The Hidden Truths of the Craftsmen's Play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare follows the story of four lovers and their trials to be together. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare uses symbolism and imagery throughout the play. One of the most comical ways he uses both imagery and symbolism is through the game of Craftsmen (by SparkNotes). The Craftsmen game uses both symbolism and imagery through the wall, lion and moon. In the craftsmen's play the actors use a wall, played by the muzzle, to separate Pyramus and Thisbe. Just as Hermia and Lysander were forbidden to love each other in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, so was the case with Pyramus and Thisbe in the play of the Craftsmen. The moon represents love, hope and improves human behavior in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the play The Craftsmen. "Sweet Moon, I thank you for your sunny rays. I thank you, Luna, for now shining so brightly. For with your graceful, golden, glittering gleams, I trust I catch the truest sight of Thisbe." (Mid.5.1.287-290), Shows how the moon gives hope to Pyramus while he is in trouble. This also refers to Hermia and Lysander when they talk about leaving under the moonlight to hope for the freedom to love. "Helena, to you we will reveal our minds. Tomorrow night, when Phoebe sees her silver face in the watery mirror, adorning the starry grass with liquid pearls (a time that lovers' flights still hide), through the doors of Athens we designed to steal” (Mid.1.1.213 -218). (Mid.5.1.321), is stated by Pyramus as he is dying in the play of the Craftsmen, this shows a form of freedom given by the moon The moon symbolizes love at the very beginning of William's A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare when Theseus speaks of his and Hippolyta's wedding. “And then the moon, like a new silver bow stretched in the sky, will contemplate the Night of our solemnities” (Act I, Scene 1, 9-11). which occur in both the play of the Craftsmen and A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, occur through The wall separates the lovers in the play of the Craftsmen as disapproval separates Lysander and Hermia The lion portrays the instigator of trouble and in comparison Robin Goodfellow does the same with Lysander and Hermia. The moon represents everything the play represents: hope, love and improvement. The play of the craftsmen from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare takes up all the main points of the work: romantic confusion, separation, love, hope and encloses them in a short comic comedy.