Note 606 — VI THE MASK (continued)

For the spectacle as dream, cf. Henry VIII, iv. 2; Cymbeline, v. 4, which, like the epiphany in A. Y. L. v. 4, perhaps illustrates the point all the better in that it is probably an interpolation; for the spectacle as magic show, Marlowe, Dr. Faustus, 515, 721, 1263; Macbeth, iv. 1; Tempest, iii. 3, and the mock magic of Merry Wives, v. 5. The mask of Tempest, iv. 1, is of course both mask and magic.