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The Globe’s Romeo and Juliet    • Lesson 2: "Rebellious Subjects"  

Adrian Lester as Hamlet:    • Adrian Lester as Hamlet: ‘To be or not to ...  

Roshan Maloney as Macbeth:    • Roshan Golconda as Macbeth (“Tomorrow, and...  

Royal Shakespeare Company's King Lear:    • King Lear, Act 5 Scene 3 - stage scene - NY  

Okay so I lied a little. It’s not a hard and fast rule in A Midsummer Night’s Dream that the rhyme is maintained when things are going well, and it disappears when the characters begin to fight… but look at the way the character of Hermia changes from when she’s sweet to when she’s ANGRY:

Hermia when things are going well:
And in the wood, where often you and I
Upon faint primrose-beds were wont to lie,
Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,
There my Lysander and myself shall meet;
And thence from Athens turn away our eyes,
To seek new friends and stranger companies.

Hermia ready to gouge out someone’s eyes:
And are you grown so high in his esteem;
Because I am so dwarfish and so low?
How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak;
How low am I? I am not yet so low
But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.