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Hidden : 8/18/2008
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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'm 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.

(Midsummer Nights Dream, Epilogue, 1-16)



A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.

Puck is Oberon's servant and is sent by Oberon, who is angry with Titania the fairy queen, to fetch the flower that has been hit by one of cupid's arrows and is told to apply its juice to the eyelids of Titania so that when she wakes up, she will fall in love with the next creature that she sees. Oberon also orders Puck to use the love juice to mend the love problems occurring between the Athenian lovers who also happen to be running about in the forest. He mistakenly administers the charm to the sleeping Lysander instead of Demetrius. Puck provides Nick Bottom with a donkey's head so that Titania will fall in love with a beast and forget her attachment to the Changeling Boy, allowing Oberon to take the child from her. (Oberon does so successfully.) Later, Puck is ordered by Oberon to fix the mistake he (Puck) made, by producing a dark fog, leading the lovers astray within it by imitating their voices, and then applying more of the flower to Lysander's eyes, which will reverse the effect. The four lovers are then made to believe that they simply dreamt everything that took place in the forest (hence the play's title A Midsummer Night's Dream). At the end of the play Puck makes a speech directly to the audience. Puck apologizes to the audience for anything that might have offended them and suggests that they pretend it was a dream. This monologue directly addresses the audience and ties them in to the play.

Welcome to the fourth and final regular in my series of Shakespeare caches. All through high school, my favorite part of English was always studying Shakespeare, I even took a class just on Shakespeare while in college. This series is designed to familiarize you with some of the more famous soliloquies from Shakespeare's works. In addition to re familiarizing yourself with Shakespeare, you are also treated to awesome views of Red Deer we have discovered in our caching travels. You're looking for a camo'd lock n lock container, containing the usual swag and log book.

EDIT AUG 25/09: cache is no longer part of a puzzle, and is now just a standalone cache. final has been archived.

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