This is the fifth of six posts on A Midsummer Night’s Dream as part of the Reading Shakespeare A Play A Month Reading Challenge hosted by Risa of Breadcrumb Reads.
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We are finally here at the last act of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I actually just made this post so that there will be a balance of posts on the play as for the next play, there would be only one and will be be about the entire play and not a post after every Act. 
In this Act, we get to see the play that the laborers had rehearsed. Before that, Theseus and Hippolyta discuss the events that the four young lovers related to them about what happened to them in the forests. Theseus dismisses it as a dream.
The play out on by the laborers turn out to be comical and while the laborers are performing the play, we also get to hear the comments from the nobles, which weren’t exactly complimentary.
After the play, Oberon and Titania come to bless the marriage of the three couples. Puck is left behind to deliver his message to the audience and think of what has happened as a dream.
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 dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend.
If you pardon, we will mend.
This act further reiterates the theme of dreams. Theseus dismisses the story of the four lovers as a dream and Puck addresses the audience no less that what they have witnessed was actually just a dream.
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