title: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dover Thrift Study Edition)
author:  William Shakespeare 
description: <DIV> <P>"He was not of an age, but for all time," declared Ben Jonson of his contemporary William Shakespeare (1564&#8211;1616). Jonson's praise is especially prescient, since at the turn of the 17th century Shakespeare was but one of many popular London playwrights and none of his dramas were printed in his lifetime. The reason so many of his works survive is because two of his actor friends, with the assistance of Jonson, assembled and published the First Folio edition of 1623.</DIV>
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  by Lynne Rae Perkins  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Greenwillow Book
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  For my loved ones  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **_Special thanks to Bill, Frank and Lucy, my mom and Bob, Tina and Pat at the
  Library, Mary at the Business Helper, Anne the medical consultant, Michael J.,
  who loaned me his guitar, Pat I. the guitar consultant, Ben W. the chord
  player, Frank und Soozie, Leigh and her friend Brian who knows about
  motorcycles. And thanks to Virginia who knows about all kinds of things._**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  What thou seest when thou dost wake,  
  
  
     Do it for thy true-love take….
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _—WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE , A Midsummer Night’s Dream_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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