"Sleeping in the summer night (a midsummer night" s dream) "

Sleep in Ivanov night.

Active faces.

Teze, Duke Athens.

Age, Father Hermia.

Lizandr and Demetrius, lovers in Hermia.

Philostrat, manager of the festival of theses.

Pigva, carpenter.

Bourv, joiner.

Motok, weaver.

Twink, merchant inflatable furs.

Float, medical.

Otter, tailor.

Ippolita, Queen Amazon, Bride Tezay.

Hermia, Egea's daughter, in love with Lizandra.

Elena, in love with Demetrius.

Oberon, king elves.

Pok or Dobryak Ruben, Elf.

Titania, Queen Chalves.

Easy peas, web, mole, mustard seed - elves.

Pirs, Fisby, Wall, Moonlight, Lev - Persons involved in intermediate.

Elves accompanying Oberon and Titania. Cruised Tezay and Ippolites.

Situation: Athens and forest adjacent to them.

First action

Cases: Teze, Ippolita, Philostrat and Sweet.

Tezie. Beauty of the Hippolyta, the hour of our marriage is approaching quickly. After four fertile days to come a new month. But the old one seems to me, you kill unusually slowly; He delays the fulfillment of my desires, like a machikha or widow, long slowing to pass the property to the young heir.

Hippolyte. Four nights will quickly distinguish the remaining four days, and the dream of four these nights will help reduce time. And when he will be afraid, the new moon, bent in the sky silver spirit, will see the night of our celebration.

Tezie. Stay, Philostrat, inspired by Athenian youth and tell me, so that it has fun. Yes, there is a living, frisky spirit of fun in it. Sorrow is decent only to funeral processions, and she, pale, not comrade our flavor (Philostrat go). You, Ippolita, I highlighted my sword; Insulting you, got your love. Now I want another order for our marriage, that is, peters, festivities and celebrations.

Enter: Age, Hermia, Lizandr and Demetrius.

Aegea. I wish every happiness toze, our glorious duke.

Tezie. Thank you, kind of uge. What do you say to us Novago?

Aegea. I came to the soul, I came to you with a complaint about my daughter my Hermia. Demetriy, come closer. Sovereign, this man received my consent to marry her. Come and you, Lizandr. But this one, the kindest my duke, was completely prompted by my child. You, Lizandr, gave her poems, exchanged with her pledges of love, sowed a song under her window and a false voice he had fallen lying love. You have made it the arrangement of wrists made from your hair, rings, ribbons, different faded baubles, flowers, delicacies. Thanks to these messengers, to resist that the gentle adolescence is unfortunately, you kowardly kidnapped my daughter's heart and turned the obedience to stubbornly, with whom she is obliged to perform the will of the Father. Therefore, the kindest duke, I ask you if she even here, in your presence, refuses to go out for Demetrius, let me use the old Athenian right. Since she is mine, I can have it to have it, and I have it like this: I will cover it or go out for this person, or, according to an old law, which foresee the case, to death.

Tezie. What do you say, Hermia? Pretty girl, in hand. Father must be God for you: he is the creator of your beauty. For him, you are the same as the wax or stupid doll, which he is waved or keep safely, or destroy. Demetrius - a young man is quite worthy.

Hermia. And Lizardr is also worthy.

Tezie. Put it, so. But, having in mind the desire of your father, preference should be given to the first.

Hermia. Why does father do not want to watch my eyes?

Tezie. Not he, and you have to look through the eyes of his prudence.

Hermia. Forgive me, Duke. What power gives me courage and how much, saying my thoughts in such a presence, I can damage my modesty, - I do not know. Please tell your lordship to me: - If I refuse to go for a demetry, what can you expect me to be the worst?

Tezie. Or death, or omitting forever from the society of men. Therefore, the beauty of Hermia, think. Accept your youth to your youth and pretty good at your blood, whether it is, if you do not give away the father's desire, always wear her launches. Think: You will put you in the gloomy monastery, where you will lead the life of miserable priestesses, having sluggish hymns with a cold, fruitless moon. Three times blessed those that are so in the power to study their blood that in a state of virgins to go through the whole life path. But, speaking of the earth, - torn rose is happier than that, who, having fading on a virgin stem, Rostet, lives and dies in lonely bliss.

Hermia. I, my Lord, rather agree, live and die so much to substitute the neck under a heavy yarm, which I am hateful.

Tezie. I give you a time to drag. In the next new moon, then-there is on the day of my connection with my beloved for eternal cohabitation, - Yes, on the same day, if you do not agree to go for Demetrius, whether you are ready or die for your disobedience, or bring Diana to Altar Most of eternal impossibility and loneliness.

Demetrius. Listen to the Father and Duke, Beauty Hermia. And you, Lizandr, also give up their missed intention to impede my indisputable right.

Lizardr. You, Demetrius, acquired Father's love; I get married if you want, on it, and Hermia leave me.

Aegea. Yes, the stubborn Lizardr, he acquired my love and all that mine, this love conveys him. My daughter is mine, and all my rights to her I give Demetrius.

Lizardr. I, my master, comes at all no worse than him. I'm just as rich as he, but I love stronger than he. I in all respects, if not higher, is equal to Demetrius; But, more importantly, I love perfectly Hermia. Why don't I use my advantage? In my presence, I argue that Demetriya cared for Elena, the daughter of Nadar, heavened her heart, and she, poor, loves to adoration, simply worst this criminal disabled person.

Tezie. I confess, I heard about it and even wanted to talk to Demetrius about this business, but, burdened with my own business, I still forgot it. Go, Demetriy! Go and you, Age. Go both for me. For both of you, I have some secret instructions. And you, beautiful Hermia, if you do not want, so that the Law of Athens, to soften which we cannot condemn you to death or for eternal loneliness, try to give way of your father. We go, Ippolita. How do you look at it, my sweetheart? Demetriy and you, Age, go too for me. I need to talk to you about something relating to our wedding, and then something relating to you.

Aegea. We go for you on debt and optional (leaves with theses, hippolyte and demeter; behind them a suit).

Lizardr. Well, my love? How are you pale! Why did the roses fade on your laboctions so quickly?

Hermia. Probably from lack of rain, which could always irrigate a storm, which broke out in my eyes.

Lizardr. Alas, never from books, nor from the outer legend, I did not know that the course of true love happened when either serene. Happiness is indignant by the birth difference ...

Hermia. Yes, grief when they are too highly captured standing too low.

Lizardr. Then the difference in the years ...

Hermia. Mountain, when too old wants to tie himself with too young.

Lizardr. That is the need to obey someone else's choice ...

Hermia. Oh, if in love you have to submore the choice of other people's eyes, it is a perfect hell.

Lizardr. If the choice is even happy, the war is threatened, then death, then diseases, make it instant, like sound, full-range, as a shadow, briefly like sleep, and elusive, like lightning, in the Black Night Screwing Sky and, before you have time Say: "Look", again absorbing the earth with a merciless mouth of the gloom. Yes, all the bright fades quickly quickly.

Hermia. If you sincerely loving always met obstacles, it means that this is the predetermination of fate. We will learn to patiently treat obstacles we occur, as these obstacles are the usual business, as inevitable in love, as the everight of its satellites - dreams and sighs, desires and tears.

Lizardr. It is quite convincing, so listen, Hermia. I have a aunt, a childless widow with a great condition, - her house in seven miles from Athens, - and she loves me, as the mother loves the mother of the sole. There, cute Hermia, I can get married with you, there is a strict law of Athens is powerless. If you love me, leave your father's house quietly tomorrow, and I will wait for you in a grove, just one mile away from the city, in the most grove, where I once had already met you when you were celebrating May Morning with Elena.

Hermia. Oh, my sweet Lisandr, I swear to you with the most merciless Luke of Cupid, the best arrow with the golden edge, the slicety pigeons of Venus, to all that connects the soul and makes love happy, fire, burning the queen of Carthage, when she saw Sailing Trojan running away from her; I swear by all the oaths ever disturbed men, even more numerous, when either spoken women, that tomorrow I will certainly be with you at the appointed place.

Lizardr. Hold your promise, my dear. But, look, and Elena.

Elena enters.

Hermia. Hello, beauty Elena. Where are you going?

Elena. Are you saying: Beauty? Take back this word. Demetrius loves your beauty. Oh, happy beauty! Your eyes - traveling stars, And the sweet sounds of your voice is more pleasant to him than the shepherd of the lark song, when the Niva is green and the hawthorn will bloom. The disease is adhering - about if the beauty was like that! I would get from yours, beautiful Hermia, I would not get a step away from you, until my ears have become infected with your voice, my eyes are your eyes, my tongue is a charming harmony of your speech. It belongs to me the whole world, -, with the exception of Demetrius, would give it all, so that only to transform you. Oh, teach me to watch me like you, teach the sorcerer, with the help of which you took the heart of Demetrius!

Hermia. I turn away from him, and he loves me everything.

Elena. Oh, if your incontestability handed this power to my smiles!

Hermia. I curse him, and he answers me with love.

Elena. Oh, if my mozzles caused this location in it!

Hermia. The more I hate him, he is more haunting me with his own molhers.

Elena. The stronger I love him, the stronger he hates me

Giermia. It is his wines, Elena, and not mine.

Elena. Not yours, but the wines of your beauty. Oh, why not I am guilty!

Hermia. You will be comfortable, he will no longer see my face: Lizardr and I run away. While I did not see Lizandra, Athens seemed to me by paradise. As a great power of my lover, when the most paradise he drew into hell!

Lizardr. Elena, and open it all. Tomorrow at night when Febay sees his silver face in a water mirror and removes meadow with liquid diamonds, that is, an hour always covers the escape of lovers, we will leave the Athens.

Hermia. And in the most grove, in which we both with you so often, resting on the bed of flowers, passed our sweet dreams with each other, we will come down with Lizandr in order to turn our eyes from Athens and look for new friends in an alien to our society. Goodbye, my childhood friend! Moths for us gods, and let them send you the happiness of your demetry. Help your word, Lizandr. Let's make it only until tomorrow's midnight is hungry for our eyes and we will launch an abstinence from sweet food of love (out).

Lizardr. I cut, my Hermia. Goodbye, Elena! Let the Demetriy also sighs about you, how do you sigh but it (out).

Elena. Oh, how good others are! In Athens, they find that I am as good as she, but what about it? Demetrius does not find it. He does not want to know that everything else knows him. And how he is mistaken, the eyes of Hermia, so I shave him perfections. Love even the most insignificant, the most stray man can attach beauty, and dignity. Love looks not through the eyes, but a heart. That's why the winged Cupid is depicted by the blind: love does not know how to reason; Possessing the wings, but devoid of eyes, it serves as an emblem of irreparable levity. Therefore, he is so often mistaken in the choice and his name is a child. Like playful children often change in games to this word, and the child-love is constantly changing his oaths. So Demetrius, until he saw Hermia, shouted me with a hail of the assumption that he exclusively belongs to me. But only a warm beam of beauty Germy touched this ice, he melted and crumbled with a whole stream of rain. I'll go, I will tell him about the shoot, plucked Hermia; Tomorrow at night he will hammer behind her in the forest. For me, a big award will be that if he thank me for this notice. I, at least, facilitate my suffering from what I will be with him and he will return with him from there (out).

There. Room in the house of Pigva.

Includes: Boulevard, Motion, Dudk, Fig, Pigva and Otter.

Pigva. Are all our assembly?

Motion. It would be better for you to make us a rollback at all at all, and then alone.

Pigva. Here full list The names of those persons who are recognized in all Athens capable of playing in our intermediate in the presence of Duke and Duchess over the night after their marriage.

Motion. First of all, the kindest Peter Pigva, what is speaking in the play? Then read the names of the actors, and then proceed to the distribution of roles.

Pigva. You see, the play is our deplorable comedy; The death of Pram and Fisby is depicted in it.

Motion. It must be a great thing and overhanded! Now, the kindest Peter Pigwa, do your actors on the list. Become, gentlemen, in a row.

Pigva. Discover the call. Nick Motok, Weaver!

Motion. Here! Tell me what role is meant and go on.

Pigvl. You, Nick Motok, is assigned the role of pyram.

Motion. And what is peirs? Lover or tyrant?

Pigva. A lover who killing himself because of love most the most important way.

Motion. What, for the performance of this role, tears will need? If I play, take care, listeners, eyes. I will make the stones to move and in some way cause universal condolences. Now further. I am mainly strong in the performance of Tirana roles. Jack I would play on Divo or any such as tuning and all crushing role.

"Wild cliffs, their shakes

The doors of the dunnov in me crushes.

From the chariot lumpy fub

Congratulates the acts of stupid fate. "

Here it is what is called wonderful and more beautifully what is not in the world! Now echoing the names of other actors. This is the reception of the Jaclovsky, purely tyrant. The lover speaks more complaints.

Pigva. Francis Dudka, Seller Inflatable Fur.

Dub. Peter Pigva, I am here.

Pigva. You have to take on the role of Fisby.

Dub. And what is Fisby? Wrong knight?

Pigva. This is a girl in love with femors.

Dub. No, make a favor, do not make me play a woman: I have already made your beard.

Pigva. It's nothing, you can play her mask. It will be implied to you as possible.

Motion. And if you can hide the beard under the mask, let me play fist. I will speak an amazingly thin voice. - Fispa, Fispa! - "Ah, Pirs, Dragging My lover! I am a Drawing Your Fesby, Dragging Your Lover."

Pigva. No, no, you have to play piram, and you are a twin, play fistby.

Motion. Oh well. Go on.

Pigva. Ruben Oter, tailor!

Otter. Here, Peter Pigva.

Pigva. You, Radan Otter, will have to play the mother of Fisby. Now Tom Sonya, Mednick.

Snout. Here, Peter Pigva.

Pigva. You will be the father of the pyrum, and I myself will be the father of Fisby. Bourv, joiner! Take on the role of a lion. That seems to be all the roles in the play are distributed.

Bourish And what, the role of a lion you have written? If it is written, give me it now, because I'm scary hard to memorize.

Pigva. You can play it without memorizing, because it only needs to roar.

Motion. Let me play a lion, I buried so much that I will make everyone listen to me. Yes, glow so that the duke himself will say: "Let him even fuck," let him sneak. "

Pigva. And if you wear too scary, you are overrun and the duchess, and its close, that he sneaks themselves. And this will be enough to have extended us all.

Everything. How to translate all of us? Us, sons of our mothers?

Motion. I agree, friends: if we confuse the lady, that he will lose their heads, he, of course, will not advise us to translate us. But I will wait for my voice to such an extent, the glow is so pleased that I will be taken for the glowing dove. I glow I Solovy.

Pigva. You can not play any other role except Pram, because the femors are a pleasant outfit, a man is so beautiful that it is better not to find it on the most clear summer day. He is a person canceled kind; Therefore, you should play a pram to the willy.

Motion. Well, try. And what beard will have to wear me for this role?

Pigva. What do you want.

Motion. I can grab it with a beard of straw color, and with dark orange, and with a crimson-red, and with a beard of the color of the French head, that is completely yellow.

Pigva. But, after all, many French heads are completely without hair; Consequently, you probably would have to play at all without a beard. Well, gentlemen, here are your roles. And I ask, I urged and begging you to learn them on a teeth to tomorrow night, and then, with a lunar radiance, to go with me in the palace forest, located in one mile outside the city. There we will make a rehearsal. Because, if we came together in the city, we would not get rid of the crowd of curious and our intention would be open. In the meantime, I, in the meantime, I will make a list of everything that does not take us for the presentation. I ask you, do not cheat me.

Motion. Make a rehearsal there will be more relevant, and rampant.

Pigva. Try to distinguish yourself. Farewell. The gathering is appointed at the Ducal Oak.

Motion. Okay, she was not! (Go).

Action second.

Forest Plisis Athens.

On the one hand included Fairy, on the other - Pok.

Pok. What's new, fairy? Where are you going?

Fairy. In the mountains and dollars,

But shrubs prickly

I porch carefree

Running the moon is ahead.

Me, Queen Faiwear,

Are not obstacles

Neither the pictures of shady parks,

Neither fire nor the water of the river.

And serve I diligently

Meadow green irney

Refreshing dew.

And his colorful flowers,

What's circle of adolescent

Bulk spill.

I need to collect several drops of dew here and, like pearls, bring them to the ear of every letter. Goodbye, ignorant of all spirits, - I have no time. Our queen, and with her and all elves, will now come here.

Pok. And our king celebrates this night here. Beware, the queen, do not show him on the eyes, because he is terribly annoyed and angry with the fact that a beautiful boy, kidnapped by the Indian king, still in a retinue. Baby Milagio never had no one. In envious Oberon, I would like it to be His Fajem and wandered with him on the dormant forests. She did not want to give up for anything, grows his flowers and can't catch him. Because of this, where they would now meet - in the grove, whether, in the meadow, at a pure source, with the radiance of bright stars - they have such a quarrel every time, that all elves in fear crawl into a cup of acorns And hide there.

