Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Vince Cardinale as Puck from the Carmel Shakespeare Festival production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, September 2000
Puck (1789) by Joshua Reynolds
Puck (c. 1810–1820), Henry Fuseli's depiction of the character
Puck by William Dyce, (1825) Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums
Puck (folklore)
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In English folklore, The Puck, also known as Goodfellows, are demons or fairies which can be domestic sprites or nature sprites.
Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
…Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Based on the Puck of English mythology and the púca of Celtic mythology, Puck is a mischievous fairy, sprite, or jester. He is the first of the main fairy characters to…
Illustration from the title page of Robin Goodfellow: His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests (1629)
Joseph Noel Paton, Puck and Fairies, detail from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The Mad Pranks of Robin Goodfellow, by John Franklin, engraving by Edward Dalziel, 1845