The Secret Power of Epilogues: How One Final Chapter Could Transform Your Book Forever

The Secret Power of Epilogues: How One Final Chapter Could Transform Your Book Forever

The epilogue from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is titled “Nineteen Years Later.”

3. As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare used many epilogues in his plays, including Puck’s final monologue in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Prince’s final speech in Romeo and Juliet, and Rosalind’s final speech in As You Like It, when she says:

I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women—as I perceive by your simpering, none of you hates them—that between you and the women the play may please. If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not. And I am sure as many as have good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.

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