Fairy. If I do not deceive your appearance and your whole look, you are cunning, plutish spirit, called roller rocon. This is how you scare rustic girls, shoot with cream milk, forcing you sometimes work a handmill, interfere with the mistress to shoot down the oil, you don't even give a drink with a different times, knocking up the night wanderers from the way and you are fighting their annoyance. For the same, who calls you Gobgoblin or the cutest post, you work for glory and deliver him all luck. You're point after all?

Pok. You were not mistaken, Fairy: I am this cheerful night tramp. I felt the Oberon, forcing him to smile, when, imitating the rusty of a young mare, I am inflated by a fat stallion, fueling the pea. Sometimes in the form of a baked apple I am climbing a mug of a mushroom, and if it looks like a drink, beat her on her lips and spill beer in her fabric. Even the wisestness of the aunt, telling the most deplorable of all the ages, sometimes takes me for a tripod bench, I am slipping from under what she sits on, and she, up with the legs flying to the floor, shouts: - "Ah! Ah!", And the cough between this is so choking it. Looking at this, the whole company snaps with laughter, sneezes and swear, that he never had anything funnier. Clean, however, comes here to Oberon.

Fairy. My queen goes. Oh, if he rather removed from here!

On the one hand, the Oberon includes, with his retinue, on the other - Titania with his own.

Oberon. Meeting during the lunar light with you, inexperienced Titania, - the meeting is far from pleasant.

Titania. Oh, envious Oberon here. Fairy, run from here! I renew from his society, as well as renounced his bed.

Oberon. Stop, insane, self-widen wife! Are I not a husband for you?

Titania. If so, then I must be your wife. But I know that you secretly flew from the country Fay, squatted whole days in the image of Corin near the Felida in love playing on the straw shirt and singing about her love. Why did you come here from the further limits of India? To attend with the marriage with the needle of your full-fledged, on the booths of a bunny amazon, the militant beloved! You came here to bestow their lies joy and happiness.

Oberon. How are you not ashamed, Titania, root me for my location to Ippolit, when I have a great passion of your child? Whether you starred at night I took him from the punctured perigen, didn't you make him break an oath given to the beauty of Egle, Ariadne and Antiop?

Titania. All this is one fiction, inspired by jealousy. Never from the very beginning of the summer, we neither on the hills, nor in the valleys, nor in the meadows, nor in the forests, nor the relaxes, running along the rocky lie, nor the blizzards of the river reeds, nor on the wax waves of the outskirts of the sea, have never succeeded Under the rustle of the wind, drive our dance without so that you do not upset our fun with our downtrend. As if in retaliation for volatile, the winds caused infectious fogs from the sea, which, surfactant to Earth, was overwhelmed with each river that they all opposed their coast. Because the bull was in vainly pulled his yoke, and the farmer was in vain then, bread was rotted, being still very green and not to live to the harvest. The hay rotes on the poured water meadows, and the crows are withering, tugging the fallen cattle. Celebrated for the rustic gaming grooves dragged themselves. There are no paths that appear in luxury greenery is also not visible, because no one does not prock them. Mortals are devoid of even earthly fun, no night is marked by either songs or games. Therefore, the lulman of the waters, the month, pale from anger, I impressed all the air to dampness so that the lack of colds was not felt. From this turmoil change the most seasons. The frozen frosts are falling on the heads of blooming scarlet roses, and the chin and the floe of the old winter, as it were, the mockery is decorated with a fragrant wreath of summer stencils. Spring, summer, abundant autumn fruits, harsh winter, as it were, exchanged the usual outfit. And the amazed world, although it who peers, does not know and now, which which. And all this string of evils is generated by our partners, we are their parents, their hedlemen.

Oberon. All this comes from you and depends on you everything. Why treat the titanium to your Oberon? And what do I ask you? Only tiny submenuble boy, so that I bring him to my fourth.

Titania. You will have to reconcile with this. If you are for this boy offered me all my magic country, I would not give it to you. His mother was mine priestess. As it happened, often, hidden by the fragrant air of India, she served me by the interlocutor, sat down with me on the yellow sand of Neptune and watched his eyes behind the traders and laughed, seeing how the sails from a voluptuous touch of air as shuffled and made very puzzled. And she, imitating them, - She was already pregnant in young people for a long time, - crawled on the ground, beautifully and quietly swaying in order to get me different baubles, and returned as if from a distant swimming with a rich goods. But she, giving birth to this child, being a mortal, died. From love for her, I will emerge her son and not part with him because of love with her.

Oberon. How long do you intend to stay in this forest?

Titania. Maybe before the end of the marriage festivals of Theze. If you want to warm the dances with us peacefully with us, pull out our fun - or with us. If you do not want, - avoid me, and I will avoid the terrain that you visit.

Oberon. Give me a boy, and I will go for you.

Titania. Not for all your magic kingdom. We leave here, fairies. If I stay at a robes, we will completely cut out (leaves with your retinue).

Oberon. Good, go. But do not get out of this forest, so far for this insult I do not humble you carefully. To me, kindty Do you remember how I once, sitting on the cape, listened to the singing of the siren, carried on the back of the dolphin? She sang so harmfully, so sweet that the raging sea subsided from the sounds of her voice. And not one asterisk, stringly departed from its sphere, so that only listen to this singing.

Pok. I remember.

Oberon. At that time, I saw, "but you could not see," Cupidon flew around the young month and earth. He chille into an excellent Vessel who reigned in the West, and put his arrow with such a force that she would seem to have a hundred thousand hearts. But I saw that the fiery arrow of a young Cupid was found in the chaste rays of a wet month, and the royal priestess, not at all filled, sailed past in virgin thoughts. I, however, noticed where Cupid arrows fell. She fell into a small western flower, formerly formed by dairy-white, but now from the love wound made purple. The girls call him "dustling love." Acquaint me this flower, my grass, I like it. Thanks to her juice, if they are anointed with a dream of a dream, a man or woman to madness falls in love with the first living creature, which he falls on his eyes. I serve me this flower and returning to him here before Leviafan succeeds to sailing alone only mile.

Pok. I am able to get out the whole globe in some minutes forty (out).

Oberon. If I get the juice of this grass, I will lose a minute when Titania falls out, and I will smell her eyelids. The first thing that will fall on her eyes after awakening, "be it lion, a bear, a wolf or ancor, a curious monkey or a fussy monkey," she starts haunting his passionate love, and I, before you take these spells from her eye - what can do Other grass, make her give me a group of it. But who is this here? I'm invisible. I overheard their conversation.

Demetrius enters, Elena.

Demetrius. I do not love you, so stop pursuing me. Where are Lizardr and beautiful Hermia? For that ... that she kills me, I will kill him. Did you say that they hid in this forest? And I also in it. So I got into this forest and angry for not finding my Hermia. Leave me, go, stop following me

Elena. Oh, a cruel magnet, you yourself attract me to yourself! And do not attract iron, because my heart is true as steel. Lost your attractive force, and I lick the opportunity for you to follow.

Demetrius. Do I exclude you, say that you are beautiful? On the contrary, I tell the essential truth that I do not love you, I can not love.

Elena. That is why I love you even stronger. I'm your dog. You see, Lee, Demetrius, the more you will beat me, the time I will become more gentle. Go to me, like with your dog, repel me with my legs, Bay me, neglect me, ruffie me, but only the doser to me, unworthy, follow you. What is the worst place in your love can I ask you? Your appeal with me, as with a dog, will be the greatest for me.

Demetrius. Do not expose my hate excessive test. I get sick when I see you.

Elena. And I am sick when I do not see you.

Demetrius. You are terribly in good kind of glory, going out for the city, going into the hands of anyone unlosestly to you and trusting the night, favorable love adventures, dirty supremes, sustained by solitude and desert terrain.

Elena. Your virtues will serve me to protect this treasure. For me, not the night when I can see your face, so I don't believe me at all that now night. In addition, this forest is not at all deserted, because in it the whole world is. Who dares to say that I am alone when I look at me the whole world?

Demetrius. Usat from you, hiding in the bushes and leave you for the extraction of animals.

Elena. Even with the fierce of the animals, the heart is not so ruthless, like yours. Sugges, if you want, then only legend will be distinguished: Apollo runs, and Daphne is chasing him; The dove pursues the hawk, the humble Lan is trying to catch a tiger. The effort is completely unnecessary when the courage turns into flight, and the cowardice runs after it.

Demetrius. I do not want to more listen to your curses, let me. Or, if you still aggress me to pursue me, know in advance that I am here, in the forest, will carry you a cruel insult.

Elena. Alas, and in the temples, and in the city, and in the fields - you everywhere insult me. You shame, demetry, your resentment will disgrace my floor. We are not men and can't, as they, to seek love with weapons in their hands. We must take care of us, we are not created for courtship. I go for you, by all means, I, if I have to see death from a passionately beloved hand, the hell is done for me by paradise (leaves him.)

Oberon. Comfort, nymph. Before he comes out of this forest, you will run away from him, and he will hurt you with his love.

Po returns.

Well, wanderer, did you get a flower?

Pok. Here it is.

Oberon. Come on. I know the corner of the shore, the wondered by wild Tmin, the letter and hesitant. It is almost like a tent, autonomed with fragrant hopper, fragrant roses and a beautiful rosehip. There, branched by games and dangling songs, Titania usually spends a part of the night in a dream. There, the snake dumps his skirt with himself, and this clothing is spacious enough for an elf. Juice of this flower splashes into her eyes and she will overflow the most ridiculous fantasies. Take you and you are a particle of a flower, finding in the forest of a young man who neglects the love of a beautiful Athenian girl, and the juice of his eyes to him, but only when the first thing he should see will be. Looking, try to arrange so that he fell into love with her even stronger than she in him, and come back to me before the first cocks.

Pok. Be quenched, your servant will fulfill everything as follows.

Another part of the forest.

Included titaniums with his retinue.

Titania. Well, now drive a dance under the magic song, then delete a third of minutes. Let some kill the worms in the sprakes of roses; The other is fighting with bats, to get the skin from their web-hearth wings, and from this material to sew shirts for small elfs; Third let alone be distilled off the restless owl, screaming all night, looking at our beautiful elves. Fit me singing, and then go to fulfill your duties. Give me a rest.

1st Fairy (sings).

Evil motley echids

With languages \u200b\u200bsplit;

Gada harmful, creeping,

Peaceful sleep of Tsaritsa OUR.

With our song with a lullaby,

Sweeping with us:

"Hush, Little Baby, Do not Say a Word!"

So that neither evil nor the chit

To the queen did not touch

And until the morning sleep-wizard

She was not licking and caressed.

Spiders, - and Tonogi,

That kostov depict

And cosmodo-poisonous

Worms that reptile

On the ground a sickway,

Dream Beauty Titania,

1st Fairy. Well, now rather from here! Everything is right here. One of us, however, let him remain and worshiped on the sidelines (the fairy leaves. Titania is sleeping. Oberon appears).

Oberon (squeezing the flower juice on the titanium). Fall in love passionately in what you will see immediately after awakening. Love then and Tomber. Whether it is a beaver or a cat, or a bear, or a leopard, or a bristly boar, he, when you wake up, will introduce you to your beloved. I'm going to dream when something nasty (leaves. Lizardr and Hermia appear).

Lizardr. Uglessly mine, you tired of this wanderings in the forest. I confess, I got off from the road. If you wish, Hermia, a rest. I will wait here for an hourly dawn.

Hermia. Be how you please, Lizandr. Looking over your bed, and I scant my head here to this hillock.

Lizardr. Alone and the same Kochka will serve for both of us a pillow. One heart, one bed, two chest and one loyalty.

Hermia. No, good Lizardr, I ask you, Lagge, my dear, while, away, do not lie so close.

Lizardr. Oh, my beloved, understand it in the most innocent sense. Love should understand the words of love and treat him trusting: I wanted to say that my heart is so closely related to yours that they can be adopted for one; That both our breasts are asked by an oath that, although there are two of them, - loyalty is alone. Therefore, do not refuse me in the bed near you. Believe, Hermia, this bed will not be defiled by a lie.

Hermia. You, Lizandr, play with words perfectly.

Lizardr. I have fallen a scary curses of my temper and my pride, if Hermia was thinking to say that Lizandr lies.

Hermia. But, my dear, of love and from the courtesy of Lagged all the same way. Such a temporary disconnection required by modesty may be very suitable for the virtuous young man and for the girl. Lagged there, my good friend, and late night. You will not change your love to the end of your dear life!

Lizardr. "Amen, Amen!" I answer the beautiful this prayer. When my loyalty disappears, let life disappear ... I'm lying here. Yes, it will help you sleep to find a complete soothing!

Hermia. Half of this desire and somnight of the eyelids who expressed it (both fall asleep).

Included

Pok. I walked around the whole forest and did not find the Athenian, in front of which I should heal the love strength of this flower. What kind of darkness, what silence! Who is this? On it is the clothes of the Athenian. This, as my lord said, he negleces the Athenian girl. So she sleeps like killed, on raw and dirty land. She did not even dreamed even to lie down near this is an inappropriate, heartless man. Wait, nevezha, lick on your eyes all of these Char. Oh, love when he wakes up, do not allow him to sleep with his eyelids, wake up when I leave. And I need to rush to Oberon (out).

Demetrius rises, Elena.

Elena. Stop, cute demetri! Better I'll kill me.

Demetrius. Loose! Do not stick to me like that.

Elena. And will you leave me in such a topic? Oh, do not do it!

Demetrius. Stay here at your own fear. I want to go one and leave (runs away).

Elena. I completely got out of the strength from this crazy chase. The more I beg, the less I see him sympathy. Where would you rest, Hermia, you're happy. It has wonderful, charming eyes. Why are they so bright? Not from your own moisture tears? If, if this, my glimpse would be brighter, as they incomparably the most often wrapped in this moisture. No, no, I must be a dirt, like a bear; No wonder the animals came across towards me to meet me to side. Therefore, it is not surprising that Demetriy runs away from me when I'm so scary. As the same insidious and false mirror, when it assures me, I can help with Hermia. Who is it? Lizardr on Earth! He died or just sleeping? I see no blood or wound. Lizardr, are you alive? Wake up!

Lizardr (waking up). For you, I will even go to the fire, Elena, you just like transparent. Nature shows its power, giving me the opportunity through your breast to see your heart. Where is Demetri? And as worthy of carrying this disgusting name to die from my sword!

Elena. Not to say that, Linetre, do not say! What do you care about what he loves your Hermia? What do you have from this? After all, Hermia still loves you. Be satisfied with this.

Lizardr. Satisfied with Hermia? No, miserable moments held with her, I am boring. I do not like Hermia now, and Elena. Who does not exchange the crows on the dove? The will of a man manages his mind, and the mind tells me that you are incomparably worthy of love. All grieving until time is not ripe. So I was still too young, so I did not get to the mind. But now I have achieved full development Human, the mind was made by the head of my will and leads me to your eyes, in which I see wonderful love of love read in the luxurious book of love!

Elena. Why was I born? Why did she live to such an evil ridicule? What do I deserve contempt from you? Isn't it too pretty that I could never and can not get from a gentle glance demetry? And you still kill my misfortune. So contemptuous courting you offend me, offend cruelly. Goodbye. I confess, I thought you were much noble. Surely for the fact that the woman is rejected by one, it must be insulting from the other (outgoing).

Lizardr. She did not see Hermia. Night, helicate, sleep here and never approach Lizandru. As the satiety of sweets gives rise to the stomach of the terrible disgust, or how the heresses are hated in the eyes of the man, especially when he was deceived, so you, the guilt of my suggestion, my heresy, be haired for everyone, and more than for someone else. Let all their forces go to love and on devotion to Elena; I will be her slave (out).

Hermia (wakes up). Help, help me, Lizandr! Turn the snake who brightened to my chest. Oh, shy! Oh, what a terrible dream! Looking, Lizardr: I shall with fear. It seems to me that the snake sucks my heart, and you, looking at her ill neighborhood, sit quietly and just pour themselves. Lyzandr! How not it? Lyzandr, my Lord! Do not hear, left, no word, no sound! Oh, where are you? Remember if you hear! I pray you with love, answer! I almost lost feelings from fear. Not! I see now that you are not proximity. Or now I will find you, or die (out).

Action third.

Titania sleeps. Included: Pigva, Burav, Basis, Dudk, Float and Otter.

The foundation. Are we on your face?

Pigva. All, all! And the glorious place is for our rehearsal. This lawn will be our scene, the bushes of the hawthorn of our restroom, we will be depicting everything exactly as you will be depicted in front of the duke.

The foundation. Peter Pigva!

Pigva. What do you, restless teach?

The foundation. In our comedy "Pirs and Fissab" there is something that others will not like to taste. First, the femors are forced to grab the sword, to kill themselves, there are no such spectacles of the Baryni. What do you say to it?

Snout. This, swear Blessed Virgin, really fear how scary.

Otter. I think suicide when everything is over, we will have to release.

