Tuesday, June 20, 2023

William Shakespeare (1572-1631)


Elle Borders as Peter Quince, Monica Giordano as Snug, Jake Athyal as Francis Flute, Mac Young as Tom Snout, Steven Barkhimer as Bottom in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

                                                    from Midsummer Night' Dream

Is all our company here?

(Quince, Act 1 Scene 2)

Bless thee, Bottom! Bless thee! Thou art translated.

(Quince, Act 3 Scene 1) Midsummer Night's Dream

What angel wakes me from my flow’ry bed?
(Titania, Act 3 Scene 1)

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
(Bottom, Act 3 Scene 1)

I have had a most rare vision. I had a dream, past the wit of man 
to say what dream it was… The eye of man hath not heard, 
the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, 
his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
(Bottom, Act 4 Scene 1)

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