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Puck’s Closing Speech

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Puck’s Closing Speech

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📖 Part 1: Read the Speech

Puck:

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.

And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to ’scape the serpent’s tongue,
We will make amends ere long.

Else the Puck a liar call.
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.

1. Who is speaking in this speech?

Oberon

Puck

Bottom

Theseus

2. Who does Puck seem to be speaking to?

The audience

The fairies only

The mechanicals only

Oberon and Titania

3. In the speech, what does “slumber’d” mean?

Fought

Slept

Danced

Travelled

4. What does Puck ask the audience to do if they have enjoyed the play?

Applaud loudly

Leave immediately

Forgive the play and accept it as a dream

Sing a song

✏️ Part 2: Understand and Analyse

5. What does Puck mean when he says, “If we shadows have offended”?
6. Find one word or phrase that suggests the events of the play may have been imaginary.
7. Explain how Puck tries to make the audience feel friendly towards him. Use evidence from the speech.
8. What is the effect of the image “the serpent’s tongue”? What might it represent?
9. Choose two words to describe Puck’s tone at the end of the speech. Explain your choices.

Apologetic

Threatening

Friendly

Playful

Angry

🎭 Part 3: Performance and Response

10. Imagine you are directing an actor playing Puck. How should the final four lines be spoken? Describe the actor’s voice, facial expression and movement.
11. Write one modern-English sentence that sums up Puck’s message to the audience.

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