The foundation. In no way! I invented how to fix everything. Cover the prologue, and let the prologue hint that we will not harm our swords that the femors are not really killed; And also for greater calm, tell them that I am playing a pyrum, not at all the femors, but a weak base. It will save the spectators from any fear.

Pigva. Well, composure. Just how do we write it: six or eight-stranded verses?

The foundation. No, it is better to add two feet, let them be eight, and he is an eight-sour.

Snout. And the lather lion is not afraid?

Otter. I'm afraid of this. However, we will see.

The foundation. We, gentlemen, must discuss all this pretty. God forbid to bring lion to the society Baryn! This is a terrible thing, because there is no bird of prey a terrible lion, especially living. Therefore, we must take such a consideration.

Snout. So the other prologue would say that he is not a real lion.

The foundation. No, it is necessary that the audience knew his name so half of his face peeking out due to the lion's neck. And if you need to say something to correct this disadvantage, so that's what: "Masseman, or beautiful madam, I wished, or demanded, or asked if you were not afraid, did not flutter, for I live I am responsible for yours. If you think that I was here a real lion, grief to me, the great grief! No, the same thing I have a creature, such as everyone! " Then let him call himself by name and says straight that I am a joiner.

Pigva. Excellent, so we will do. But there are two more difficult things. First: How to enter moonlight into the room? - You know that femors and FPSBI are found in the light of the month.

Bourish And night, during the presentation of our comedy there will be a moon.

The foundation. To serve a calendar, calendar, and find, lunaries will be the night or not!

Pigva. Moon.

The foundation. If so, leave only an open window in a large room, where our presentation will happen, and the month can be shone in the window.

Pigva. Perhaps, and so. And not something, let someone come to the knitting black and lantern, let it say that he came to the image of the role or to represent a monthly light. But then there is still another difficulty. We need a wall in a large room, because it is known to legend that femors and fisbi talked through the crack in the wall.

Bourish Well, the wall is in the room you do not inject, what do you say to it, the basis?

The foundation. Well, someone can portray the wall. Melt only his little to designate the wall with lime, clay or plaster, and let him hold his fingers like this. Through this slit and will be twisted between themselves with femors and fisbi.

Pigva. If it is settled, everything is settled. Well, all those born from the mother, sit down and proceed to the rehearsal. Pears, you start. When you speak your role, go to these bushes. Let the same makes each if it requires his role.

It enters and stops in the depths of the scene.

Pok. What is this nonsense, thicker so close to the lie of the beautiful Queen? That's so thing, preparing the view! I will be a spectator and, if necessary, even an actor.

Pigva. Speak, peirs! Fisby, come!

Pears. Breathing colors stumbled, you are weak ...

Pigva. Not stumbled, and fragrant.

Pears. Breathing color fragrant unpleasant

When to compare it with the breath of the wonderful fistby.

Having a bit

And I get back to you from there! (Goes out).

Pok. Of all the femors in the world, did anyone see this? (Leaving him).

Fisby. Now it's my turn?

Pigva. Of course, yours. You must understand that he leaves then to find out which he heard a voice there, and will now come back.

Fisby. Shine pears that whiteness is

Know with Lilia and Rosa Rudy!

Brave young man, miley from people

And faithful, as the most faithful spear, which did not hurt,

What does it mean to tired, Ile to stumble,

I will get off at the grave of Nina.

Pigva. At the grave Nina. Full, kind! Talk it to you too early; You answer these words to the pyrum. You say all your role of a spell - and replicas, and everything else. Come in, femors. Your replica is already said; After all, she in words: - "fatigue does not know."

(Enter the base, with a donkey head on the shoulders).

Fisby. Oh, faithful in the same way as the most faithful of the horses,

Who never tiredness knows.

Pears. Only for you, the femors want to be so.

Pigva. Oh, it's terrible! Monsterly! The unclean forces are joking and here with us jokes. Pray, gentlemen! Bat, gentlemen! Help!

Everyone will be killed in fear.

Pok. I'm yours. I pursue you on the swamps, at the plates, too, bone spiny shrubs. I will first take the sight of the horse, then the dogs, the borov, then the headless bear, then the fire, to laugh, bark, grunt, roar and burn, like a horse, dog, bors, bear and fire (out).

The foundation. Why did they rush from here from here? Joke is that to scare me?

Returns fig.

Snout. Oh, the basis, what a transformation with you! What do I see in your shoulders (go)?

The foundation. What do you see? Must be, you see an outfit head on your own, you see?

Pigva returns.

Pigva. Oh, the basis, help, help you Lord! You are completely spoiled (out).

The foundation. I understand their trick: they want to fool me and, if they succeed, scare. But what would they do there, I will not be touched from here. I will take it here, tighten the song so that everyone heard that I was not afraid of anything (sings).

And black thrush, with a printed beak,

And the rooster with a short feathers ...

Titania (waking up). What kind of cherub is disturbing my sleep on the bed of flowers?

Sparrow or Shchegglenok,

Even the gentry cuckoo,

On a cheeky cry of which

A rare husband will not respond

Objection: "You are lying."

Because, in fact, anyone will contact such a stupid bird who will lean the bird in a lie, no matter how much it screamed "Ku-ku!"

Titania. I ask you, handsome, sleeping anything else. Your voice has completely fascinated my hearing, and your image captured my vision. With the first look at you, the mighty beauty of your spell makes me against the will say and even swear that I love you.

The foundation. It seems to be madam that you have no thorough reason for it. However, speaking in truth, reasonable foundation and love rarely get together at present. And it is very regrettable if some helpful neighbor will not work out to reconcile them between him. See that I am at the case of a wizard.

Titania. You are the same smart as beautiful.

The foundation. Well, no, not so! I'm neither one or the other. If I had enough so much mind to get out of this forest, it would have been enough for my personal use.

Titania. Oh, do not want to get out of here! Will-nilly, and you will stay here. I am spirit, and not unimportant: in my possessions eternal summer. And I love you, stay with me! I will give you an elves in service. They will find for you to find diamonds, in the deep depths of the earth, will sing during your sleep on fresh colors. I will make the mortal shell before the thin and mild, and you will flute like a air spirit. Easy peas, web, mole, mustard grains!

Four elf includes: fragrant peas, cobweb, mole and mustard grains.

1st elf. I'm here!

2nd elf. And I!

3rd elf. N I!

4th elf. And I!

Everything. Where do you get to fly?

Titania. Be kind to this Mr. and kind with him; Put, download around him during his walks, feed it with apricots, purple grapes, zedenyi figami and mulberry, kidnap their chants for him, have wild bees away from their legs wax on candles and light these candles with fiery eyes and illite my way of my way Milago with a waste of it to sleep and with awakening. Open paint wings from butterflies and take them the rays of the month from the sleepy century. Welcome him, elves!

1st elf. Like you, mortal!

2nd elf. And mine!

3rd elf. And mine!

4th elf. And mine!

The foundation. From the heart I am grateful to you, a durable elf. Your name, most marked?

1st elf. Pautinc.

The foundation. Very glad, the kind Mr. Pautinka, to meet you shorter. If you cut a finger, bother to resort straight to you. And your most married?

2nd elf. Sweet pea.

The foundation. I ask you, the kindest Mr. fragrant polka dot, to fold the word for me with Mrs. Skin, your mother, and Mr. Pod, your father. I am very glad to meet with you. I also ask you to tell me your name?

3rd elf. Mustard grains.

The foundation. I know your condescension, the courtesy of Mother mustard grains, I know perfectly. The vile of this gigid roast beylf did not minor the Lords like you. Believe me, familiarity with you has repeatedly squeezed tears from my eyes. Very glad, the kind mustard seeds, to meet you are still shorter.

Titania. Serve and him, as his Mr. Drive it to my arbor. The moon looks somewhere tearfully, and if she cries, then every little flower is crying, grieving on someone lost chastity. Open the tongue of my tongue is ridden and lead it in full silence.

Another part of the forest.

Included Oberon

Oberon. It's curious to know me, whether the titania woke up and someone who was the first to get to her eyes and to whom she had to fall in love with madness.

Included

So my sent. Well, the pursuit, what pants did you do in this magic forest?

Pok. My queen fell in love with the monster. While the snoekonko, he firmly slept in a gazebo dedicated to her, several overannants were gathered, immense artisans, because of the pumping bread workers working in Athenian lavs, and began to make a comedy rehearsal, which was conceived to submit on the wedding day of the Great Teze. Saying your monologue, the most brainless of these boobs, the most unfit from all of this bastard, which represented the piram in their play, went into the bushes, and I, using this case, turned his head into the donkey. He then followed him to answer the fesby, and he again performed on the scene. Here, like wild geese, envied by a crawling hunter or as if redhead tanks, who suddenly jerk with a cry, are divided into separate detachments and, like insane, dissect air, all comrades seeing the acting Piros, rushed from him and, sneaking each other, shouted: - "Robbery ! " And they began to call on someone from the Athenian residents to help themselves. The head of them is already weak, and now from a strong fear of having lost it finally, they armed against themselves even soused items; A thranger and rose robs are torn on them, one breaks off the sleeve, from the other, they break off the hat, constantly depriving the pants, who did not even think resist. So, by blowing on them insane fear, I drove them from here, holding only one loaf here, on whose shoulders I put a donkey head. And then it happened so that the titanium woke up and immediately fell in love with the donkey.

Oberon. Everything happened more successful than I expected. And you smeared you lovely the eyelids of Athineyan, as I ordered you?

Pok. Made and this. I found him sleeping; Not far from it was the Athenian; He will certainly see her when he wakes up.

Enter: Demetrius and Hermia.

Oberon. We will go to the side. Is this the most accminean?

Pok. The woman is that, but the man is not the one.

Demetrius. Well, why do you repel someone who loves you so much? So evil can only speak with the worst your enemy.

Hermia. I only scold you, about how you can, you deserve more worst, because I'm afraid, you did not give me a reason for the curses. If at a time when Lizandr slept, you killed him and the one plunged into the blood of the knee, the loading into it even deeper, kill me. The sun itself was not so true of the day as he me. Would he leave Sleeping Hermia? Early, I will believe that you can drill the whole globe through and what a month to annoy your brother midday sun, slip into this hole to antipodes. You certainly killed Lizandra: so dedicated, so fiercely can watch the murderer.

Demetrius. As the murdered, so I watch and I, pierced through the merciless of your cruelty. You, the murderer, look as light and clear how the brilliant Venus in the sky.

Hermia. This will not help this Lisandra. Where is he? Oh, kind demet, return it to me!

Demetrius. I would rather give his corpse to my dogs.

Hermia. Bare from me, dog! Away, dog! You brought me out of virgin patience. So you killed him? Be forever crossed out of the list of people! Oh, at least once, tell us the truth, tell her at least for me. Not daring to look at him while he wake up, you killed him sleepy. Oh, what kind of feat! Snakes and echids are capable of such a valiant feat. And he was made by Echidna, because she had never been so for his unknown tongue.

Demetrius. You pour your anger about the error. I am not climbing the blood of Lizandra and, as far as I know, he did not die at all.

Hermia. Repeat me, begging you that he is healthy and unharmed.

Demetrius. And what was your benefit, if I could even say that?

Hermia. The benefit that you never see me more than me; Your presence is hateful! Lee Lizardr or died, do not expect anything from me (out).

Demetrius. Chasing her when she is in such an accurate mood, useless; Therefore, a little a little here. The burden of grief increases the debt that the untenable debtor-sleep did not pay him. Therefore, if I will wait for it here, he can pay me at least a particle of this debt (falls asleep and falls asleep).

Oberon. What have you done! You made a mistake in the most implacably, squeezing the love juice on the eyes in fact loving man. Your mistake inevitably turns true love in a false, and the false will not make true.

Pok. Fate turned out to be stronger than me. She is to blame: after all, one loving invariably accounts for a million trainees who violate one oath for another.

Oberon. Faster winds around the whole forest and finding Elena Athens. She, poor and pale, is very sick of love, the sighs of love beat blood from her face. Her husband here is some kind of deception, and, in the meantime, charming to her arrival of the boy's eye.

Pok. Run Run! Look, I am flying faster than the arrows, a pushed Tatarin (runs away).

Oberon. The juice of the bugger flower climbed by the boiled arrow, penetrate his eyes. Let when he sees the girl in love with him, she will shine for him as bright as Venus in the sky. When you wake up, and she will be near you, ask her healing.

Po returns.

Pok. The lord of the magical of our country, Elena close, and with her that young man who introduced me in a mistake. He prayes that she loved him. I will admire their insane comedy. Oh, how stupid are mortals!

Oberon. We will go to the side. Their conversation will wake demetry.

Pok. And then he will take care of two times. That will be fun! Similar confusion - my passion!

Enter: Lizandr and Elena.

Lizardr. Why do you think that I just want to seek your love? Didn't the mockery or contempt expressed someday tears? Look: I cry when I swear in love. And the oaths that are born in this way, they already testify to their sincerity. Having such a wrestling in sincerity, how can my love for you seem contempt?

Elena. You are more and more showing your cunning. When is it true kills the truth, what can be terrible than such ads of the sacred struggle? Your assurances should be treated with Hermia. Do you want to leave her? Try to find out the weight of the oath with the help of the oath, and they will not know anything. If you put your oaths in one cup, and the oaths to each other, all will be one weight, all the same lightweight as fairy tales.

Lizardr. I was a madman when I swear.

Elena. In my opinion, you, leaving her, and now insane.

Lizardr. Demetrius loves her, and you are not.

Demetrius (waking up). Oh, Elena! goddess! nymph! perfection! deity! What, oh, my love, compare and your wonderful eyes? The most crystals next to them seem muddy. Oh, as charming mature, those two cherries, of which are your mouth! Even a clean frozen whiteness, even the burnt eastern winds, the snow on a high brand becomes a black crow when you raise your hand. Oh, let me cut this queen of the purest whiteness, this printing of bliss!

Elena. What vitality! Oh, hell! I see that you are fun to insult me \u200b\u200bfor the sake; I know that you both hate me, but it's not enough to you, you still need to mock me. According to you people, but if you were in fact people, you wouldn't like a decent girl, you would not assure it, I would not have a love in love, would not exaggerate my advantages when I am quite sure that you hate me . You competed by challenging the love of Hermia: and now compete, mocking on Elena. What, in fact, a wonderful feat, what a valiant act by ridicule to cause tears to the eyes of a poor girl! No decent person wants, so offend the girl, will not bring it down, the poor, from the patience - and all this for the sake of just fun.

Lizardr. You are cruel, Demetrius. Stop being so. After all, you love Hermia. You know this and you yourself, I know, and from the whole soul, from the bottom of my heart I give up my share in the love of Hermia. Give me and you are your love in love, which I love now, which I will love to death.

Elena. Never mockery did not spend such a variety of unnecessary words!

Demetrius. Leave, Lizardr, Hermia with me, I don't need it. If I have ever loved her, all this love has passed. My heart was just temporarily stuck in Belie, but now it returned to his real home hearth, to Elena to stay there forever.

Lizardr. This is not true, Elena.

Demetrius. Do not slandering the conscience, which you yourself do not know, or you will pay expensive for it. Look, your beloved goes here. You are the road, and not Elena.

Germina is included.

Hermia. Dark night, taking the ability to see eye, enhances the ear susceptibility; Relaxing vision, it in return enhances the power of hearing. I did not look for you, Lizandr. Hearing is great for this thanks to him - led me here on the sound of your voice. But why did you leave me so ruthless?

Lizardr. Why stay to those who love to leave?

Hermia. What kind of love could make Lizandra get away from me?

Lizardr. Lyubov Lizandra, who did not allow him to stay, - the love of Beauty Elena, absorbing the night is stronger than all these fiery points, all these are the eyes of the sky. Why do you find me? Unless, seeing that I was not, you did not guessed that I made me forced me to have a hatred that I dare to you?

Hermia. Can not be! You say not what you think.

Elena. And she! And she, too, with them in conspiracy. I see now: all three you have conspited to play this feigned comedy to rummage. Verger Hermia, shameless of all Athenian girls! And you are in conspiracy, and you agreed so nightly mock me, along with them! Surely all the dreams that we tried to each other, all the vows sister sister, all the watches we spent together, watches, forced us to scold the rapid time for separating us, really all this is forgotten - and school friendship, and children's innocence ? Like two skillful goddesses, Hermia, we created our needles the same flower but the same pattern, sitting on one pillow, both singing the same song in the same tone as if our hands , hearts, voices and thoughts belonged not to two creatures, but one. So we grew, like a double cherry, seemingly divided, but, despite this separation, still the component of one whole. Like two bodies loving each other on one stem, we represented two bodies, but one heart. We were like two Geroldic shields crowned with one helmet and belonging to a person alone. And you, entering the union with men, you want to break the old one's love to rummage over a poor friend. No, a woman and friendship do not do that! For this, the same as me, all our gender renewes on you, although only I am insulted.

