nick bottom played with oberon in pyramus and thisbe.
nick bottom played with oberon in pyramus and thisbe.
who did nick bottom play in pyramus and thisbe?
oberon
peter quince and his fellow players nick bottom, francis flute, robin starveling, tom snout and snug plan to put on a play for the wedding of the duke and the queen, "the most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of pyramus and thisbe". quince reads the names of characters and bestows them on the players. nick bottom, who is playing the main role of pyramus, is over-enthusiastic and wants to dominate others by suggesting himself for the characters of thisbe, the lion, and pyramus at the same time. quince insists that bottom can only play the role of pyramus. bottom would also rather be a tyrant and recites some lines of ercles. bottom is told by quince that he would do the lion so terribly as to frighten the duchess and ladies enough for the duke and lords to have the players hanged. snug remarks that he needs the lion's part because he is "slow of study". quince assures snug that the role of the lion is "nothing but roaring." quince then ends the meeting telling his actors "at the duke's oak we meet".
a midsummer night's dream
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 of a donkey by the elusive puck. bottom and puck are the only two characters who converse with and progress the three central stories in the whole play. puck is first introduced in the fairies' story and creates the drama of the lovers' story by messing up who loves whom, and places the donkey head on bottom's in his story. similarly, bottom is performing in a play in his story intending it to be presented in the lovers' story, as well as interacting with titania in the fairies' story.
nick bottom