Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream", based on the ancient figure of Puck found in English mythology. Puck is a clever, mischievous fairy, sprite, or jester. He is the first of the main fairy characters to appear, and creates the drama of the human lovers' story by splitting up a young couple lost in an enchanted forest. As a "shrewd and knavish sprite", he is an impish trickster and delights in pranks and practical jokes, like replacing Bottom's head with that of an ass.
Puck (moon) was given the temporary designation S/1985 U 1. The moon was later named after the character Puck who appears in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", a little sprite who travels around the globe at night with the fairies. In Celtic mythology and English folklore, a "Puck" is a mischievous sprite, imagined as an evil demon by Christians. It is also designated Uranus XV. Puck is the largest small inner moon of Uranus, which orbits inside the orbit of Miranda. It is intermediate in size between Portia (the second-largest inner moon) and Miranda (the smallest of the five large classical moons).