A Midsummer Night's Dream: Role Of Puck
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Role Of Puck
Darryl Chancey
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. One can't help but be
attracted to him and his innocent, little pranks. He is also known by the name
Robin Goodfellow. The audience can only see this ‘Robin Goodfellow' side of
Puck when he is trying to fix something he disrupted, hence the name Goodfellow
When compared to Oberon, King of the Fairies and Titania, Queen of the
Fairies......
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