Hermia. I am surprised by an angry your speech. I'm not over you, - you mock me, it seems you.

Elena. Did you dissuade Lisandra in a mock to pursue me, overclock my eyes, my beauty? Didn't you and another, in love with you, just, as if a dog that pushed me to the nurse, make me goddess, nymph, Divine, incomparable insignificant, heavenly? Why does he say that one hates? Why and Lizandr reverses his love for you, is still so strong, and imposes it to me? Because you taught him, and he does it with your consent. Or I'm not so beautiful as you are not so charming, not so happy, but on the contrary, it's scary, because I myself love, but I am not mutually loved; It is a suffering that it should not be called.

Hermia. I do not understand what you want to say.

Elena. Oh, continue to pretend to be distressed and serious, keep it up to me behind your backs of the faces and exchange signs! Continue the adorable this task! This junction, played so successfully, will go to the chrifted chronicle. If you were at least a spark of compassion, nobility or knowledge of decency, you didn't make me the subject of such fun! Farewell! In part, I myself am to blame; But death or separation will soon be fixed.

Lizardr. Wait, cute Elena, listen to my excuse. Oh, Adorable Elena, my love, my life, my soul!

Elena. Perfectly!

Hermia. My dear, stop mocking like that.

Demetrius. If she does not build, I will make it observe the force.

Lizardr. Your power will affect me as little as her requests. Your threats are so powerless as her molly weak. Elena, love you! I swear life that I love! I swear to what is ready to lose to prove that he lies the one who dares to say that I do not like you.

Demetrius. And I say that I love you more than he is capable of love.

Lizardr. If you say so, expove the sword and prove the justice of your words.

Demetrius. This minute; We go.

Hermia. What does all of this mean?

Lyzandr. Away, Ethiopka!

Demetrius. Full, full! You break only for the species, just pretending you want to go after me. At the same time you will not go, because you are a coward.

Lizardr. Top from me, cat, burdock! Let, rubbish, or I will shoot you, like a snake.

Hermia. Why did you turn with me so severely? Why, honey, are you so cruel?

Lizardr. What is your cute? Away, Blacksaya Tatarka, away, away, disgusting the drug! Away, deadly poison!

Hermia. Are you kidding!

Elena. So he is joking, like you.

Lizardr. Demetrius, I will restructure this word to you.

Demetrius. I wanted to have proof rising, because I see how even weak bonds can hold you. I do not believe in your word.

Lizardr. Why do you want: so that I hit her, inflicts her wound, killed? Although I hate her, but I will not do such evil yet.

Hermia. What evil maybe there is a stronger than your hatred for me?! You hate me? For what? Oh, the gods, what is this news, my cute? Isn't I Hermia? Aren't you Lisandr? I am also good as it was. No further as today's night you still loved me. Meanwhile, threw the same night. Why did you threw me? Oh, do not allow this, gods! Surely all this is not a joke?

Lizardr. Not at all, swearing life. I say this so that you will never see you already. Therefore, leave all the hopes, all questions; Nothing may be more undoubtedly. I hate you and love Elena, I'm not joking at all.

Hermia. Oh, grief! Cooked snake! Worm, devouring flowers! The thief of my love, why did you get up at night and kidnap me my beloved heart, Elena?

Elena. Better and better! You have no modesty, nor the maiden shyness, no sparkness. Is it so nice to pull out such uks from my humble mouths? You shake, you shame, the pretender, a doll on the springs!

Hermia. I doll on the springs? why? So that's all this means! Now understand. She forced him to pay attention to his height and on my and captured him with his high height. You because you grew up in his location, that I am so small that I am very carlitsa. But the luxurious May tree, no matter how small I was, - yes, no matter how small I was, I still, I'm not so, so as not to get your eyes to the nails.

Elena. Although you, gentlemen, you need to kill me, but, I beg you, do not allow it to fight. I'm not at all evil, not grumpling, I am quite a girl by timidity. Do not allow her to beat me. You can, perhaps, think that I am gliting with her, as she is somewhat lowering me with growth.

Hermia. Lower! Again! Hear?

Elena. Cute Hermia, do not be so cruel. I always loved you, Hermia, always kept your secrets, never changed it. Only this time, from the love of Demetrius, told him about your escape in this forest. He rushed after you, and I followed him from love. But he drove me from here, threatened to nail, trample me with his legs, even kill. And now, if you let me go back with my madness back to Athens and I will not more follow you. Let me go! You see, as I am intense, as stupid.

Hermia. Stay! Who keeps you?

Elena. Stupid my heart that I leave here.

Hermia. With Lizandr?

Elena. With Demetrius.

Lizardr. Do not be afraid, Elena, she will not touch you.

Demetrius. Of course, courtesy, not touched, although you were for one with her.

Elena. It is likely when it becomes angry, it becomes scary zadorn and grumpled; She and at school constantly fought. Although she is small, but scary quick-tempered.

Hermia. Again small! All Mala, yes Mala! Why do you allow her so I need to mock me? Let me go to her!

Lizardr. Won, hence, dwarf! Won pluging, created from grass, interfering with children's growth! Away, glass bead, underpowing acorn!

Demetrius. You are already too helpful regarding a woman neglecting your services. Leave her alone; Do not dare to talk about Elena, do not dare to defend, because you will pay expensive if you gave way to her like a shadow!

Lizardr. Now that she does not hold me, go after me if you dare. Let's see who has more rights to Elena, you or me!

Demetrius. For you? No, I will go with you next (go).

Hermia. All this, madam, your business. Stop here, do not go!

Elena. I do not trust you and do not want to stay in your opposite society. To fight, your hands are more more than mine, but for the flight my feet is longer (runs away).

Hermia. I do not know what to say from surprise (runs away for Elena).

Oberon. That's what your mistakes took. It may be one of the everlasting misses, and maybe conscious disgrace.

Pok. Believe, the king of disembodied spirits, I was mistaken. After all, you said that I recognize him on the clothes of Athenaanpna, and in error I am not to blame. If I splashed the flower juice on the eyelids of Athenian, then even glad about it, because the quarrel is very funny.

Oberon. You see, lovers are looking for places for the fight. Hurry. Thicken still shadow of the night; Now the clouds are the starry sky black, like Aheron, fog and the intelligent rivals so that they could not go. Teasing by evil ridicule The demetry by the voice of Lizandra, then Lizandra was a voice demetra, distract them from each other until the lead legs and heavy wings would not catch sleep on their eyelids, this master to mad death. Then, on the eyes of Lisandra, this is a plant; The juice from it has the power to destroy any illusion and return the usual ability to see their eyes. When they wake up, the whole confusion will seem to them with a dream, a ghostly vision, and the lovers will return back to Athens, making an unit of the unit of death to the very death. And I, while you are busy with this, I will go to the queen, I will drop the Indian boy with her; They can then destroy the chairs that make her love for the monster, and then the world reigns between all.

Pok. We, the magical Mis Lord, must complete all this rather, because the rapid Dragons of the nights are already cutting the clouds and the harbinger of Aurora has already appeared, with the approach of which everything, then, there is a wandering, shadows run home on the cemetery. All the devotees of the curse of the soul, sorcerer at the intersections and in the waters, have already lightened to their diesel beds. From fear so that the day did not see their shame, they voluntarily expelled themselves from the limits of daylight and rekwit themselves forever with an impenetrable darkness of the night.

Oberon. But we are the souls of another kind: I am often played with a pet favorite and, like a forester, I can wander around the groves, even at a moment, when the eastern, the fire-red gates are expanding and throwing wonderful, blessed rays their own on Neptune, gold his saline, green waves . But still hurry, finish everything before dawn (out).

Pok. In villages and in cities

Everyone is afraid of me.

I will become blind, drive

And there I am here.

Yes, Rod, Cracker Goblin,

That there is them, then here.

Here one is already here!

Lizardr is included.

Lizardr. Where are you demeterry? Draw!

Pok. Here, rascal! My sword is naked, I'm ready! What are you somewhere?

Lizardr. MiG wanted about you.

Lok. So hurry to place more advantageous than me (Lizardr leaves, as if following the voice).

Give demetry.

Demetrius. Ey-Hey, Lizandr, come again! Speak you, fugitive, speaking, coward where you ran away! Speak! Hinge somewhere in the bush? So where did you hide?

Pok. A coward that exalting his bravery to the most stars, you must have been saying that you want to fight, and you are not. Come out, scoundrel, come out, boys! I will drive you Ryget. Out against you the sword means just to touch.

Demetrius. Are you here?

Pok. Follow me. There is no place to experience our courage (out).

Lizardr returns.

Lizardr. He turns out to be all ahead and everything causes me. I reached the place where he called, and his trace was heated. Round easier for me. No matter how quickly I chased him, he fled from me even faster. And so I somehow got on a scary outdoor road. Rest here. Oh, a bright day, come rather (falls). As soon as your grayish light appears in the sky, I will find demetry and I will find him (falling asleep).

Pole and Demetriy return.

Pok. Hey hey, panty! What are you not going?

Demetrius. Wait for me if you have enough courage. You're all running away from me, all change the place, nowhere dare to stop and look at me right in the face. Where are you now?

Pok. Come here! I'm here.

Demetrius. Will not go. You seem to be laughing at me, but you will be expensive to pay me for it if I manage to see your face under the lunar light. Now go to your expensive. Fatigue makes me measure my growth on this cold bed. But with dawn wait for me (falls and falls asleep).

Elena enters.

Elena. Oh, night, oh, infinitely boring, long, troubling night! Reduce your clock. Sit down in the east, the express ray so that I could return to Athens in the daylight and leave here those I, poor, so befit. Sleep, sometimes clouling even the defendants of the sadness, kidnapped me at my time (I go down and falls asleep).

Pok. As long as three here; Need one more - two people of each floor will be four! But it goes and she, excited and sad. Plutovat, Cupid, when he brings poor women to such madness.

Germina is included.

Hermia. I never got tired so, did not happen so sad; He squeezed from the dew, scratched the thorn spikes, I not only can not go, but even crawled further. Feet will not obey my will. Rest here before dawn. Oh, heaven, save Lizandra if opponents really fight! (Falls asleep and falls asleep).

Pok. Tempered on Earth and sleep firmly. And your eyes, a gentle lover, I will heaile this means (squeezes the juice of the plant on the eyes of Lizandra). When you wake up, you will still be admired by the eyes of your own beloved. Thus, with your awakening, the famous rustic saying is justified with anything: when Jack has Jenny, everything will go to his own way, and when a person again is his mare, everything will be fine (goes away and the rest are sleeping).

The fourth action.

Included: accompanied by elves, titanium and base. For them Oberon, remaining invisible in depth.

Titania. Come here, sit on it snapped with flowers. I will face your adorable lines, to remove the roses. Your smooth, soft head, a gap, my joy, your wonderful, long ears.

The foundation. Where is fragrant polka dot?

Sweet pea. Here.

The foundation. Pray my head, an adorable flower. And where is Mr. Pautinka?

Pautinc. Here.

The foundation. Mr. Pautinka, a kindest gentleman, take your weapon, kill me that a red bobby bee that I sat down on top of the wicker, and bring me, my kindest, honey sonya. However, my dear, in this business should not be too hot: see that the sratens did not break. It would be regrettable to me, if you, the most respectable gentleman, were evolved with a fragrant honey bag. And where is the mustard seed?

Mustard seeds. Here.

The foundation. Your foot, mustard seeds! Yes, please leave your ceremony, kind grains.

Mustard seeds. What you want?

The foundation. Yes, nothing special. Help only Mr. Customer scratch my head. However, my friend, it seems to me, it is necessary to go down to the valley, because my face is, as it seems to me, it looks like a hair, and I, even donkey, but so sensitive that where only snags hair, so Square.

Titania. Do you want my cute, listen to music?

The foundation. For music, my ears is quite developed. Let me be served the key and tongs.

Titania. Tell me, my treasure, do not want to eat you?

The foundation. Well, the measure of oats, perhaps, would not be superfluous to me; Good, dry oats wished me willingly. Yes, I would not refuse me and from Khpanka Sen; With good scented hay, nothing in the world will compare.

Titania. Mim my elf from the socket protein will achieve fresh nuts.

The foundation. I preferred a handful or two dry peas. But, I ask you, order your servants so that they do not disturb me with anything, because I feel instant calling for sleep.

Titania. In the monkey. And I wise your own neck. Elf, delete, leave us for a while. So the Pavita wraps a fragile goat leaf, so woman-shaped ivy decorates rings rough rod joints. Oh, as I love you! How strongly I am fascinated to you (falling asleep).

Included

Oberon (speaking forward). Here, kind of robe! Do you see the adorable this picture? I'm already starting to regret that I caught up with such madness. I met her a few times ago. She collected incense herbs for the disgusting alcohol. I threw it on her, began to scold, why she removed his sword wool whiskey wreath from fresh fragrant flowers. And the same dew, which can usually tremble on the board, like precious oriental pearls, now trembled in cups of colors, like tears, mourning their own humiliation. When I triggered and walked for a long time, and she had repeatedly began to pray for a condesception, I demanded a changeable boy from her, and she immediately lost it, told his elf to take him into my magic country and hide him there in the gazebo. Now, mining the boy, I cure her eyes from their bad ailment. And you, Pain, take away from this Athenian fooling his magic head so that he wakes up, like all the others, could, like them, return to Athens, imagining that all the events of this night were creating him in anxious dream. But before, I have to disappoint Qaritsu Fey.- Whether it was, and see how I saw before. Such a gracious action has a flower of Diana against a cupid flower. Wake up, my titanium, my dear, my queen!

Titania. Oh my spouse, what I saw sleep! I dreamed that I fell in love with the donkey.

Oberon. Here is your love lies here.

Titania. How could it happen to happen? Oh, how disgusting me now his face!

Oberon. Take it easy. Ruben, take off his head off him. Veli, Titania, play music. Adopting the feelings of five of these people stronger than an ordinary dream.

Titania. Let the music playing, sleeping music.

Pok. When you wake up, watch your own foolish eyes.

Oberon. Yes, let the music play. Let's go hands, my queen. So that the land was drowned on which they sleep! Now we have risen and tomorrow at midnight solemnly sleeping in the palace of the Duke Tezay and walked him a blessing in mind the most beautiful offspring. Together with theses and full joy will be combined with marriage and these two pairs of loyal lovers.

Pok. Stop, my lord. I hear the song of the morning lark.

Oberon. If so, my queen, we will take the night shadow in the dark silence and getting a glove ball faster than the moon.

Titania. Fly. During the flight, you will tell you what happened that I found himself sleeping on earth among these mortals (go).

Over the scene, the sounds of pipes are heard. Assay theses, Ippolit and Age with a retinue.

Tezie. Since all the rites are fulfilled and the day has already taken up, let someone go and find the forester. Instead of music, we treat my beloved dog in your dog. Switch them from samples in the Western Valley. Well, more advantageous! Lay, say, forester. And we, the adorable Queen, will take a hill to the top of the hill and listen from there, like doggy voices merge with echo in a harmonic combination.

Hippolyte. I once been with Herculele and with cadm, when they are Spartan dogs to train a bear in the Cretan Forest. I never understood such a wonderful etching. Not only the forest, but also heaven, and streams, and all the circle seemed to appealed to one solid tweeter. I never heard such a musical discharge, such a caressing hearing of Gama.

Tezie. My dogs are also a Spartan breed. Sonya and stains they have the same wide, ears, moistened with morning dew, the same long legs deployed and the same supporters like Fessiona Bulls. Put, they are not so fast, but the voices are chosen like bells. Never in Crete in Sparta, nor in the Fessiona, no more harmonious tanking was caused by Oshukani and horns. Sudi herself when you hear. But what is it? What are the nymphs?

Aegea. This, my lord, first, my sleeping daughter here, and this is Lizandr, it's demetri, it's Elena, the daughter of the old Nadar. I am surprised how they could find everything together here.

Tezie. They probably got up so early for the fulfillment of May rituals and, having learned about our intention, came here, so that everyone would decorate our celebration. However, Aegea say, it seems, today Hermy must declare, on whom her choice stopped?

Aegea. Yes, today, my lord.

Tezie. Say the same hunters, so that they woke them out by the sounds of their horns. (Behind the scene sounds of horns and screams. Demetrius, Lizardr, Hermia and Elena wake up and jump around). Good morning, friends! It must have come valentines day, because even the birds of this forest begin to converge into the pairs.

Lizardr (together with other knees before theses). Sorry, sovereign!

Tezie. I ask you all, stand up. I know that you are here two rival enemies. How was it suddenly a secret wonderful consent? Hate disappeared, removing jealousy and allowing enemies to sleep nearby, not afraid of any hostile actions?

Lizardr. I will answer you, the sovereign, completely even reacted, not knowing, and I still, or I also woke up at all. But I swear that I can't say probably how I found himself here, and it was because I would like to tell you the truth. Yes, now I remember. I came here with Hermia. We wanted to escape from Athens to such a country where the Athenian law could not be pursued.

