Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream) The audience is introduced to Puck in Act 2 Scene 1 when one of Titania's fairies encounters Puck: <poem> FAIRY Either I mistake your shape and making quite, Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he That frights the maidens of the villagery; Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern And bootless make the breathless housewife churn; And sometime make the drink to bear no barm; Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm? Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck, You do their work, and they shall have good luck: Are
A Midsummer Night's Dream Lysander, Demetrius and Helenus (a male Helena), the play was carried to a more gender fluid era. The last performance was broadcast live all around the world through internet. W. Stanley Moss adopted the quotation, "Ill met by moonlight, (proud Titania)", from A Midsummer Night's Dream as the title of his best-selling book "Ill Met by Moonlight" published in 1950 describing the Kidnap of General Kreipe. The book was adapted into a film of the same name, directed and produced by Michael Powell and released in 1957. It featured Dirk Bogarde as Patrick Leigh Fermor and David Oxley as Moss.