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states that the masque "was personated by some young
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The Later
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may have been the earliest of these pedagogic dramas. The music for the masque was composed by
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A List of
Masques, Pageants, &c., Supplementary to A List of English Plays.
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refer to the "feather-footed Hours," a phrase that also occurs in the play
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The plot of the masque draws upon one of the most famous tales of
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Shirley's version of Bottom. The scene is set at
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London, Bibliographical
Society/Blades, East and Blades, 1902.
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The
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Music in the
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190:fall into this category. The 1646 title page of
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60:; Shirley derives some material from the
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936:Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream
239:which Shirley may have helped the
180:The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses
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929:The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania
310:Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996.
16:Masque by James Shirley (1646)
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1000:"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
243:to write. Forsythe, p. 401.
131:, also appear in Shirley's
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993:Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
888:The Sandman: Dream Country
283:Forsythe, Robert Stanley.
1086:English Renaissance plays
961:A Midsummer Night's Dream
798:A Midsummer Night's Dream
728:A Midsummer Night's Dream
594:A Midsummer Night's Dream
350:A Midsummer Night's Dream
46:A Midsummer Night's Dream
1101:Masques by James Shirley
693:A Midsummer Night's Gene
626:A Midsummer Night's Rave
261:Logan and Smith, p. 166.
1011:A Midsummer's Nightmare
742:Three Shakespeare Songs
701:A Midsummer's Nightmare
610:Dream of a Summer Night
95:all appear, along with
36:and first published in
825:The Triumph of Beauty
196:The Triumph of Beauty
192:The Triumph of Beauty
21:The Triumph of Beauty
806:The Enchanted Island
731:(1842, Mendelssohn)
205:The Triumph of Peace
156:volume of Shirley's
134:The Triumph of Peace
119:. (The three Hours,
115:, and a personified
922:Hermia and Lysander
677:A Midsummer Tempest
642:Were the World Mine
345:William Shakespeare
235:The Country Captain
1047:Dead Poets Society
1039:Pyramus and Thisbe
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485:Productions
472:Philostrate
421:Nick Bottom
413:Mechanicals
291:Greg, W. W.
1091:1646 plays
1080:Categories
980:Television
869:The Lovers
669:Literature
528:Television
358:Characters
147:Trojan War
990:" (1994,
969:The Dream
650:10ml Love
602:Wood Love
441:Tom Snout
403:Demetrius
376:Hippolyta
143:Mount Ida
62:Dialogues
845:The Park
755:Il Sogno
394:Lysander
26:Caroline
1096:Masques
1026:Related
1002:(1994,
905:Titania
895:Auberon
828:(1646,
385:Titania
372:Theseus
278:Sources
121:Eunomia
117:Delight
97:Mercury
1066:(2004)
1058:(1996)
1050:(1989)
1042:(8 CE)
1014:(2017)
972:(1964)
964:(1962)
953:Ballet
900:Faerie
891:(1991)
880:Comics
830:masque
809:(2011)
793:(1949)
785:(1745)
777:(1692)
758:(2004)
744:(1951)
712:(2011)
704:(1997)
696:(1997)
688:(1992)
680:(1974)
661:(2015)
653:(2012)
645:(2008)
637:(2005)
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621:(2001)
613:(1983)
605:(1925)
455:Others
399:Helena
390:Hermia
381:Oberon
365:Lovers
230:Peace,
226:Beauty
154:octavo
139:Dream,
129:Eirene
111:, the
109:Graces
107:, the
93:Pallas
91:, and
66:Lucian
56:, the
30:masque
817:Stage
766:Opera
720:Music
559:Stage
467:Egeus
212:Notes
158:Poems
113:Hours
105:Hymen
101:Cupid
89:Venus
81:Paris
72:play
24:is a
790:Puck
586:Film
566:1970
550:2016
545:1992
540:1981
535:1969
519:2017
514:1999
509:1968
504:1959
499:1935
492:Film
462:Puck
446:Snug
401:and
392:and
383:and
374:and
228:and
184:and
127:and
125:Dike
85:Juno
70:1640
38:1646
28:era
914:Art
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