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Shakespeare’s England
The Dream with Christopher Schram
Day 30

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, and Christopher found a speech to share with you. What a treat to see and hear one of my fellow explorers working with a Shakespeare text, no matter how short.

Christopher spoke the last lines of the play called the epilogue. In these lines, Puck apologizes to 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 line. To get you thinking about the ways Puck and the play could look, we've given you a picture.

I love this character because he is just a little naughty - which is fun to watch someone play.

Play on!

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