Act V Commentary

Scene 1

The prologue to the play is hilariously silly. I was chuckling through it all. The plot is completely exposed and done so it such a false, grandoise way. It really was a mockery of the "simpleness" of the actors.

The play is funny in and of itself. How many times can a dying actor say "die" before they actually do so???

The nice, rounded ending of all the fairies "blessing" the new marriages fully completes the story. For a comedy, it is the right kind of gentle and peaceful tranquility, not side-splitting humor, to close it all out. It just seemed right to me. And of course, it couldn't end without a reference to the dream nature of it all.