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Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century
1970·64 pages
Scholarly facsimile of the Smock Alley prompt-book of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with collations and a critical introduction.
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Scholarly facsimile of the Smock Alley prompt-book of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with collations and a critical introduction.
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This is the latest volume in a series of the earliest known prompt-books of Shakespeare's plays. It presents a carefully reproduced facsmile of the Smock Alley revision of A Midsummer Night's Dream, with detailed collations (including comparison with six other theatre versions of the play, four of them from the 18th century) and a historical critical introduction
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Young lovers’ entanglements; comic enchanted desire in the play
Violence & gore
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Mild comic peril; mock deaths in the play-within-a-play
Profanity
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Occasional bawdy Elizabethan wordplay and innuendo
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA+ representation depicted
Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Fairy magic, love potions, and enchantments central to the play text
Occult / demonology
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No real-world occult or demonology content
Political content
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Self-harm / suicide
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Comic mock-suicide in the Pyramus and Thisbe interlude
Abuse & suffering
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