You are here

"grow to a point"
Wordplay
Act 1,
Scene 2
Lines 9-10

An explanation of the wordplay in the phrase “grow to a point” in Act 1, Scene 2 of myShakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Bottom

then read the names of the actors, and so grow to a
point.

A quince is a wooden wedge used by carpenters in the construction of buildings; it comes to a point.