As far as the story, it took a play that I'm already familiar with and put a bit of a nice twist on it. The actors performing a play about the fey that are their audience. I like how the actor's seemed to have acutely portrayed their respective fey counterpart. Like how Queen Titania is still taking an interest in children and in fact tries to lure William Shakespeare's child away during the intermission. I also like that there is this subplot to the story about how Shakespeare and Morpheus have this deal and how it seems that it is actually changing Shakespeare in ways that are hurting his family a little. Hamnet was very easy to relate to as he was one of the few characters that discuss what is going on in their heads, the other two characters I liked were the Hobgoblin Puck, and this large blue fey that goes unnamed. Puck was nice because he could see how the play worked faster than both Auberon and Titania, who seem to both get bogged down by the fact that the events in the play never actually happened to them. I really liked the large blue goblin though because he was very intelligent and seemed to be enjoying the play as well as keeping the peanut gallery in check. It was a nice change in a traditionally type cast role.
I definately need to read more Sandman after this, my expectations are very high but I know that the series is well above them.
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