Both Uses
interlude
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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- 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.†
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- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(interlude) a break or intervening period between main events; in theatre or music, a short performance between acts of a play or movements of a musical pieceMore rarely, an interlude may not be shorter than the periods surrounding it, but may be less significant, as in "the quiet summer interlude between political conventions."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)