Quote
“The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
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What does this quotation mean?
Theseus asks the audience to lend its imagination to an amateur performance.
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Source: A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Act V, scene 1
Edition: Project Gutenberg Shakespeare text
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