Shakespeare's Influence | Shakespeare and the Painter and Illustrator
"I have had a most rare vision." Bottom's confusion of dreaming and waking, his mixture of biblical theology (quoting the Epistles of St. Paul and St. John, if with some confounding of the senses) with the activity of the more sinister world within the play—all this corresponds to the two poles of the comedy, the joyful reconciliation of the alienated lovers and the dark exploration of a supernatural world shot through with aggression and malice. Puck does well in the end to reveal his allegiance to "the triple Hecate," while "following darkness like a dream."
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