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He is also worried about being too convincing, in case he frightens the ladies in the audience. Snug asks for a part in the play that has the least lines:. Starveling is a tailor.

His role in the play is to represent the moon. He seems to feel uncomfortable with his part. Luckily, his dog comes on stage with him to keep him company. Starveling announces his part in the play to the wedding guests:. Additional characters continued Peter Quince - actor He is a carpenter by trade, and the director of the play, Pyramus and Thisbe. Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee! Tom Snout, the tinker. You, Pyramus' father: myself, Thisby's father: Snug, the joiner; you, the lion's part: and, I hope, here is a play fitted.

Have you the lion's part written? You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring. Let me play the lion too: I will roar, that I will do any man's heart good to hear me; I will roar, that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again, let him roar again.

An you should do it too terribly, you would fright the duchess and the ladies, that they would shriek; and that were enough to hang us all. I grant you, friends, if that you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us: but I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you an 'twere any nightingale.

You can play no part but Pyramus; for Pyramus is a sweet-faced man; a proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day; a most lovely gentleman-like man: therefore you must needs play Pyramus. Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best to play it in? I will discharge it in either your straw-colour beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your perfect yellow. Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and then you will play bare-faced.

But, masters, here are your parts: and I am to entreat you, request you and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse, for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and our devices known. In the meantime I will draw a bill of properties, such as our play wants. I pray you, fail me not.

We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Take pains; be perfect: adieu. Pat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal. This green plot shall be our stage, this hawthorn-brake our tiring-house; and we will do it in action as we will do it before the duke. Not a whit: I have a device to make all well. Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem to say, we will do no harm with our swords, and that Pyramus is not killed indeed; and, for the more better assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am not Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver: this will put them out of fear.

Well, we will have such a prologue; and it shall be written in eight and six. Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must be seen through the lion's neck: and he himself must speak through, saying thus, or to the same defect,—'Ladies,'—or 'Fair-ladies—I would wish You,'—or 'I would request you,'—or 'I would entreat you,—not to fear, not to tremble: my life for yours.

If you think I come hither as a lion, it were pity of my life: no I am no such thing; I am a man as other men are;' and there indeed let him name his name, and tell them plainly he is Snug the joiner. 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 Thisby meet by moonlight.

A calendar, a calendar! Why, then may you leave a casement of the great chamber window, where we play, open, and the moon may shine in at the casement. Ay; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns and a lanthorn, and say he comes to disfigure, or to present, the person of Moonshine. He acts, writes the scripts, frets about their reception, schedules rehearsals, puts prop lists together, assembles his performers, assigns them their roles, directs their performances, and wrangles and massages the insecurities and egos of his actors.

In addition to young lovers and royal intrigue, each play features an older man with extraordinary powers and his magical servant; nobles lost amidst nature and falling victim to supernatural forces; encounters with creatures who are half-man, half-beast; and major performance pieces.

I suspect, however, that Holofernes is not a self-portrait but rather a caricature of men Shakespeare might have known — or might well have become, had not London and the theater beckoned. I was thinking about the Fool in King Lear. What causes the animosity between Hermia and Helena? Characters Character List. Read an in-depth analysis of Puck.

Oberon The king of the fairies, Oberon is initially at odds with his wife, Titania, because she refuses to relinquish control of a young Indian prince whom he wants for a knight. Titania The beautiful queen of the fairies, Titania resists the attempts of her husband, Oberon, to make a knight of the young Indian prince that she has been given. Lysander A young man of Athens, in love with Hermia. Demetrius A young man of Athens, initially in love with Hermia and ultimately in love with Helena.

Read an in-depth analysis of Hermia. Helena A young woman of Athens, in love with Demetrius.