Aegea. Pretty, my lord; Enough and this. I ask for legal kara, yes, legal. They wanted to run and thus deprive you, Demetri, wife, and me - my consent to be your wife.

Demetrius. Beauty Elena told me, my Lady, about their intention to run, hide in this forest, and I chased myself in a mad amendment. And Elena, from love to me, went after me. But here, my lord, for some unknown I strength, - And what was such a power here, - all my love was melted with Hermia, like snow, turned into a pregnant on some insignificant fun in childhood. Now all my love, all the dust of my heart is given alone Elena - the only thing that serves as joy for my eyes. Earlier than to see Hermia, I loved her, but, as in illness, I felt aversion to such food; Now, as recovering, my natural taste has returned. I love her, I wish it, thirst and forever I will be faithful!

Tezie. Young lovers, what a happy meeting is for you! You after tell us everything in detail. Aegea, I will not fulfill your desire, because both of these couple are now together with us will be connected in the temple by eternal besies. And since the morning is already on the outcome, we will post hunt. Let's go all to Athens. The festival of the marriage of three women and three men will be released very solemnly. We go, Inpolyte (leaves with a hippoly, behind them, Aegea and Sweet).

Demetrius. All this is as vaguely and vaguely, as the distant mountains turned into the clouds.

Hermia. It seems to me that I see all with different eyes, everything is bothering.

Elena. Too with me. It seems to me that the Demetriy seemed to be found by me at Village: he and mine, and not mine.

Demetrius. Are you convinced that we woke up at all? It seems to me that we still sleep and continue to dream. Duke was really here and told Idtm for us.

Hermia. Was, but with him my father.

Elena. And Ippolita.

Lizardr. Yes, and he ordered us to go to the temple.

Demetrius. And so, if we woke up, go after him. Dear, we will tell each other all that we have dreamed (go).

The base (waking up). When my turn comes, call, and I will answer. After all, I have to talk after the words: "The simplest female ..." Hey you! Peter Pigva! Dudka - Seller Inflatable Furov! Mednick Skil! Otter! What! Everyone was running out, but I was left here. Oh, what I saw a wonderful dream! I saw such a dream that I was able to tell some kind of sleep, I could not mind the human mind. Everyone who descended to explain this dream would be a donkey. I got dreamed, as if I was ... And it was dreaming that I had ... But let it hear a striped jerk who bother to say that it was from me, as it seemed to me. The eye of man did not hear, the ear did not have a person, a person's hand is unable to imagine, his language is to understand, the heart to tell that it was for the wonderful dream. I deign to Pigvi to make a ballad from this sleep, and it will be called: "Sleep of the foundation," because there is no basis in it, and at the very end of our comedy will sing it before the duke. And it's not better to easily sing it when Fisby will die, so much more pleasant (goes out).

Athens. Room in the house of Pigva.

Purchase Pigva, Dudka, Rowl and Otter.

Pigva. Have you sent for the basis? He returned home?

Otter. No one knows where he was nas. He was probably kidnapped, otherwise we can not.

Dub. And if he won't return, forgive our comedy! After all, she will not go then, can't go.

Pigva. In no way. In all Athens, besides him, there is no person who can play a pram.

Dub. No, not because, but only on the grounds that in all Athens there is no person more levanced than he.

Pigva. And he is the most beautiful. Yes, and on the pleasant sound of the voice, he is a real lover.

Dub. Say: very caught manbecause, what is he lover? Awesome anywhere else!

Enters a bang.

Bourish Gentlemen, the duke returns from the temple; There are two more or three gentlemen and two or three Mrs. and two or three Mrs. If our comedy went, we would all go to people.

Dub. Oh, my nice my friend's basis! Thanks to his stupidity, he lost all twelve pence lifelong income; Because he did not lose six pence: the duke would not want to portray the Pram to award just six pensions a day. Hang me if he did not deserve them! Six pence a day for pyrum or nothing.

The basis includes.

The foundation. Where are you, my well done? Where are you, my heart friends?

Pigva. Oh, what gallant day! Oh, what a look-old hour!

The foundation. Gentlemen, I can tell you the real wonders. Just do not ask what exactly, because I tell you, I am not a real Athenian. I will tell you everything in detail everything that was from the word before the word.

Pigva. So tell the same, kind of weak.

The foundation. There is a word about yourself. All I have to tell you is that the duke has gone. Take all your outfits, tie good ribbons to beards, new ribbons to dancer your shoes and go to the palace now. Yes, let everyone confirm its role, as our presentation is allowed and preference to all others is given to him. In any case, see the lingerie on the lingerie, and the one who becomes depicting the lion; I did not think of trimming my claws, because they would have to fulfill the position of lion's claws. And also, my dear actors, do not eat onion, nor garlic, because it is necessary that our breath is pleasant. So, I am sure that we will hear how they will say: "Pleasant, very nice comedy!" More than a word. Come on! We go! (Go)

Fifty action

Athens. Room in the Tezay Palace.

Cases: Teze, Ippolita, Philostrat, Velmazby and Sweet.

Hippolyte .. How strange, my dear Tesoy, all that couples told us!

Tezie. Yes, more strange than believable. I never believed neither old fairy tales nor different wonders made by magic. In love with the crazy, the brain is so good, and creative fantasy is so strong that they see even something that is never able to imagine a cold mind. Crazy, lovers and poets are embodiments of imagination. One seems to be the abyss of the demons that it does not fit even in a spacious hell, it's crazy. The in love, persecuted as well, on the face of Gypsy sees the beauty of Helena. The eyes of the poet, rotating in graceful Gresses, look from the sky to the ground, then from the earth to the sky. Just as the imagination of poets gives the flesh and blood to unknown creatures, their pen gives infertility to the definite image and a certain place in the air indicates and the name and name. These are the fad of the imagination, which, if we need to come up with some joy, writing and the messenger who brought joyful news. If you need to come up with some of the series of outward fear, it is also easy for them as at night take a bush for a bear.

Hippolyte. However, all that they told us about the events of the past night, about simultaneous change in their attachment - not only the game of imagination; On the contrary, it is quite valid. In any case, all this is strange and causes an invalid surprise.

Supply: Lizardr, Demetrius, Hermia and Elena.

Tezie. So our lovers, fun and joyful. Fun, cute my friends, fun and eternally young love, do not destroy never from your hearts.

Lizardr. Let these joys remain even more or rather than your royal walks, your table and your lie.

Tezie. Now let's see what masks and what dances will help us to pass three hour eternity, separating dinner from caring to sleep. Where is the usual manager of our passions. What did he prepare for us fun? Will you do any idea to speed up the course of painfully slow clocks. Call philostrat!

Philostrat. I am here, powerful toy.

Tezie. Tell me what kind of fun you prepared for today's evening, what masks, what kind of music? What are we deceiving a lazy time, how not to some fun?

Philostrat. Here is a list of prepared fun. Share, my lord, which one of them will see the first to see (gives a list).

Tesi (reads). Athens Enun under the sounds of the harp makes about the battle with Centaurs! Do not. I, to exalt the glory of my relative of Hercules, has already told her my beloved. "The riot of drunk vakhanok, in rabies tearing into parts of the Thracian singer." Old. It was presented to me when I was the last time. With a victory returned from Phi. "Three times three muses, mourning the death of the scholarship, recently deceased in poverty." It is some kind of stuck and tickling Satire, without not going to the marriage celebration. "Sad-cheerful and boring-short scene of a young pyram with his beloved fistby. Fun is very tragic." Sad and cheerful - yes it does not care that hot ice and boiling snow. How to agree on such a contradiction?

Philostrat. In the whole play no more than ten words, so I do not know the plays more brief. But, my lady even these ten words make it too long, so she is boring. In it, no word is in its place, as there is not a single actor, anything suitable for his role. The tragic one, the sovereign, is really so, because in her the femors kill himself. When I watched the play at the rehearsal, I confess, tears were made to my eyes, such fun tears, which never even caused the most loud laughter.

Tezie. Who are the actors?

Philostrat. People, here, in Athens, with corn hands, saving food to themselves - until this day they have never worked as a mind, they have led this play with their memory, who are not accustomed to such work, and all this for your celebration.

Tezie. I'll see her.

Philostrat. No, my lord, she is unworthy. I listened to her all, this vulgarity, the greatest vulgarity. The ability to swee you exists only in their intention. They memorized her with terrible labor, with terrible efforts - everything to please you.

Tezie. I want to see her. Nothing, offered by the simplicity and zeal, can not be unworthy of me. Stay, call them. And you, my lovely, sit down (Philostrat goes away).

Hippolyte. I do not like to look at how the mildness is knocked out of the forces and how diligent efforts die.

Tezie. My dear, you won't see anything here.

Hippolyte. Yes, I said, philosty, that the actors do not understand anything in this matter.

Tezie. That generous thank you for nothing; We will be fun to enjoyed to their misses. After all, the fact that it is not possible to poorly diligence must meet the award not for his advantages, but for the intention to please as much. In different places, great scientists were sunk to greet my arrival of pre-prepared speeches. And I, when they from the very first words were pale, was taken to tremble, stayed in the middle of the sentence, lowered a voice from fear, accustomed to utter speeches and finally silent, even without reaching the greeting, - Believe me, my dear, I saw in this silence, Understood the modesty of timidly zeal as well as the cracking of the phrase cheekly swore eloquence. The smaller words, the better. Mine attachments and simplicity stronger all sorts of eloquence speak to my heart.

Philostrat returns.

Philostrat. If you please, the sovereign, the prologue is ready.

Tezie. Let them appear.

With thunder pipes and as a prologue included Pigva.

Prologue. If we do not get you, then due to the strongest of our desire, that is, we are not so that you do not want to please you; On the contrary, it is the strongest wish; For the wrong we came. Show your art - the true beginning of our end. Come on; We were here not to make you annoy, and to make you pleasing, cheer you so that you do not regret you are here; The actors are ready, and from their game you are likely to know all that you are destined to learn.

Tezie. This small does not stop before punctuation signs.

Lizardr. He grabbed his prologue as a wild foal, which was not accustomed to any obstacles, in the form of points and commas. This, the sovereign, is an excellent proof that is not only enough to say that it is necessary to speak even with meaning.

Hippolyte. In fact, he played his prologue, like a child on a swirl: there is a sound, but no sense.

Tezie. The speech was similar to the chain promotion, "she is not broken, but still not suitable. What further?

Enter: piral and fistby; Behind him wall, lunar light and lion.

Prologue. Representative viewers, you, maybe, are amazed by such a spectacle, but amazeful, while the truth is not explained to you all. If you want to know, this guy is femors, and this despicable person is Fisby. It's right. But this, molded by clay and lime Vulch, should be a wall, the very treacherous wall that shares young lovers, and through the wall, through the crack in which lovers are happy to even sput, and this can hardly surprise. Here is the same, with a lantern, with a dog and a knitting twig, - Moonlight, because if you want to know this, lovers did not find the reprehensible to meet with the lunar light at Nina's grave. But this scary beastWhat scared or, or rather, frightened, faithful fistby, when she returned home at night. On running, she dropped his bedspread, and the viley lion did not unwind his blooming thread, however, soon, then the femors, the young man is beautiful and statist, and finds the covers for his dumbfounded and faithful fistby. He is cruelly a deadly blade bravely punks his cruel-boiled breasts, and Fisby, waiting for him under the shadow of the mulberry, snatches his dagger and dies. Everything else will tell you the other actors like the lion, the lunar light, the wall and two of lovers (leaves with the feast, with fissa, lion, lunar light and a satellite).

Tezie. I'm waiting with surprise, how the lion speaks.

Demetrius. There is nothing, the sovereign, wonder what can speak the lion when there is a lot of donkeys.

Snout. In this very thing, I am noticeable by digging, I have to see me, to portray the wall, then-there is just such a wall so that you think that there is a crack, a crack or door in it, through which lovers are often secretly twisted. This clay, this lime and this stone show that I am that the most wall is, but on the right and on the left the same crack, through which such fearful lovers, like femors and fistby, should whisper.

Tezie. As you wish, so that the hairy clay spoke better.

Demetrius. Never, the sovereign, did not hear that the wall spoke so eloquently.

Tezie. Here the femors come to the wall. Cherry!

Included femors.

Pears. Oh about night, with fierce-greedy eyes! About the night, according to black not able to commemorate with any kind of black! Oh about night, which is everywhere where there is no bottom! Alas, alas, about the night, about the night, I'm afraid that Fisby has forgotten the promise to me, and you, the wall, a cute love wall, standing between the mine and earth of her father, point me out your cracker so that our eyes can overheet through it ( The wall pulls the hand and spreads the fingers). Thanks to these females. Yes, I keep you for this Jupiter ... But what am I zrya? I do not say you, fistby! Oh, the ill-fated wall, through which bliss is not visible. Let all your stones be cursed for such a hoax!

Tezie. The offense of the wall, too, perhaps, will answer with a cross.

Pears. No, the sovereign, it does not apply it. But words ... must say fisbie, now her way out. And I should look for her eyes through the wall. You will see all the way to get exactly the way I said. Here it goes.

Enters fistby.

Fisby. About the wall, as you often listened to my walls that you solve me with a handsome man in my female! How many times are my cherry lips kissed your stones, but then there were only stones related to hair and clay.

Fisby. My love! After all, I suppose you are my love.

Pears. Believe what you want, but I'm still your beloved, always faithful to you like Limander.

Fisvi. And I am true as Elena, until fate stops my days.

Pears. So faithful, as I,, even Shafal did not have a progress.

Fisby. And I, as a scroll scroll.

Pears. Oh, kiss me through the gap of this hated wall

Fisby. I kiss, but not you, but the walls of the wall.

Pears. If you want, we will come down right now at Nina's grave.

Fisby. Live or dead, I will definitely come there.

Wall. I, the wall, now played your role, and as the role is played, then the wall leaves (leaves with the feast and with fesba).

Tezie. What is the walls that separated from each other neighbors, now does not exist?

Demetrius. How doesn't they exist, the sovereign when it has ears?

Hippolyte. I have never heard such nonsense.

Tezie. The very best of such works is still to season with imagination, and the same imagination even the worst of them makes a balanced.

Hippolyte. Then it will not be their merit, but yours.

Tezie. If we are about them no worse opinion than themselves, they can be taken for excellent actors. But here includes two noble beasts: month and lion.

Lion and lunar light are included.

A lion. You, the audience, whose gentle hearts are afraid when the miracle runs on the floor, maybe back-armed now and firm when the ferocious lion will begin to roar in wild rabies. So know that this is me, a gentle joiner, named Bourv, and although the skin on me is lion, but I don't even imagine the lioness. If I were here, as a lion in all his ferocity, I would probably have to be bad.

Tezie. Very good-bought beast and very conscientious.

Demetrius. I never saw the best.

Lizardr. By courage lion this real fox.

Tezie. And goose on prudence.

Demetrius. Not quite, my master: his braveness does not carry his braveness, and the fox often takes a goose.

Tezie. I am convinced that he does not endure his courage, because it does not carry his goose fox. But we will provide all this for his admission and listen to what a month will say.

Moonlight. "Horned this lantern depicts a month."

Demetrius. Then the horns would be on his forehead,

Tezie. This is a middle-aged month, therefore the horns are invisible.

Moonlight.

"Horned this lantern depicts a month,

I myself depict myself now

This that in this moment is happening on the month. "

Tezie. Of all other errors, this is the largest. The man then should be put in the lantern. How else would he be a man in a month?

Demetrius. He is afraid of candles burning in a lantern. See how she has already naked.

Hippolyte. I missed this month, I look forward to the following.

Tezie. Judging by the weak light of his prudence, it must be assumed that it was already damaged for him. But we are of politeness and justice should wait for the continuation.

Lizardr. Go on, month!

Moonlight. This lamp is a month; That's all I have to tell you; I - the man in the month, and this knitter is my knitting; The dog is my dog.

Demetrius. All this should have been in the lantern, because it is in the month. However, quieter! Here is a fisbit.

Enters fistby.

Fisby. Here is the grave of the old Nina. Where is my beloved?

A lion. Ltd! (Roars; Fisby runs away).

Demetrius. Lev switched perfectly.

Tezie. And Fisby also ran perfectly.

Hippolyte. Monthly also shone perfectly. Month, right, shines with the big dexterity.

(The lion breaks the fisbie cloak and leaves).

Tezie. The lion was perfectly confused.

Demetrius. But goes and femors.

Lizardr. And the lion disappears.

Included femors.

Pears. Thank you, a kind month, for your sun rays; Thank you that you shine so bright, because with your graceful, gold, sparkling rays, I hope to award the fistest to me ... But stand! Oh God! Zri, poor knight, what a terrible grief here! About viewers Do you all? Is it possible that such misfortune? Oh my dear duckling, my treasure, your wonderful cloak is all in the blood! Oh Approach, Fierce Furi! Come, come, about the parks! Yes, come and cut the yarn! Rube, crush, cut, kill!

