A comedy of incident, 1875	259
51	Consummation of Shakespeare's lyrical genius, 1876	262
52	Bottom, a self-made man, 1876	264
53	The full glow of fancy and fun, 1877	267
54	The wood is the world, 1879	270
55	Titania and Ovid, 1880	274
56	A Platonic reading, 1884	277
57	Interpreting the spoken verse, 1885	281
58	Observations on the lovers and the mechanicals, 1886	288
59	Poet rather than dramatist, 1888	292
60	Source of the play's popularity, 1888	295
61	Classical and modern, 1890	298
62	Reason and desire in Oberon and Titania, 1890	303
63	The development of morality and art, 1891	307
64	A true work of art, 1894	313
65	The duration of the action, 1895	317
66	Life and art, 1895	321
67	Mr. Daly and the idea of titivation, 1895	324
68	Remarks on the play and modern education, 1895	328
69	Theseus, Bottom, and the Interlude, 1896	332
70	The central idea, 1897	335
71	The airy dream, 1898	339
72	Illusion, realism, and imagination, 1900	343
73	Dream visions, 1903	346
74	A comedy of situation and enchantment, 1903	353
75	Shakespeare's working classes, 1903	357
76	The atmosphere of the play, 1904	360
77	Love, dreamland, and Helena, 1905	365
78	The theme of illusion, 1907	368
79	The nature and sources of the play, 1908	370
80	The most beautiful work of man, 1909	373
81	Shakespeare's conception of his art, 1911	374
82	Screeds of word-music, 1914	378
83	Three types of fairies: Puck, Oberon and Titania, 1916	381
84	The dream's validity, 1917	383
85	Comedy of love, 1920	386
	Notes	389
	Select Bibliography	419
	Index	436

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