...much for those in an unaltered state of consciousness, Puck (Stanley Tucci) suggests: "If we shadows have offended think but this and all is mended. That you have but slumbered here while these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme no more yielding but a...

...End of the Beginning To part, allow me to invoke the Bard at his own Globe Theatre20: "If we shadows have offended, "Think but this, and all is mended, "That you have but slumb'red here "While these visions did appear" "Gentles, do no reprehend. "If you pardon, we will...

...repetition, along with its promise to make all things right, echo Quince's Prologue: If we shadows have offended, Think but this and all is mended: That you have but slumbered here, While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but...

...her, and Demetrius, at least, is still enchanted. At the play's end, Puck concludes: If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber 'd here, While these visions did appear The happiness at the play's end is just as illusory...

...didn't have to open the book to remember that famous quotation from Puck's final lines: If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here, While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but...

...tour he would suddenly out of nowhere begin reciting a passage from this play, such as: "If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear." The wackiest, though, of these self-imposed interruptions...

...在此小睡一場， 台上幻象來來往往。 這齣戲曲膚淺薄弱， 夢幻一回算是結果。 If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a...

...everyone rousing and happy. Finale of the dance. An actor steps forward.) MALE ACTOR. If we players have offended Think but this and all is mended That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream...

...at a liveried footman standing stiffly to attention by the exit. — Postscript — "If we shadows have offended, Think but this and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here, While these visions did appear. " Tuesday, August 28, 2008 W. Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night's...

...But despite the toughness of its defences, the play's world is fragile in another way : If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumb'red here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a...