Both Uses of
interlude
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- QUINCE Here is the scroll of every man's name, which is thought fit, through all Athens, to play in our interlude before the duke and duchess on his wedding-day at night.†
Scene 1.2 *
- WALL In this same interlude it doth befall That I, one Snout by name, present a wall: And such a wall as I would have you think That had in it a crannied hole or chink, Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisby, Did whisper often very secretly.†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
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(interlude) a short period with an activity different than that occurring during longer periods before or after it
or:
music: brief music played between longer sections of a musical work