Puck in popular culture appearance is in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". As Robin Goodfellow, Puck appears in a roughly contemporaneous Elizabethan play, "Grim the Collier of Croydon" (1600). It is unknown how Shakespeare's Puck appeared on the stage; but the figure in "Grim" was costumed "in a suit of leather close to his body; his face and hands coloured russet-coloured, with a flail." Puck is the story-framer in "Puck of Pook's Hill" (1906) and "Rewards and Fairies" (1910) short story cycles by Rudyard Kipling. In Susanna Clarke's short story "The Ladies of Grace Adieu," Robin Goodfellow appears as a mischievous yet caring
Puck (opera) May 1956. There was much media coverage of the premiere and a generally positive welcome for the work. The story is loosely based on the play by Shakespeare and mixes traditional opéra comique elements with dance (the title role) and actors. Grove talks of the opera’s "mobile declamation oscillating between speech and song". Puck (opera) Puck is an opéra-féerique in three acts with music by Marcel Delannoy, premiered in 1949. The French libretto was adapted by André Boll from Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night's Dream". It was first performed at the Opéra Municipal in Strasbourg on 29 January 1949 directed by