HOLD ON, i just finished reading a midsummer's night dream and i have something to say in relation to dead poets society.
at the end of the play puck (neil) apologies for the play, and in a way i like to see it as neil apologising for the play.
he (neil/puck) invites the audience to view this play as a dream if they do not like it and i might be going insane but it seems to me like neil could be addressing these lines to his father. in fact we see mr. perry's reaction to (specifically) the lines: "think but this, and all is mended, that you have but slumber'd here, while these visions did appear", which apologize for the play. and all the other reactions we see are to the lines that refer to apologising for the play AHHH
alternate ending to a midsummer's night dream: lysander, demtrius, helena and hermia all get together and they decide to become a polycule. they call themselves the midsummer polycule and they're all in love.
I forgot that I have 12 years of having to analyse Shakespeare’s language, so here is Puck’s speech about the backstory to Midsummer Night’s Dream spoken as modern gossip.
(This was way harder to perform than the Shakespeare version. Also Titania is 100% in the right here. The Prince is the half-orphaned son of one of her friends and followers whom she promised to look after if something happened)