Tezie. Such despair caused by the death of another creature could be almost touching.

Hippolyte. Be cursed my heart, if I do not feel touched!

Pears. Oh nature, why did you create Lviv, when the South Lion deprived my treasure all his blooming charms? She surpasses ... no, no, she surpassed all women, ever who lived, who loved, captivated and so fun leaving the circle! Come, servants, and ruin me. Oh, the sword, the times of the pyram right in the left side where the heart beats. So I'm dying! Yes, so, so! Now I'm dead. Now my soul flew off! She is already in heaven! The tongue was silent, the look fades! Month, run! Now sleep my eyes, sleep, sleep, sleep! (Dies. Moonlight leaves).

Demetrius. What is the eyes here, when he is only one point, because there is no one with him.

Lizardr. No, he is less than a point, because he is dead, therefore - nothing. Teze, with the help of a doctor he can still recover and be donut.

Hippolyte. Which month went earlier than the fisbit returned and found his beloved?

Tezie. She will find him at the light of the stars. Her despair graduates with a play (fistby enters).

Hippolyte. I hope that her despair, mourning such a pyrum, will not be too long.

Demetrius. Dusting on the scales will show who is better: - He is like a man, she is, like a woman.

Lizardr. She has already seen him beautiful with his own eyes.

Demetrius. And here is the tenderness of due.

Fisvi. My love sleeps. How did he die, my dove? Oh, femors, ship! Oh say, speak! What are you so numb? Died! Died! Was it a broom to close wonderful eyes? Lily these lips, scarlet spout, these, like bulbs of yellow cheeks ... It all faded it, faded! Stick, lovers, dust! Never sometimes was so green as his eyes. Come, three sisters, come to me, come and outgright my blood milk-white hands, when you have already cut your life with your scissors. Full, tongue! Neither a word more! Come, my faithful sword, come, blade, and sound in my chest! Farewell, friends! That's how the fisbit ends. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye! (Dies).

Tezie. The lion and the Moonlight remained to bury the deceased.

Demetrius. And with them more wall.

Pears. No, honest word, the walls between the possessions of both fathers are no more. You want to listen to an epilogue now or look at Bergamasco? It will be performed by two of our company.

Tezie. I ask you, no epilogue is not necessary. Your play will cost it without him, as in the apologies, she does not need it at all: they all move and scold someone and not for what. So, if the play played a pram and hanged on the garter of Fisby, the niceway would be a tragedy. Such is, however, and now, yes, he also played perfectly. Execute Bergamasco, and the epiloga is not needed

The iron language of midnight has already punched twelve times. Mostly, lovers in bed; The magic hour of spirits has come. I am afraid that we are the next morning wrapped the same way, as we worked out all this night. No matter how this play is, she perfectly deceived slowly the current time. So, in bed, kind friends. For another two weeks we will celebrate, fervent nights behind the pearts and for new guides (go).

Included

Pok. Now, that hour, when the hungry lion is roar, the wolf will work for a month, and the Pakh carriage spit peacefully and snoring over the day. Now in the foci they are smoldering the heads, including one owl, sinister crying reminds the patient about Savan. Now such a night's time, when the graves are widely expanded and produce their tenants to wander along the trails of the cemetery. But we, the elves, as if running from the sun in the darkness of the racatoy, now live. No mouse will disturb the housing in love with us. Me with the broom sent forward to the door of dust.

Parts with their sheets of Oberon and Titania.

Oberon. Shimmering light

Roach lights

Let go lit up

The whole lush palace.

You, elves like birds,

Fluttering on branches

For me repeat

Playful entanglements.

Titania. Holding hands, repeat every word, and these harmonious sounds we are consecrated inviolability for the evil of this place.

Singing and dance.

Oberon. Now, elves, have not yet completely dawn, datter on your shelters; We will go to the legs of the newlywed and bless them. All that neither nourishing them will always be happy; All three couples will be true in their love; The hand of nature is not to leave on the body of their children. Neither the ugly moles, nor acne, no kiqueties, causing such a disgust in a minute of the child. Sprinkled with fertile dewy, database, elves. Wait in each of the chambers, bless each of them, so that in the whole palace, the unchanged world always rearranged, and the owner of the palace bled. Hurry up, do not hesitate, but for the dawn, everyone will gather from me (leaves with Titanium and with elves).

Pok. If we, perfume, did not have time to please you, then imagine that everything can be corrected that everything is seen by you - only sleep. Be the same, respectable viewers, are favorably to this trifle, as to sleep; Do not bother him and we will fix it. I pass to you in this, like honest Pain, and if this does not turn out, name me with a liar. So, deceased to all the nights of you, and if you, friends, make me happy with handshakes, and you will see that I will prove my gratitude to what I correct (goes out).

Sleep in Ivanov night.

The times of the writings of this play, says Gervinus, who was probably written in honor of the marriage of some high four, they consider 1594-96. The Wedding Tezay is an external focus of the play, around which clowns are going, elves and artisans. The gee, on his part, points to the poem of Spencer "Tears of Muses", which is a hint of a play and which appeared in 1591, which shows that the comedy is written after that year. Then, in one place in the speech of Titania there is a hint of weather abnormality, noticed in 1593-1594, which gives a reason to conclude that the comedy appeared precisely for about this time.

P. 153. Action "Sleep in the Summer Night" takes place in a grove nearby with Athens, says Francois Hugo, - but the night preceding Ivanov, i.e. on June 24, it was in England, at the time of Shakespeare, wore a fantastic character . It is on this night, in the hour of the birth of John the Baptist, people went to the forest to look for the famous fern, who allegedly had a property of making a person invisible. Fairy, under the leadership of their queen, and demons led by Satani, entered the present battle for the production of this enchanted flower. It is absolutely clear that the author chose this magic night and the forest for the flight of lovers and for whimsical and adorable fudges of northern mythology, which is so powerful and so poetically impede them into human life and passion. "

P. 159. At the time of Shakespeare in the English People's Drama, handicraft shops occupied a fairly prominent place. They had their own cartridges, in honor of which mysteries were played, transmitting the lives and miracles of each of these cartridges. Sometimes the goals were connected and played some big play on the topic, hoped from the Vethago or the New Testament, as the passions of the Lord in Ammergau are played.

P. 162. Pok, or, as he is actually called Radan Goodfelloou, there is no other than the German "faithful servant of Ruprecht, literally. Wonderful that in german language The word produced from this behalf: "Ryople", which only can correspond english word "Clown" expressing the role that Piece is playing at Shakespeare. Belief in the elves, which in Scandinavia was more common than in England, took, in turn, much more lively forms in Scotland and England than in Germany. In particular, Ruban Goodfellow was a favorite of folk fantasy of the XIII century, and with his name, as with the name "Eileshpigel" in Germany and the "Brownie" in Russia, all cunning trips were connected. The vaults about them already in 1584 are referred to in the book "Discoveries of Witshcraft". Nash in his book "Terrors of the Night" says that all the funny tricks "Ruben, elves, the fairies of our time" are committed at night. The book of Tarlton "Newes Out of Purgatory" is also mentioned that Ruben was wonderful with his funny practices. Then in one people's book, known before the appearance of a "sleep in a summer night" and printed in 1628, a legend of the next people are transmitted.

P. 162. "The boy kidnaped from the Indian king." The people loved to talk about elves, as if they kidnap baptized young children and put them in their place in the cradle of their chumadic, ugly, shrimp and restless children. To get rid of such an unscrewing cry, it is only good to boot it or take it to the crossroads and leave it there for the night, "the elves certainly cleaned him and return the child who was kidnapped.

P. 163. The name of Tsar Elves "Oberon" is alteration to French Floor: Alberon or Alberyich, Dwarc Elf, which early appears in the ancient German poems. In the Roman Gyon de Bordeaux appears Oberon, and this work in 1579 was translated into english Lord Bernes.

P. 164. All of England in 1593 and 1594 suffered from those spontaneous turmoils that Shakespeare tells here and who were attributed to the wrath of God. In the "Annals" Streap, says Francois Hugo, is an extraction from King's sermon written on this topic. The coincidence of the word poet and the honorable preacher rushed into the eyes all the commentators of Shakespeare, and precisely on the basis of these words, Malon took the time to create a "sleep" by 1594.

P. 165. With the words of Oberon about Vestas, who reigned in the West, notes Francois Hugo, is associated very interesting narration. Count Hadpeaster in the castle of Keniluorce in July 1575 gave festivities in honor of Elizabeth. The queen was played out on the lake mythological play. "Triton under the guise of sirens" and "Arion on the back of Dolphin" took part in this intermediate and sang in honor of the high-ranking visitor, composed by Leester himself. Elizabeth was very grateful for this poetic greeting of the owner, doubled his attention to him and agreed to suffer from his eighteen days. This grace was so great that everyone saw in the lover's ledist, ready to become her husband. This was convinced of an even more break of the negotiations on the wedding with the Duke Alanssa. In this, the time began to walk rumors about the intrigue of the Almighty Favorite with Countess Essex. One of those surrounding dared to speak loudly about this connection. He wore one surname with the mother of Shakespeare and was called Edward Arden. Lechechener revenged for his words by having hung him, accusing him in a Catholic conspiracy. But his words were raised: the projected marriage of Leester with Elizabeth did not take place, Essex himself soon died, as they said, from the poison, and Ladi Essex, having become widow, turned into Ladi Leester. For these events, the story of Oberon's story hints. In general, there are many hints of the Kenil'uorian festivities that Shakespeare can see personally, being a twelve-year-old boy. Tick, in this case, suggests that Shakespeare in Pastorali on the lake played the role of "Echo"; Walter Scott, making an anachronism, attributes that Elizabeth welcomed the poet with his poets; Francois Hugo expresses the assumption that the Stradforsky Butcher John Shakespeare, going to the festivities, took her son and his son ...

P. 173. "Let's say straight that I am a joiner." These words hint at the same incident of the Kheniluga celebrations. During the presentation on Lake, Gera Goldingham had to depict Arion on the back of the dolphin; During the presentation, he felt that his voice was strongly hoarse and became extremely unpleasant, then he broke his costume and began to swear that he was not Arion at all, but just an honest Gold Golding. This unexpected trapping has merged everyone and including the Queen.

P. 175 "Po and the basis with a donkey head on the shoulders." Albert Great in his secrets informs the means to turn the human head into the donkey: "Si Vis Quod Caput Hominis Assimiletur Capiti Asini, Sume de Semine Aselli, Et Unge Haminis in Capite, Et SiC Apparebit." Reginald Scott in his "messages at the expense of magic" in the XIX chapter gives a more detailed recipe for the achievement of the same result: "Naturally, he says, explaining how the ointment is prepared - this is a mixture of the head of those present, and it will seem donel and horsepower. .

P. 185. "Luxury May Tree." Here, as I tell about the holiday on May 1, the contemporary of Shakespeare Strebbs (Yarrow Puritanin, in his "Anatomie of Abuses", printed in 1585. "On the night of May 1st, all residents of cities and villages are sent to fields and forests, where and Conduct all night in various fun and where they come back with green branches in their hands. But the most important thing from everything that they bring home, is the May tree that they bring with great honor, and here's how it is: take 20-30 pairs of oxen , of which, each at the ends of the horns are tied bouquets of colors, and on these oxes are briefly brought home, wrapped with flowers and herbs, ribbons with ribbons to bottom, and sometimes painted by various paints; two hundred and three hundred men, women and children go after Behind the tree, and, bringing him home and decorating his tops with flags and scarves, sleep the land around him with flowers, and the very trunk of it will be powered by green garlands; then, as starving demons, they start to eat, dance and have fun. "

P. 192. "Must be, Valentine's day came, because even the birds begin to converge in the pair." According to the popular belief, they thought that birds begin to fall from the day of St. Valentine.

P. 202. The person in the month was visible not only in the opinion of the people, but also according to scientists. He was seen accompanied by a dog and a knitting brushwood behind his shoulders. Scientists of that time diverge only on the question of who this person. According to some theologists, this man was none other than good-natured Isaac, carrying a twig to the altar, in which his father had to sacrifice him. But more orthodox shepherds rejected this opinion and, with Divine books in his hands, argued that Abraham and Isaac, as righteous, are located on the London. In their opinion, the man on the moon is the sinner, which is referred to in the book "Numbers" and, which, despite the commandment about the rest in the seventh day, was collected on Saturday a dog. This belief must have been popular in England, as it is mentioned in one old poem of the XIV century attributed to Causeer. There is still a gloomy legend. The creature visible to people for thousands of years on a night luminaire is none other than Cain, exiled by the Lord's curse from the ground and made the "Eternal Jet Moon". This opinion was distributed in Italy and mentioned at Dante.

P. 205. Oberon talks about the birthmarks. For popular beliefs, not all of them have the same meaning. Visible to the person himself, the birthplace spots bring him unhappiness, and those that are invisible to him, opposite that, bring happiness.

In this article we will talk about the famous comedy "Sleep in the summer night." William Shakespeare - a recognized master of dramaturgy equal to which has not yet been found in the literature. His creations written in the distant 16th century did not lose their relevance even today.

About the work

The play consists of 5 acts, the date of writing is 1596. It is believed that the author composed her specifically for the wedding day of some aristocrat approximate to Elizabeth I.

The main idea of \u200b\u200bthe comedy: the whole world is a game. And what it will end, will depend only on the solution and mood of the players themselves. But you should not seek a particularly deep philosophical subtext in this work, as it was created mainly to entertain the audience.

Shakespeare, "Sleeping in the Summer Night": a summary. Situation and heroes

The events of the play in the ancient Greek Athens are unfold. Rights the city of King, called the Teshem, with which a lot of ancient legends is associated, the main of them talks about the conquest of the Amazon tribe, after which he took their wife the Tsaritsa Ippolit, which also participates in the play.

In addition to the characters, people, in comedy there are magical creatures - this in particular, the king and the queen of these nations are Oberon and Titania.

Vazka

Starts with the wedding preparations of the comedy "Sleeping in the Summer Night" ( summary We will be presenting in this article). Under the crown is going to Duke Teshen and Queen Ippolit. The celebration is scheduled for the night of the full moon.

Angry Age, Father, Young Hermia, breaks to the palace. He pounces on Lizandra with accusations - the young man enchanted his daughter and forced to love himself, and meanwhile the girl was already promised to Demetrius. Hermia appears, she says that Lisandra loves. The duke interferes with the conflict and announces that according to the laws of Athens, the daughter is obliged to fulfill the will of the parent. Testa gives a time-willed girl time on thinking, but on the first day of the new moon she will have to decide to "die ... or get married with whom the father chose ... or give ... a clergy."

Hermia and Lizardr decide to escape from Athens and agree to meet the next night at the nearest forest. Lovers open their plan to Elena. The girl has long been and hopelessly in love with Demetrius, hoping to decline the favorite favor, she tells him about the plans of Hermia and Lizandra.

Intermedia

Shakespeare, as always, anticipate development literary techniques. For example, we see the staging of the play in the Comedy itself "Sleeping in the Summer Night" (a summary is that evidence). Thus, the author builds the game, in this case theatrical, in absolute. And this is a favorite intake of postmodernism, which will appear only at the end of the 20th century.

So, the company master decides to put intermenia in honor of the wedding of Tereas. The director is elected by a carpenter Peter Pigva, who chooses the "preliminary comedy" "the very cruel death of pram and fesby." Tax is called the role of the Pram, he is generally ready to take on several characters at once. The role of fesby gets his dudka, repairing inflated fur. Let it not surprise you, at the time of Shakespeare women could not participate in performances, and all the roles were performed by men. Mother of Fesba became the tailor Robin Zimsich; Father Pyrama - Tom Sonya, Mednik; Lvom - Milya's joiner. Pigva tells everyone to learn their roles to tomorrow.

Kingdom of Fey.

Uses in his play images of the mythical characters Shakespeare. "Sleeping in the summer night" from this comes closer with an English fairy tale.

The action is transferred to the forest. The ruler of the elves and Fay Oberon quarrel with his wife Titania because of the baby, whom the queen adopted. The king wishes to pick up a child from his wife to make it his PJ. Titania refuses to her husband and removes together with the elves.

Then Oberon orders Elf Pack to bring a flower into which Cupid arrows accidentally. If the juice of this plant grease the eyelids of sleep, he will love the first one who sees. The king hopes that his spouse fell in love with some animal, and the child will forget.

Invisible Oberon remains to wait for the peek. At this time, Elena and Demetrius appear, which is looking for Hermia and rejects the one that loves him. When the servant brings the flower, Oberon makes lubricate the eyelids Demetrius, so that he fell in love with Elena. The king of the elves itself causes the remaining juice forever in Titania.

Hermia and Lizardr, wandering through the forest, tired and lay down to relax. The PEC takes the young man for Demetrius and lubricates the juice of his eyelids. Waking up, Lizardr sees Elena, falls in love with her and confesses in his feelings. The girl decides that he mocks her over and runs away. The young man, throwing sleeping Hermia, pursues a new lover.

