A Midsummer Night's Dream

This extract is taken from Shakespeare's, "A Midsummer Night's Dream,"
The Mechanics are putting on a production of "Pyramus and Thisby." The extract is the prologue of their play.
It begins with an amusing start. Quince, the man incharge, reads out from a scroll the introduction of the play they are putting on. He is a rather pompous character, who felt important and clever though he is not. As he reads the words out he pauses in all the wrong places, and in doing this, instead of welcoming the audience, he tells them that they are going to be made unhappy! Shakespeare had written this in a way that if the punctuation was incorrect, then the reader could give completely the wrong impression that they wanted to.
As it continues it becomes even more farcical, in the prologue it says, " this beauteous lady is certain." I found this amusing, because Thisby is played by a man, and Quince is telling us that he is a beautiful woman!
It was also comical b...