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Bibliography: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare, William
- Title
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Author
- Shakespeare, William
- Date
- 1600
- Genre
- drama
- Note Source
- Alexander's Bridge Chap. X
- Note Relating to Cather
- The "new feeling" of Bartley's desire for Hilda "put a girdle round the earth while he was going from New York to Moorlock," an allusion to Puck's "I'll put a girdle round about the earth/In forty minutes" (II.i. 175-6).