Awakening of Titania.

More and more implausible events occur in the play "Sleeping in a summer night". A summary tells us about the stamps, and not always harmless, elves and fairies.

In the forest are going to the rehearsal of workshops. The basis suggests not to scare the audience, make two prologies to the play. In the first one will be said that the pears do not kill himself at all, and at all this is not fear, but the basis. In the second to warn the audience that the lion is also not really a terrible beast, but the joiner.

The rehearsal observes PEK. Roller decides to join the foundation, turning his head into the donkey. Master accept buddy for the washing and run from him in fear. At that moment, a titanium wakes up, sleeping near this place. The first she sees the basis, falls in love and calls him with him. The queen immediately causes four elves and orders them to serve the new Milorda.

Duel

The events of the work of "Sleeping in the Summer Night" continue to develop. Pack reports Oberon about how the Queen loved the monster. The king is delighted with news. However, learning that instead of Demetrius, the magic juice fell on Lizandra, he begins to bore.

Oberon is looking for demetry, wanting to correct the passage of the servant. At this time, the Pack lures Elena to sleeping Demetrius. The young man awakens and immediately begins to swear in eternal love The one that just rejected. Elena comes to the conclusion that Lizandr and Demetrii have conspited to make fun on her. She also decided that Herria was involved in all this. Having heard the accusations of his address, Hermia pounces on a girlfriend with accusations that she seduced Lizandra.

Young people who have now become rivals, decide with the help of a duel to decide who will get to Elena. PEC comes delight from what is happening. However, Oberon orders the servant to have duelists deep into the forest, and then separated and drive around the circles so that they could not meet. When the emaciated heroes fall asleep, Pack lubricates the eyelids of Lizandra antidote from love juice.

Awakening

It has an obvious entertainment of "Sleeping in the Summer Night." Theater during the years of Shakespeare served only for the fun of the public. Nevertheless, the great drama even in the comedy, the lowest genre, as it was believed, was able to invest a tolik.

Oberon, who already got a baby, accidentally sees titanium sleeping next to the base. The king becomes sorry for her, and he lubricates her eyelids by antidote. The queen wakes up and exclaims: "I dreamed ... I fell in love with the donkey!". Oberon orders the peek to return the basis of the old head. Fairies fly away.

In the forest to the hunt come by Age, Ippolita and Teskey. They accidentally find asleep young people. Waking up, Lizandr announces that they with Hermias escaped here from the harsh laws of Athens. Demetriy, under the influence of potions, admits that he loves Elena and wishes her to become his wife. Testa proclaims that today there are two more couples, except for them with a hippoly.

The base wakes up, he goes to Pigwe. Here the director gives actors to the instruction before the performance.

"Sleeping in the summer night": summary. Junction

Begins preparation for the celebration. Lovers tell the Teshe about everything that happened to them in the forest. The duke is divided into their adventures.

Filostrat comes, managers of passionateness. It provides a test list of entertainment events, of which the ruler must choose the most likely. The duke stops the choice on the intermediate of the master.

The performance begins. Pigva is reading a prologue, and the audience make southell comments. It turns out, he explains that I am smeared with a lime, because it depicts a wall through which FISBA and PIMS must be told. Basic action begins. The lion rises on the stage, which in verses explains to everyone that he is unreal. At this time, Teshesy admires: "What a judicial and meek animal!". The actors say nonsense, mindlessly distort the text and make amendments to the plot. This is all very fun to the public.

At midnight, the play ends. Guests diverge. There are elves headed by Pac. They sing, dancing and having fun. Then the Oberon with his wife orders them to break through the castle and bless the bed of newlyweds.

This ends the play "Sleep in the summer night" (summary we presented above).

Sleeping in the summer night (eng. A Midsummer Night "S Dream) - Comedy William Shakespeare, written between 1594 and 1596. Presumably, the play" Sleeping in the Summer Night "was written by Shakespeare to the wedding of the English aristocrat and patroness of the arts Elizabeth Carey, Which married February 19, 1595, on this day "Sleeping in the summer night" was first executed in the theater. According to another version, "Sleeping in the Summer Night" is timed to celebrate St. John's Day (holiday, similar to the Day of Ivan Kupala in Russian Tradition ).
In 1826, 17-year-old German composer Felix Mendelson wrote music for theatrical setting "Sleep in the summer night." Mendelssohn's music to "sleep in a summer night" was very popular in the production of the 19th century, she left his trail and in cinema, being the main musical theme in the 1935 movie "Sleep in the summer night". The Mendelsonovsky "Wedding Marsh" from "Sleep in the Summer Night" was specially popular, from the hymn of the changeability of love for many in the anthem with married loyalty.

Theses are going to marry a hippolyte, the wedding of Demetrius and Hermic is also preparing, on which the father of Hermia is insisting. Hermia loves Lizandra, together they are decided to escape and talk about this Elena, in love with Demetrius, in the hope that Elena will delight the escape of the rivals for the heart of Demetrius. Elena, counting on the gratitude of Demetrius, tells him about the escape of his bride. As a result, all four - Hermia, Lizandr, Elena and Demetrius - find themselves in the forest at a time when there King Fay and Elves Oberon decides to punish his spouse to Titania, which does not give him his Indian page. Oberon orders his servant Paka to smear the eyes of a sleeping titanium with magic juice, after she wakes up, she would love the first living creature that he would see and forget his Indian pet. Magic juice is in a flower, which grew up on the place where Cupid arrows, bounced off the chaste virgin.

Fairy

Ile just with the appearance you are like him,
Il In fact, you're robin flush,
Buddy spirit. Not you in the villages
Maiden scare? Grains challenging himself?
You take off the cream and hard hours
Do you not give a worker to bring down the oil?
Do you spoil yeast in beer? You are fooling
Night traveler and get laundry?
And who calls you "Pak's friendship",
You're glad to help both Syak.
Tell me, are you?

Fairy and Pak

Arthur Rackham - Fairy and Pak

Arthur Rackham - Fairy and Pak

Oberon

Whether this meeting is good at the Moon,
Shooting Titania?

Titania

What is it?

Jealous Oberon? Understand, fairies!
I see him and the bed is hated.

Oberon and Titania

Joseph Noel Paton. Spore of Oberon and Titania

Alfred Fredericks. Titania and Oberon

Arthur Rackham - Titania and Oberon

Arthur Rackham. Titania

Arthur Rackham - Titania

Amateur-actors who have decided to play a play "Pirs and Fissab" at the Wedding are also coming to the forest. One of them - weaving motility (in another translation - the base) turns out to be facing a creature with a donkey head. Weaver with a donkey head first and sees titania after awakening and falls in love with him.

Titania

From this age, do not strive to leave.
You would not find anyway.
I am a creature of the rarest of breeds.
In my poses - summer all year round.
I love you too. Come, my friend.
Elf will run away for services,
So that the pearls for you search in the seas
And sing when you dreamed on colors.
I'm so cleaning your death
What are you, as a spirit, you will be over the ground.

Titania and foundation

Alfred Fredericks - Basis

ALFRED FREDERICKS - Titania and Motor (Basis)

ALFRED FREDERICKS - TITANIA AND BASIS

Edwin Landseer. Titania and foundation

John Anster Fitzgerald. Titania and foundation

Joseph Noel Paton. Titania and Motok (Basis)

Arthur Rekham - Titania and the Basis

Oberon witnessed the conversation of Elena and Demetrius, who rejects a girl in love. Oberon orders Paku to pour the eyes of a sleeping demetry with magic juice so that Demetriy love Elena. But the pack by mistake watering the juice of Lizandra's eyes and he falls in love with Elena, forgetting the love of Hermia. Correcting, Pak wipes his eyes and Demetrius and he also falls in love with Elena. Elena, who did not have a single fan, now acquires two and decides that Demetrius, Lizandr and Hermia want to swear over it. Herria is in bewilderment why Lizardr cooled to her. Demetrius and Lizardr go to fight for Heart Elena.

Arthur Rackham. Elena

Jones Simmons. Hermia and Lizandr.

ALFRED FREDERICKS - LIZANDR AND HERMIA

Alfred Fredericks - Hermia

Alfred Fredericks. Demetrius and Elena

Oberon orders Paku to remove the action of the magic juice from Lizandra, and he himself heals the titanium, who already gave him an Indian boy. Weat, his normal appearance is returned and, along with his comrades, playing a triple wedding: theses marries the hippolyte, Lizandr on Hermia, and Demetriy on his new love - Elena.

Oberon
(speaking)

A, Robin, Hello! See? Adjust.
I'm starting to regret poorly.
Now she selected on the edge
Flowers for this vile refinery;

Oberon, Titania and Motor (Basis)

Titania

My Oberon! Oh, what a nonfire!
I had a dream that I love donkey.

Oberon

Here he is, your gentle friend.

Oberon, Titania and Basis

Alfred Fredericks - Titania, Oberon and Basis

John Anster Fitzgerald - Oberon and Titania

William Blake. Oberon, Titania and Pack with Dancing Fairy

ALFRED FREDERICKS - TESSI AND IPPOLIT

Now I will tell you about two screen vessels of the comedy Shakespeare, which I watched, - 1935 of the release and 1999 release.

The film "Sleeping on the Summer Night" 1935 removed the director Max Reinhardt and William Dieterly. In this film, a wonderful fabulous atmosphere, especially fascinates the titanium played by Anita Louise. Mendelssohn's music is used as a musical design.

Frames from the movie "Sleeping in the Summer Night" (1935):

Oberon and Titania

Titania and foundation

Hermia (role executes Olivia de Haviland)

Elena (role executes Jean Muir)

From the modern decrees of "Sleeping on the Summer Night" I would like to celebrate the film of 1999 by Michael Hoffman's director, I like it even more than a 1935 film, despite some deviations from the source text of Shakespeare - the action is transferred to the Italian town of Athens the late 19th century, And Lizandr, Hermia, Demetrius and Elena chase through the forest on bicycles. If in the 1935 film the focus will be shifted towards the fairy tale, then in the 1999 film the main thing is not a fabulousness, but the comicness of what is happening, at the expense of this film looks in one breath. Titania plays. It is impossible to choose the best actress on this role and choose, Michelle Pfaiffer in the role of Queen Fay and Elves are simply magnificent.

Frames from the movie "Sleeping in the Summer Night" (1999):

Oberon and Titania

Titania and foundation

From the theatrical performances of the role of Titania, I can not mention Vivien Lee, she first reached the stage in the role of Titania in the play "Sleep in the Summer Night" on December 27, 1937.

Vivien Lee in the role of titanium

Tezay. , Duke Athens.

Aegea , Father Hermia.

Lizardr, Demetrius Lovers in Hermia.

Philostrat , Persecution manager at the courtyard of Tezay.

Pigva , a carpenter.

Milyaha , joiner.

The foundation , weak.

Dub , reinforcement inflatable fur.

Snout , Mednik.

Zapysh , tailor.

Ippolita , Queen Amazon, collapsed with theses.

Hermia Loving in Lizandra.

Elena Loved in Demetry.

Oberon , Tsar Fay and Elves.

Titania , Queen Fay and Elf.

PEC, or kind small robin , small elf.

Fragrant peas, cobweb, moth, mustard grain , elves.

Fairies and elves, submissive Oberon and Titania, Sweet.

The place of action is Athens and the forest nearby.

Act I.

Scene 1.

Athens, Tezay Palace.

Enter Tezay., Ippolita, Philostrat and sweet.

Tezay.

Beautiful, our marriage hour is getting closer:

Four days happy - new month

We will lead. But oh, how slow is old!

It is on the way to my wellats,

Like stepmother Ile old widow,

That young men income is stuck.

Ippolita

Four days in the night will raise fast;

Four nights in dreams so quickly await ...

And crescent - silver bow,

Stretched in heaven - illuminated

Night of our wedding!

Tezay.

Philostrat, go!

Shave all young people in Athens

And the frisky spirit of fun witness.

Sadness for funeral let it remain:

We do not need a pale guest on the feast.

Philostrat goes away.

Tezay.

I got you sword, Ippolita,;

Threats of love of yours achieved

Solemnly, and fun, and magnificent!

Enter Aegea, Hermia, Lizandr and Demetrius.

Aegea

Be happy, the nice duke is our toy!

Tezay.

Thank you, Aegea! What do you say?

Aegea

I'm in grief, with a complaint to you

On Hermia - yes, on my native daughter! -

Demetriy, come! - My sovereign,

That's the one who wanted to give my daughter. -

Lizardr and you approach! - My sovereign!

And this heart came to her. -

You, you, Lizandr! You wrote her poems

The pledges of love changed with her

Under the windows of her under the moonlight

Feigned to love the love of the feigned song!

You go to the move to capture her heart

Bracelets, hair rings, candy,

Flowers, balancing, striking - all

That youth inexperienced cute!

In cunning you kidnap her

You are obedient, due to father,

In stubbornness evil turned! - So if

She with you, my sovereign will not give

Consent Demetrius, I call

To the old Athenian law:

Once my daughter, I can oh

Place And I decided: Demetri

Or - as provided for by law

In such cases - immediate death!

Tezay.

Well, Hermia, beautiful maiden,

What do you say? Think of good.

He created your beauty, and you

They cast a wax form;

Her leave Il to smash - he is entitled.

Demetrius - a person is quite worthy.

Hermia

My Lizardr is also.

Tezay.

Yes, by itself;

But if your father is not for him,

That means that one is worthy.

Hermia

I wanted to watch my father

Tezay.

Not! Early your eyes

Must be subordinate to him.

Hermia

Sorry, your lordship, begging.

I don't know myself where I found courage,

And it is possible, not insulting modesty,

With all I have so fluently talk.

But I spell, I get to know:

What is the worst to me

When I won't go for demetry?

Tezay.

What? Death! Ile renunciation forever

From the society of men. That's why,

Oh Hermia, check yourself. Think:

You are young ... you ask your soul,

William Shakespeare

A dream in a summer night

CHARACTERS

Tezay. , Duke Athens.

Aegea , Father Hermia.

Lizardr, Demetrius Lovers in Hermia.

Philostrat , Persecution manager at the courtyard of Tezay.

Pigva , a carpenter.

Milyaha , joiner.

The foundation , weak.

Dub , reinforcement inflatable fur.

Snout , Mednik.

Zapysh , tailor.

Ippolita , Queen Amazon, collapsed with theses.

Hermia Loving in Lizandra.

Elena Loved in Demetry.

Oberon , Tsar Fay and Elves.

Titania , Queen Fay and Elf.

PEC, or kind small robin , small elf.

Fragrant peas, cobweb, moth, mustard grain , elves.

Fairies and elves, submissive Oberon and Titania, Sweet.

The place of action is Athens and the forest nearby.

Act I.

Scene 1.

Athens, Tezay Palace.

Enter Tezay., Ippolita, Philostrat and sweet.

Tezay.

Beautiful, our marriage hour is getting closer:

Four days happy - new month

We will lead. But oh, how slow is old!

It is on the way to my wellats,

Like stepmother Ile old widow,

That young men income is stuck.

Ippolita

Four days in the night will raise fast;

Four nights in dreams so quickly await ...

And crescent - silver bow,

Stretched in heaven - illuminated

Night of our wedding!

Tezay.

Philostrat, go!

Shave all young people in Athens

And the frisky spirit of fun witness.

Sadness for funeral let it remain:

We do not need a pale guest on the feast.

Philostrat goes away.

Tezay.

I got you sword, Ippolita,;

Threats of love of yours achieved

Solemnly, and fun, and magnificent!

Enter Aegea, Hermia, Lizandr and Demetrius.

Aegea

Be happy, the nice duke is our toy!

Tezay.

Thank you, Aegea! What do you say?

Aegea

I'm in grief, with a complaint to you

On Hermia - yes, on my native daughter! -

Demetriy, come! - My sovereign,

That's the one who wanted to give my daughter. -

Lizardr and you approach! - My sovereign!

And this heart came to her. -

You, you, Lizandr! You wrote her poems

The pledges of love changed with her

Under the windows of her under the moonlight

Feigned to love the love of the feigned song!

You go to the move to capture her heart

Bracelets, hair rings, candy,

Flowers, balancing, striking - all

That youth inexperienced cute!

In cunning you kidnap her

You are obedient, due to father,

In stubbornness evil turned! - So if

She with you, my sovereign will not give

Consent Demetrius, I call

To the old Athenian law:

Once my daughter, I can oh

Place And I decided: Demetri

Or - as provided for by law

In such cases - immediate death!

Tezay.

Well, Hermia, beautiful maiden,

What do you say? Think of good.

He created your beauty, and you

They cast a wax form;

Her leave Il to smash - he is entitled.

Demetrius - a person is quite worthy.

Hermia

My Lizardr is also.

Tezay.

Yes, by itself;

But if your father is not for him,

That means that one is worthy.

Hermia

I wanted to watch my father

Tezay.

Not! Early your eyes

Must be subordinate to him.

