Midsummer Night's Dream (1918) Yale

by William Shakespeare

For other versions of this work, see Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare).

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S
DREAM

 

EDITED BY
WILLARD HIGLEY DURHAM

 

 

NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS · MCMXVIII

 

Copyright, 1918
By Yale University Press

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First published, September, 1918

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
	PAGE
The Text	1
⁠Act I	1
⁠Act II	14
⁠Act III	29
⁠Act IV	53
⁠Act V	63
Notes	80
Appendix A. Sources of the Play	88
Appendix B. The History of the Play	89
Appendix C. The Text of the Present Edition	91
Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading	92
Index of Words Glossed	93

 

The facsimile opposite represents the unusually handsome title-page of the genuine edition of 1600. The photograph is made from the Elizabethan Club copy, which was formerly in the Heber, Daniel, and Huth libraries. Seven other copies of this edition are known.

 

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

 

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Edited by

Wilbur L. Cross⁠Tucker Brooke

Willard Higley Durham

 

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Published under the Direction

of the

Department of English, Yale University,

on the Fund

Given to the Yale University Press in 1917

by the Members of the

Kingsley Trust Association

To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

of the Founding of the Society