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The mechanicals are six characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream who perform the play-within-a-play Pyramus and Thisbe. They are a group of amateur and mostly incompetent actors from around Athens , looking to make names for themselves by having their production chosen among several acts as the courtly entertainment for the royal wedding party ...
Peter Quince is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.He is one of the six mechanicals of Athens who perform the play which Quince himself authored, "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe" for the Duke Theseus and his wife Hippolyta at their wedding.
The Mechanicals: Peter Quince – a carpenter, their director and speaks the prologue; Nick Bottom – a weaver, plays 'Pyramus' Francis Flute – a bellows-mender, plays 'Thisbe' Snug – a joiner, plays 'Lion' Tom Snout – a tinker, plays 'Wall' Robin Starveling – a tailor, plays 'Moonshine' The Fairies: Oberon – King of the Fairies
Snug is the only Mechanical to whom the playwright did not assign a first name. [ 4 ] In Jean-Louis and Jules Supervielle's French adaptation, Le Songe d'une nuit d'été (1959), Snug is renamed Asène to As , where Georges Neveux's 1945 adaptation used the English names.
Robin Starveling as Moonshine (second from right), with thorn-bush and dog, in a 1907 student production. Robin Starveling is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1596), one of the Rude Mechanicals of Athens who plays the part of Moonshine in their performance of Pyramus and Thisbe.
The lovers are married in a joint ceremony with Theseus and Hippolyta, and together watch the play put on by the Mechanicals in their honour. While not the only protagonist of A Midsummer Night's Dream , Helena is one of its most talkative characters. [ 2 ]
Tom Snout (background) playing Wall in a Riverside Shakespeare Company production. Tom Snout is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. [1] He is a tinker, and one of the "mechanicals" of Athens, amateur players in Pyramus and Thisbe, a play within the play.
The Peter Quince of the title is the character of one of the "mechanicals" in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Stevens' poem titles are not necessarily a reliable indicator of the meaning of his poems, but Milton Bates suggests that it serves as ironic stage direction, the image of "Shakespear's rude mechanical pressing the delicate ...