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• Finlay's Lost Drawings For Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" • essay by Gerry de la Ree
•  Egeus: "Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Egeus: "Thou hast, by moonlight, at her window sung." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Hermia: "...that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen, when the false Troyan under sail was seen." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Quince: "Is all our company here?" • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Fairy: "Farewell, thou lob of spirits." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Puck: "The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale, sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Oberon: "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Oberon: "The juice of it, on sleeping eyelids laid, will make or man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature it sees." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Oberon: "Thou shalt know the man by the Athenian garments he has on." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Hermia: "Lie further off, yet; do not lie so near." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Quince: "O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted!" • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Titania: "Be kind and courteous to this gentle man." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Puck: "My mistress with a monster is in love." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Puck: "This is the woman, but not this the man." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Helena: "O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent to set against me, for your merriment." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Lysander: "I will shake thee from me like a serpent." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Puck: "Here, villain; drawn and ready. Where are thou?" • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Theseus: "I know you two are rival enemies; how comes this gentle concord in the world?" • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Bottom: "I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Prolog: "If we offend, it is with our good will." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Prolog: "And as she fled, her mantle she did fall." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Prolog: "Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade, he bravely broach'd his boiling bloody breast." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Moon: "This lantern doth the horned moon present." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
•  Oberon: "To the best bride-bed will we, which by us shall blessed be." • (1935) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay