Essay Archive - A Midsummer Night's Dream: Role Of Puck
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Role Of Puck
The role and character of Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, in A Midsummer
Night's Dream, is not only entertaining but quite useful.
William Shakespeare seems to have created the character of Puck from his
own childhood. In Shakespeare's time it was believed that fairies and little
people did exist. Whenever something went wrong around the farmyard or house or
village, incidents such as buckets of milk ‘accidentally' spilling over, or
tools suddenly disappearing, or doors opening for no reason, it was blamed on ‘
those damn little people!'.
The idea of Puck's character is a lovely one. ....
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