Mechanical (character)
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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, loo
Robin Starveling as Moonshine (second from right), with thorn-bush and dog, in a 1907 student production
Snug playing the Lion in the play-within-the-play Pyramus and Thisbe, within William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Illustration by Louis Rhead for an edition of Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare (1918).
Titania adoring the Ass-headed Bottom. Oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, c. 1790
Nick Bottom (left), Francis Flute (right), and Tom Snout (background) playing Pyramus, Thisbe, and Wall in a 1978 Riverside Shakespeare Company production
Nick Bottom
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Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play. A weaver by trade, he is famously known for getting his head transformed into that
Mechanical (character)
…them as "rude mechanicals" in Act III, Scene 2 of the play, in reference to their occupations as skilled manual laborers. The biggest ham among them, Nick Bottom, becomes the unlikely object of interest for the fairy queen Titania after she is charmed by a love potion and he is turned into a monster with the…
Edwin Landseer, Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1851)
Hans Wassmann as Bottom, by Emil Orlik, 1909