Rosalind- Act #5

This play concludes in a large wedding and a happy ending for all the couples. The themes are addressed for the final time as country vs. city life is debated. At this point the men seem to be aware of Rosalind's games and all of loves confusion is sorted out through the universal solution of marriage. Rosalind then gives the grand epilogue which she explains the is nontraditional in the sense a women performs it. In the Epilogue she addresses the audience frequently and asks their opinions in rhetorical form. "It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue, but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. Yet to good wine they do use good bushes, and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What a case am I in, then, that am neither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play. " (5.6.196-204) The epilogue seems appropriate for Rosalind's character because it ties in the unexplained aspects of the play.