Puck in popular culture He helps them solve most of their cases, and lives with them in their house. Puck plays a central role in Mark Chadbourn's fantasy trilogy, Kingdom of the Serpent, comprising the novels "Jack of Ravens", "The Burning Man", and "Destroyer of Worlds". Puck manipulates the heroes in an epic battle between good and evil over two thousand years of human history. The children's theater play "Robin Goodfellow" by Aurand Harris is a retelling of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" from Puck's point of view. In Kentaro Miura's dark fantasy manga Berserk, Puck is one of the main character's earliest companions. He
A Midsummer Night's Dream of patriarchal control. In his book "Power on Display", Leonard Tennenhouse says the problem in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is the problem of "authority gone archaic". The Athenian law requiring a daughter to die if she does not do her father's will is outdated. Tennenhouse contrasts the patriarchal rule of Theseus in Athens with that of Oberon in the carnivalistic Faerie world. The disorder in the land of the fairies completely opposes the world of Athens. He states that during times of carnival and festival, male power is broken down. For example, what happens to the four lovers in the