A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763)

A Fairy Tale

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The most interesting cut is the attempt to get rid entirely of the character of Titania or at least so much of her role as is concerned with the quarrel with Oberon over the little Indian boy and the consequent Bottom-enchantment episode. It is unfortunate that even in this case the loss of the leaf containing the end of Act I and the beginning of Act II makes the full extent of the cut somewhat conjectural. But it is certain, that lines must have been deleted since they are entirely concerned with the Titania-Oberon quarrel, and almost certainly lines In fact as the cutting now stands Oberon's first speech comes at line " just after the exits of Demetrius and Helena.

In the prompt-book, however, there is a cross in the left margin opposite this speech. Since, in order to make the speech, Oberon must have entered at least fifteen to twenty lines perhaps more earlier, this cross cannot indicate his point of entry. In the Smock Alley prompt-books a cross is frequently used to mark the place of an insertion. Here, although no insertion was written in, there is an obvious need for some explanation of the "flower" referred to by Oberon in line , Shakespeare's earlier handling of the matter having been cut entirely.

It may be noticed that this drastic cut also removes the Bottom-Asshead incident and would necessitate the later cutting of Bottom's dream IV. As a result it is not clear what exactly is supposed to frighten the "hempen homespuns" at III. Presumably, however, Puck, although both his speeches have been cut, was meant to appear and scare them away; his entry has been preserved at line Such, at any rate, is the way? Settle handles the situation in his operatic version of the play called The Fairy Queen Puck watches them perform the Pyramus and Thisbe parody inserted here by?

Settle and then without a word 'Robin runs in amongst them ' and the mechanicals ' Exeunt, running several ways! Since like the Padua Winter's Tale , the 'Nursery' Midsummer Night's Dream is merely a cutting of the play which apparently never reached production, only two pages have been reproduced in facsimile: The collation, however, records, as usual, all the cuts and notations for the whole play.

The cutting of the 'Nursery' Midsummer Night's Dream has been compared throughout with: For a discussion of the probable 'Nursery' provenience, see the Introduction to the 'Nursery' Comedy of Errors. This relationship can be deduced from the pattern of staining in the upper, outer corner of the leaves in both. The eighteenth-century acting versions have been so drastically shortened that comparative figures are not very helpful. Garrick's The Fairies reduces the play to about lines of which are song lyrics and omits the whole of the fifth act; the Colman-Garrick version runs to about " lines of which are again song lyrics and also omits all but 18 lines of Act V.

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