Arthur Rackham: Puck and a Fairy
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Arthur Rackham: Puck and a Fairy |
(Allusion to title)
Henry Fuseli: Titania, Bottom and the Fairies |
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And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. (I,i) |
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| That would hang us, every mother's son. (I,ii) |
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| (Allusion to stage direction, II,i) |
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| Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania. (II,i) |
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And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. (II,i) |
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I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes. (II,i)  Francis Danby: Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Never harm Nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh. (II,ii) |
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| A crew of patches, rude mechanicals. (III,ii) |
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| Lord, what fools these mortals be! (III,ii) |
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| Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook. (III,ii) |
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| Methought I was enamour'd of an ass. (IV,i) |
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 I never heardSo musical a discord, such sweet thunder. (IV,i) |
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| I have had a most rare vision. (IV,i) |
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| I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream; it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom. (IV,i) |
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The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: . . . The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. (V,i) |
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| Masters, the duke is coming from the temple; and there is two or three lords and ladies more married. (IV,ii) |
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Hard-handed men that work in Athens here,
Which never labour'd in their minds till now, And now have toil'd their unbreathed memories With this same play, against your nuptial. (V,i) |
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A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus And his love Thisbe; very tragical mirth. Merry and tragical! Tedious and brief! That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow. (V,i) |
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His speech was like a tangled chain; nothing impaired, but all disordered. (V,i) |
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