QUINCE: Well, it shall be so. But there is two hard things: that is, to bring the moonlight into a chamber, for you know Pyramus and Thisbe meet by moonlight.
SNOUT: Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?
BOTTOM: A calendar, a calendar! Look in the almanac. Find out moonshine, find out moonshine.
QUINCE: Yes, it doth shine that night.
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 3, Scene 1. Shakespeare’s theater of the absurd continues, as Quince says that moonlight is required because Pyramus and Thisbe meet by moonlight. Snout worries about how to provide moonlight indoors and wonders if the moon shines on the night of their play. The players consult the almanac to discover that there is indeed moonshine that night.