The New Grant White Shakespeare (Volume 3); The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakespeare (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Act One. Scene I. ? Athens. A Room in the Palace of Theseus. Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate, and Attendants. CT'HESEUS. Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace: four happy days bring in Another moon; but, oh, 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's revenue. Hippolyta. Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; 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 10 Of our solemnities. The. Go, Philostrate, Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments; Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth: 2 four. . . days. The action of by the almanac, for there was to the play involves but three. (r) be bright moonlight for the play 10 Newbent. Folios and quartos that evening. III. i. 56, and for have Now bent. It is plain that the rehearsal the night before, Hippolyta speaks of the moon as I. ii. 101.] it will be, not as it is. Rowe u Philoatrate. The name oc- made the correction. Evidently, curs in Chaucer and in Plutarch however, the play was not written in connection with Theseus. (k) Vol. m. ?11 Turn melancholy forth to funerals; The pale companion is not for our pomp. ? Exit Phil. 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 20 The. Thanks, good Egeus: what's the news with thee ? Ege. Full of vexation come I; with complaint Against my child, my daughter Hermia. ? Stand forth, Demetrius. ? My noble lord, This man ha...