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A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta . These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.

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“Up and down, up and down
I will lead them up and down
I am feared in field in town
Goblin, lead them up and down”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,
could ever hear by tale or history,
the course of true love never did run smooth.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“If we shadows have offended,
Know but this and all is mended.
That you have but slumbered here,
While these visions did appear,
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding, but a dream.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus.
Now I am dead,
Now I am fled,
My soul is in the sky.
Tongue, lose thy light.
Moon take thy flight.
Now die, die, die, die.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“Love's stories written in love's richest books.
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream