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Description
Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading... read more
Cast of Characters
- Theseus: Duke of Athens
- Egeus: Father to Hermia
- Lysander: In love with Hermia
- Demetrius: In love with Hermia
- Philostrate: Master of the Revels to Theseus
- Peter Quince: A carpenter (Prologue in the play-within-play)
- Snug: A joiner (Lion in the play-within-play)
- Nick Bottom: A weaver (Pyramus in the play-within-play)
- Francis Flute: A bellows mender (Thisby in the play-within-play)
- Tom Snout: A tinker (Wall in the play-within-play)
- Robin Starveling: A tailor (Moonshine in the play-within-play)
- 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
- Peasebottom: A fairy
- Cobweb: A fairy
- Moth: A fairy
- Mustardseed: A fairy
- Other fairies and attendants.: Add a description of this character.
First Sentence
Theseus: Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
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- William Shakespeare (Author)
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