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
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film) A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1935 American romance fantasy film of William Shakespeare's play, directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, and starring James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Muir, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell, Ross Alexander, Anita Louise, Victor Jory and Ian Hunter. Produced by Henry Blanke and Hal B. Wallis for Warner Brothers, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr. from Reinhardt's Hollywood Bowl production of the previous year, the film is about the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the