AMND Act 5 Quotes

Question 1

Theseus quote about lunatics and lovers etc

Answer 1

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet / Are of imagination all compact: / One sees more devils than vast hell can hold (…) How easy is a bush suppos’d a bear!”

Question 2

Philostrate quote on the mechanicals

Answer 2

“Hard-handed men that work in Athens here, / Which never labour’d in their minds till now (…) It is not for you: I have heard it over, / And it is nothing, nothing in the world”

Question 3

Hippolyta’s criticism of the play

Answer 3

“Indeed he hath played on this prologue like a child on a recorder; a sound, but not in government.’” (…)
“This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.” (…)
“I am weary of this moon. Would he would change!”

Question 4

Bottom comes out of his role

Answer 4

(To Theseus) “No, in truth sir, he should not. ‘Deceiving me’ is Thisbe’s cue”

Question 5

Hippolyta changes her criticisms

Answer 5

“We’ll shine, Moon! Truly, the moon shines with a good grace” (…)
“Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man.”

Question 6

Theseus’ final couple words

Answer 6

“The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. / Lovers, to bed; ‘tis almost fairy time.”

Question 7

Puck on his job of sweeping dust

Answer 7

“Following darkness like a dream (…) I am sent with broom before / To sweep the dust behind the door.”

Question 8

Titania’s final words

Answer 8

“Hand in hand, with fairy grace, / We will sing, and bless this place.”

Question 9

Puck’s final words to audience

Answer 9

“If we shadows have offended, / Think but this, and all is mended, / That you have but slumber’d here / While these visions did appear. (…) Give me your hands, if we be friends, / And Robin shall restore amends.”