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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
Edwin Landseer, Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1851)
Edwin Landseer, Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1851)
Titania adoring Bottom. Oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, c. 1790
Titania adoring Bottom. Oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, c. 1790
Hans Wassmann as Bottom, by Emil Orlik, 1909
Hans Wassmann as Bottom, by Emil Orlik, 1909
Bottom (left) playing Pyramus in a Riverside Shakespeare Company production
Bottom (left) playing Pyramus in a Riverside Shakespeare Company production
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
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 Rh
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).