Bookend Brothers

Check out these two passages:

Act I, Scene I

Camillo:  

Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia.

They were trained together in their childhoods; and 

there rooted betwixt them then such an affection, 

which cannot choose but branch now. Since their 

more mature dignities and royal necessities made 

separation of their society, their encounters,

though not personal, have been royally attorneyed

with interchange of gifts, letters, loving 

embassies; that they have seemed to be together,

though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and

embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed

winds. The heavens continue their loves

Archidamus:

I think there is not in the world either malice or
matter to alter it.

... and ...

Act V, Scene II

Third Gentleman: Did you see
the meeting of the two kings? 

Second Gentleman: No. 

Third Gentleman: Then have you lost a sight, which was to be seen, 

cannot be spoken of. There might you have beheld one 

joy crown another, so and in such manner that it 

seemed sorrow wept to take leave of them, for their 

joy waded in tears. There was casting up of eyes,

holding up of hands, with countenances of such 

distraction that they were to be known by garment, 

not by favour. Our king, being ready to leap out of 

himself for joy of his found daughter, as if that 

joy were now become a loss, cries 'O, thy mother,

thy mother!' then asks Bohemia forgiveness; then 

embraces his son-in-law; then again worries he his 

daughter with clipping her; now he thanks the old 

shepherd, which stands by like a weather-bitten 

conduit of many kings' reigns. I never heard of such

another encounter, which lames report to follow it 

and undoes description to do it."

So, the play begins and ends the same way, with a conversation between two less-than-secondary characters describing the brotherly love Leontes and Polixenes have for each other.

For good measure, here's me and my brother, who is 19 months younger than me (with two of our younger sisters):

By the way, why do you think it is that Act V, Scene II is a conversation between three characters, who aren't even named, about the climax of the story? Why didn't Shakespeare write out that scene? Did he just get lazy?

I have one theory. Maybe Shakespeare intended to describe the scene rather than display it, tell instead of show. He does use some beautiful language in describing how happy everyone is now. Maybe he wanted to put together a few well-crafted words, and leave the rest to imagination.