“I’ll note you in my book of memory.” (from Shakespeare’s Henry VI Part 1)

One of my favorite Shakespearean plays is A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’s magical, it’s lyrical, and it’s incredibly funny.

In this comedy, a mischievous sprite named Puck (sometimes called Robin Goodfellow) plays tricks on the other characters in the play. Like most of Shakespeare’s comedies, by the end of the play, the characters fall in love and there is a wedding. When reading the play I like to imagine Puck as a Peter Pan or Tinker Bell-type character, only more of a troublemaker.

This play is filled with fun language. My fellow explorer Christopher spoke the last lines of the play called the epilogue. In these lines, Puck apologizes to the audience in case anyone was offended by the play. We filmed this in an empty room and hope that you will use your imagination to create your own setting as he recites the lines.

To get you thinking about the ways Puck and the play could look, we’ve provided this picture.

My own epilogue: Our adventure in London is now at an end.

After I finished packing, I headed off for one last day in the city. I passed the Shakespeare’s Globe, the Clink Prison Museum, and Tas Restaurant one last time. I loved learning about Shakespeare’s past and England today. I loved meeting many different people and hearing about their unique jobs.

We hailed a cab, and said goodbye to the staff of our hotel. On the way to the airport, as I looked out the windows, all I could think was: “England - you’re smashing!”

Parting is such sweet sorrow,

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