Hermia

Sorry, your lordship, begging.

I don't know myself where I found courage,

And it is possible, not insulting modesty,

With all I have so fluently talk.

But I spell, I get to know:

What is the worst to me

When I won't go for demetry?

Tezay.

What? Death! Ile renunciation forever

From the society of men. That's why,

Oh Hermia, check yourself. Think:

You are young ... you ask your soul,

When you come against your father's will:

Able to wear a nurse outfit

Forever be concluded in the monastery,

All my life live the nuns fruitless

And sadly sing the moon of cold hymns?

The stock edge is blessed who blood is humbled,

So that on Earth the path to virgin to accomplish;

But rose, in the fault, dissolved,

The happiest that on the bush is innocent

Flowers, lives, dies - all lonely!

Hermia

So I blossom, and live, and die

I want more than maiden rights

Give it to power! His Yarma

My soul does not want to conquer.

Tezay.

Think, Hermia! On the day of Novolunya

(A day that I will connect me with my love

For eternal commodity) should

You are ready: or die

For a violation of father's will,

Il to get married with whom he chose,

Il to give forever at the Altar Diana

Vale of a celler and harsh life.

Demetrius

Softech, oh Hermia! - And you, Lizandr,

My rights are indisputable to give ways.

Lizandr

Demetriy, since the father loves you so much,

Give me a daughter, and marry himself!

Aegea

The mocker daring! Yes, father's love -

Behind him and with her everything is what I own.

But my daughter is mine, and all rights above it

I give Demetriya in full!

Lizandr

But, the sovereign, I am equal to him

And wealth; I love stronger;

By clause, I'm not lower than

Rather, even higher than demetry;

And most importantly - which exceeds everything -

I love Hermia beautiful!

Why do I replace from my rights?

Demetrius - Yes, I will tell him in the face -

In Elena, the daughter was recent, was in love.

Her joined him. Gentle Elena

Unstable insensually loves

Bogatvit an empty man!

Tezay.

Confess, I heard about it

And even thought to cake with him;

But engaged in the most important affairs

Forgot about that. - Go with me, Demetriy,

And you, Aegea! Go with me both

And we find what to talk about! -

Well, Hermia, try to subordinate

Your dreams will be the wishes of the Father

Not the law of Athens

(Which we can not change)

To death or for eternal celbacy. -

Well, Ippolit ... What, my love?

We go ... - Demetrius and Aegea - after me.

I will instruct you to arrange something

To the solemn day and ceiling

About what is concerned both.

Aegea

We are always debt to fulfill our debt.

Tezay., Ippolita, Aegea, Demetrius and sweet go.

Lizandr

Well, my love? How pale cheeks!

How quickly suddenly the roses fade on them!

Hermia

Not because there is no rain which

From the storm eyes of my eyes easily.

Lizandr

Alas! I have never heard

And did not read - in the history of Lee, in the fairy tale, -

So I smooth was the path of true love.

But - or the difference in the origin ...

Hermia

About Mount! Higher - captivate the lowest! ...

Lizandr

Or different in the years ...

Hermia

About Mock!

To be too old for young bride!

Lizandr

Il selection of loved ones and friends ...

Hermia

But how to love someone else's choice?

Lizandr

And if the choice is good, - War,

Disease ILE death always threaten love

And make it like sound instant

As a shadow, volatile and, like a dream, short.

So zipper, shining in the darkness of the night,

Will express angry heaven and land,

And before exclaiming, we: "Look!" -

It will absorb the abyss of darkness -

All bright disappears so quickly.

Hermia

But if for lovers inevitably

Suffering and such is the law of fate,

So we will be patient in testing:

After all, it is for love a conventional cross,

Decent she, - Dreams, Torlenya, Tears,

Welcome, dreams - love of the unfortunate retinue!

Lizandr

Yes, you are right ... But, Hermia, listen:

There is a aunt with me. She is a widow,

Rich, childless.

Lives from here miles so in seven.

So: she loves me as a son!

There, Hermia, we can get married.

Brutal Athenian laws

There will not find us. If you really love

Tomorrow you leave the night at night.

In the forest, in three miles from Athens, in the place,

Where I met you with Elena (you came

To accomplish the rites as May morning, remember?),

I will wait for you.

Hermia

O MY LIZANDR!

I swear to the custody cupid bow,

His arrow is the best, golden,

Veineleys of doves purity,

Fire in which Didon rushed,

When Trojan raised Sails, -

Everyone than love is associated heaven,

Darkness of the oath of male, impaired godless

(What women cannot catch up with them)

I swear: in the forest specified by you,

I'll be tomorrow night, my dear!

Included Elena.

Lizandr

You will hold back the oath ... but look - Elena!

Hermia

Hey! Where are you going, my friend is beautiful?

Elena

Beautiful - me? Oh, do not joke in vain.

Your beauty demet is captivated,

Happy! Your eye shines

What is the lark of the song among the fields ...

Be beauty sticky alert -

I would have become infected with you, my friend!

Would one of you would have perch

And glitter eyes, and the tenderness of speech is sweet ...

Be my whole world - Demetriya speedy

I took myself; All other - owned!

But teach me: what kind of art

Demetry have you seen feeling?

Hermia

I crumpled an eyebrow - he loves everything stronger.

Elena

Such power - my smile!

Hermia

Klyan him - it is only brighter than the flame!

Elena

Oh, if I soften him with plenty!

Hermia

The tougher I, the more gentle with me!

Elena

What I am gentle, the harder he is with me!

Hermia

In his madness - not my fault.

Elena

Your beauty! Oh, be mine, wines!

Hermia

I will not meet him anymore: do not suffer.

We will leave this edge forever!

While I lived here, love is not knowing,

Athens seemed to me better than Paradise ...

And here - love! What is good she

When from paradise to make hell free?

Lizandr

Elena, friend, I will open everything to you:

NEWSTRA in the night, barely narrow

Your face is sober in the mirror river,

Introduction to the liquid pearl, -

Per hour that lovers of secrets takes

We will come out with her from the city gate.

Hermia

In the forest where often lying between flowers,

We shared girlish dreams,

My Lizardr must meet me,

And we will leave our native city,

Looking for other friends, a different circle.

Goodbye, children's girlfriend games!

Please, about our in our fate,

And God went demetry to you. -

So remember the passage, Lizandr: until night

We must fast will be our eyes.

Lizandr

Yes, Hermia is my ...

Hermia goes away.

Goodbye, Elena!

Demetry love you wish you.

(Goes out.)

Elena

How happy one to the detriment of the other!

In Athens, I am equal to her beauty ...

What about? He is blind to my glory:

Does not want to know what everyone knows.

He is in delusion, Hermia captive;

I - also, admiring blindly.

Love is able to forgive

And in the valor of the vices turn

And not eyes - the heart chooses:

For that, its blind is depicted.

It is difficult for her with common sense to reconcile.

Without eyes - and wings: a symbol of reckless

Sensity! ... her name is child;

After all, it's easy to deceive her joking.

And how in the game the worms are born,

So she is easy and nipple deception.

Until he was Hermia Captive,

Then the hail of the oaths in love I swore;

But only from Hermia removed the heat -

Dried hail, and with him all oaths in vain.

I will go, I will reveal their ideas:

He, right, in the forest will go at night sometimes;

And if you get gratitude,

I am expensive for this.

But I'm in my longing and this is a lot -

With him together in the forest and the road from the forest!

(Goes out.)

Scene 2.

Athens. Room in the hut.

Enter Pigva, Milyaha, The foundation, Dub, Snout and Zapysh.

Pigva

Is our company whole?

The foundation

And you better make a roll ring: call us all on the list.

Pigva

Here is a list with the names of everyone who found little suitable to present our interming before the duke and the duchess evening on their marriage.

The foundation

First of all, the kindest Peter Pigva, tell us what the play is, then read the names of the actors - and come to the point!

Pigva

Right! Our play is "the preailed comedy and a very cruel death of pram and fesby."

The foundation

Excellent thing, I assure you in the word, and overhanded! Well, the kindest Peter Pigva, now call all the actors on the list. Citizens, get into a row!

Pigva

Answer on call! ... nickname!

The foundation

There is! Name my role and continue the rollback.

Pigva

You, nickname, outlined for piram.

The foundation

What is peirs? Lover or villain?

Pigva

Lover who prevented himself kills himself because of love.

The foundation

Yeah! So, there are tears here to play it as it should. Well, if I take it for this role - prepare, public, handkerchiefs! I'll raise the storm ... I will smooth to some extent ... But, to tell the truth, the main thing about the vocation is the role of villains. Erkules I would like a rarity played or in general such a role so that the land is nibble and all the circle into squeaks!

Hearing the roar

Strikes fighters -

And collapses

Cruel dungeon.

And Fib, bright God,

Far and high

Change evil rock

From your chariot!

What was it? Cancelled, huh? Well, call other actors. Here you were the manner of Yerkles, the nature of the villain; Lover - where tearful.

Pigva

Francis Dudka, reinforcement of inflatable fur.

Dub

There is Peter Pigva!

Pigva

You have to take on the role of fesby.

Dub

And who will be fesby? Wrong knight?

Pigva

No, this is a lady, in love with femors.

Dub

No, I ask you, do not force me to play a woman: my beard makes his way!

Pigva

Does not mean anything; You can play a mask and you will squeak the most thin voice.

The foundation

BUT! If you can play in a mask - let's, I will play you and fist: I can speak a monstrously thin voice. "Your, your ... ah, female, my lover is dear! I am your fesby dear, I'm your lady dear! "

Pigva

Not! Not! You have to play a pram, and you, a twin, - fist.

The foundation

Pigva

Robin Zaporch, tailor!

Zapysh

There is Peter Pigva!

Pigva

Zaporch, you will play the mother of fesby. - Thomas Ryl, Mednik!

Snout

There is Peter Pigva!

Pigva

You are Pirs Father. I will play Fisin Father. - Milyaha, joiner, you get the role of lion. Well, I hope that the play diverges from us perfectly.

Milyaha

Do you have a role of Lion rewritten? Now you will give her now, otherwise I have a memory of a very tight to study.

Pigva

There is nothing to learn here, and so you will play: you will only have to growl.

The foundation

Let me play you and Lion! I will go so that you will be happy to rejoice; I will go so that the duke himself will definitely say: "And well, let him still porridge him, let him still get it!"

Pigva

Well, if you go so scary, you, perhaps, the duchess and all the ladies will crush to death; They also wrap up, and this will be pretty tolerant of all of us!

Yes, yes, we will overweight to one!

The foundation

This is me with you, friends, I agree that if we are taking the ladies, so the best will not come up with anything, as we all take up. But I will be able to give my voice so much that I will grow out gently that your ducky chuck; I will dig you, that your galley!

Pigva

There is no role to play any role, except for the pyrma, because the femors are a beautiful well done, just such a real man in the color of the years, a first-class man, good-bought, with manners, well, in a word, exactly like you ... you only and Play a pram.

The foundation

Okay, I agree, take a role. And in what beard to me to play it?

Pigva

Yes, what you want.

The foundation

Okay. I will imagine it in a beard of straw color. Or better in orange-brown? Or in purple-red? Or maybe the color of the French crown is a purely yellow color?

Pigva

In some French crowns, there are no hair at all, and you will have to play with a naked physiognomy ... - Well, citizens, here are your roles, and I ask you, begging you and I spell you - to drive them away by heart at tomorrow. And in the evening, come to the Palace Forest, in one mile from the city: there we will arrange a rehearsal during the lunar light. And then, if we gather in the city, they pierce and get out our venture. In the meantime, I will make a list of butaforia that we need for the play. And I ask you - do not let me down.

The foundation

Come necessarily. There it will be possible to rehearse, as they say, is unceremonious, more stronger. Try, do not hit the dirt face! While be healthy!

Pigva

Meeting - at the duccian oak.

The foundation

Okay. Although you wish, but be on the spot.

Go.

Act II.

Scene 1.

Forest near Athens.

Appear from different sides fairy and PEC.

A, Fairy! Hello! Where is your way?

Above the hills, over dollars

Through the thranger, by bushes,

Above the waters, through the flame

I wandered here and there!

I'm flying the moon faster,

I serve Queen Fay,

Books - her convoy.

See the golden outfit?

The specks on it are lit:

Then rubies, the color of the queen, -

In them, the whole flavor is lighted.

For the books, I need a stock of Rosinkov -

Purpose each in the ears from pearls.

Farewell, the spirit-tooth! I am flying forward.

Here the queen with elves will come.

My king here will have fun at night, -

Look, so that the queen was not met with him!

He comes over with her, angry - fear!

Because of the child, that with her

(Kidnapped by Indian Sultan).

She pampers, riseling the worker,

And Oberon-jealous wants to take

His herself to wander with him in the forests.

The queen is all joy sees in it,

Do not give! Since then only over the stream,

On the illuminated light of the stars

They will come together - in the middle of the pass,

Yes, so that elves are all with fear - away,

Rock in acorn and tremble all night!

Yes, you ... I'm not mistaken, perhaps:

Hawts, kind ... Are you kind small robin?

The one who scares rural hands-made

Breaks them and spoils the handles of the mills,

Interferes with oil to confuse

Then cream raises from milk,

Then get driving frowning in Brage,

That night leads travelers in the ravine;

But if someone calls him his boyfriend -

Topics helps, happiness contributes to the house.

Well, yes, I am kind small robin,

Merry spirit, night tramp stagnation.

In the jokes of Oberon, I serve ...

Then in front of the full stallion

As a mare; That is still fooling:

Suddenly apple baked in a circle hiding,

And only a fear of the bitter bread,

From there I am on her lips - IC! Both chest

I sag up the whole will be a beer.

Ile aunt that leads the story to cry

Three-year chairs will show the corner:

Suddenly slipping by trap! - Aunt on the floor.

Well, coughing, well, yelling! Make fun!

Everyone dying, blowing away from laughter,

And, for the sides, holding the whole choir,

That did not laugh so much before ...

But, fairy, away! Here is the king. Go from here.

But she! Ah, it would not be bad!

Come on one side Oberon with mine sweet, with another Titania With his.

Oberon

Not in good time I'm with a shine moon

Titania meeting.

Titania

How are you, jealous Oberon? -

Lethemte, elves, away! I repent

From the society and the Oberon Lodge.

From the mid-summer we can't

Fall into the meadows, in the forest, at the noisy river,

In the stone of the wedder,

On the golden sand, washed by the sea,

Led circles for whistles and wind songs,

So that the scream did not interfere with our games!

And the winds are in vain sang songs in vain.

They raised from the sea

Malicious fogs. Those rain

On the ground fell. Rivers angry

And came out, getting down, from the shores.

Since then, in vain pulls the Volume of Yarm

In vain Pakhaar pours his sweat: bread

Digid, do not reflect the mustache.

Empty pens in bombarded fields,

From the crows fell dusted ...

Dirt brought tracks of funny games;

There are no paths in green labyrinths:

Zaros of their trail, and not find it!

All death winters are rather asked;

Do not hear songs at night ...

And here is the moon, the ruler of the waters,

Pale from anger, the air is allochal

And rheumatism spread everywhere.

All times are prevented in confusion:

And falls gray-headed frost

To Punchy rose in fresh arms;

But to the crown of ice winter

Wreath fragrant from summer buds

In the mockery attached. Spring and summer,

Falling autumn and winter

Change the outfit, and can not

The world is amazed to distinguish between times!

But such disasters appeared

All because of our quarrels and disagreements:

We are their reason, we create them.

Oberon

In your hands, change everything: what

Titania will re-overcome Oberon?

After all, I ask a little: give

You're a boy in fizz me!

Titania

Stay calm:

For your whole edge, I will not give magic!

After all, his mother was mine priestess!

With her spicy air nights indian

On golden neptune sands

We were often sitting, the ships count.

Laughed with her, looking like sails,

Pregnant wind, inflated ...

She joking them nice imitated

(At that time she was hard

My favorite) and sailed as if

With some bale returning

To me, as if from a swimming with a commodity ...

But my girlfriend was my girlfriend,

And this boy was worth his life.

Loving her, baby I am sleek;

Loving her, I will not give it!

Oberon

How long will you spend here in the forest?

Titania

Must be before the wedding of the withkey.

Kohl want to dance peacefully with us

And having fun at the moon - stay.

Oberon

Give your child, I'll go with you!

Titania

For no magic edge! - For me, elves!

Kohl will not leave - they will argue forever.

Titania and her sweet go.

Oberon

Go! You will not leave the forest before,

Than for the insult I will not accept. -

My dear Pack, come here! Do you remember"

As I listened to the sea Sirena's Song,

Walking to the dolphin on the ridge?

So sweet and harmonious were

Those sounds that the rude ocean itself

The courtee also assured this song,

And the stars like insane, broke off

From your heights to listen to the song ...

Oberon

At that moment I saw (at least you did not see):

Between moon cold and earth

A armed Cupid flew.

In reigning in the west Vestka

He was aiming and so let the arrow,

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