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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 ...
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
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.
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.
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.
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Midsummer Mechanicals is a 2022 play written by Kerry Frampton and Ben Hales. [1] The story, a sequel to William Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night's Dream , follows the titular troupe of actors, The Mechanicals, attempting to put on a new play at the court of Duke Theseus.