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Position:Home>Theater & Acting> 10 points best answer!!! What does the speech in here mean?Question:If we shadows have offended, ? ? ? Think but this, and all is mended, ? ? ? That you have but slumber'd here, ? ? ? While these visions did appear. A. The audience should be offended by the poor acting. B. It the audience thinks it's a bad play, it's not the actors' fault. C. If there were flaws in the play, the audience should think they were dreaming. D. The playwright will try to do a better job the next time. Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: If we shadows have offended, ? ? ? Think but this, and all is mended, ? ? ? That you have but slumber'd here, ? ? ? While these visions did appear. A. The audience should be offended by the poor acting. B. It the audience thinks it's a bad play, it's not the actors' fault. C. If there were flaws in the play, the audience should think they were dreaming. D. The playwright will try to do a better job the next time. "If we shadows have offended": If we, the actors, have put on a bad play "Think but this, and all is mended": Just pretend this to make it better "That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear": That you were sleeping in your seats instead of actually watching the play, so you didn't see anything but a dream. C, in other words. Hope this helps! Let me give you a hint and see if you can figure it out on your own: "Slumber'd" means "were sleeping." To slumber is to sleep. Visions and shadows are things that aren't real, but that we might see while we're sleeping. C I'm inclined to say "C" from the context of the word 'slumber'd'. ;) The viewer was offended by the play But if they realized this, they will understand They fell asleep It was all just a dream Hope this Helped. CCM_X3 the best answer would be C. It is definitely C but ... it could be B .... but no maybe D .... or is it A. NO definitely C .... I think! I'm gunna go with C. An actor is a 'shadow' of a real person. If you are offended by the play, assume you were dreaming because there was no intention to offend. Of course it's C. You've gotten a ton of answers but you have yet to choose a best... Marianne |