 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 dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend.  The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes - Page 150by William Shakespeare - 1767Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Leggatt - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 260 pages
...the matter of illusion - and its good or bad effects - quizzically open to question: If we shadows have offended, Think but this and all is mended, That you have have slumb' red here While these visions did appear. (5.1.423-26) The Taming of the Shrew poses the... | |
 | Susan Wise Bauer - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 444 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles de Lint - Fiction - 2003 - 422 pages
...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... | |
 | Leslie Halpern - Performing Arts - 2010 - 216 pages
...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... | |
 | Stuart E. Omans, Maurice J. O'Sullivan - Drama - 2003 - 270 pages
...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... | |
 | Agustín A. Gordillo - Democracy - 2003 - 167 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Arthur Rackham - Art - 2003 - 180 pages
...make no stay ; Meet me all by break of day. [Exeunt OBERON, TITANIA, and train. PUCK. If we shadows have offended. Think but this, and all is mended, That you have bid slumber d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but... | |
 | John J. Watkins - Games & Activities - 2004 - 282 pages
...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... | |
 | Andrew Sherman - Drama - 2004 - 50 pages
...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... | |
 | 彭鏡禧 - English drama - 2004 - 504 pages
...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... | |
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