In the final scene of the play, Mistress Page and Ford, this time in league with their husbands and other members of the community, plot one last act of trickery against Falstaff. This time their plot involves a play (specifically a masque) in which Mistress Quickly presides in the forest as the Fairy Queen (aided by Sir Hugh and Pistol as hobgoblins) and the children of Windsor pretend to be fairies.
How is the play within the play related to the play? What themes or ideas does it reiterate, emphasize or elaborate on? How does it advance the plot and ploys of the characters or induce the emotions or resolutions of any character (does it, like the famous play within a play in Hamlet, "catch the conscience" of any character)? What is the meaning of the masque?
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