"What is Puck's alternative name in ""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."
"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)."
"a crush. Timothy lives with his mother, Donna (Judy McLane), who is struggling with her son's sexuality and with getting a job, and his father who is not a part of his life. Timothy is cast as Puck in the senior production of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". While reviewing his lines, he discovers the recipe for creating the flower love-in-idleness. Timothy uses the flower to have the homophobic town take a ""walk in his shoes"". The entire town is thrown into chaos as previously heterosexual community members fall in love with their same-sex friends, bosses, and co-workers: whomever they first"
"Nick Bottom Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" who provides comic relief throughout the play. A weaver by trade, he is famously known for getting his head transformed into that of a donkey by the elusive Puck. Bottom and Puck are the only two characters who converse with and progress the three central stories in the whole play. Puck is first introduced in the fairies' story and creates the drama of the lovers' story by messing up who loves whom, and places the donkey head on Bottom's in his story. Similarly, Bottom is performing in"
"when she and Daphne try to, they are attacked by pixies in the woods who are controlled by Puck. Later, their grandmother and Mr. Canis get kidnapped by a Giant that is causing destruction in the town. Sabrina and Daphne, alone in the woods, soon meet (Shakespeare's) Puck (From ""A Midsummer Night's Dream""), and mistake him for Peter Pan, enraging him. He agrees to help them save their grandmother just because she was kind to him and fed him since he was little. They also meet the Magic Mirror from Snow White that is in their home. However, at the"
"to a cave where they read poetry and verse, including their own compositions. As the school year progresses, Keating's lessons and their involvement with the club encourage them to live their lives on their own terms. Knox pursues Chris Noel, a girl who is dating a football player from a public school and whose family is friends with his. Neil discovers his love of acting and gets the role as Puck in a local production of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", despite the fact that his domineering father wants him in the Ivy League (and ultimately medical school). Keating helps Todd"
"glass of milk or other such treats, otherwise he may do the opposite by ""make[ing] the drink[beer] to bear no barm"" and other such fiendish acts. Pucks are also known to be inherently lonely creatures, and often share the goal of acquiring friends. ""Those that Hob-goblin call you, and sweet Puck, / You do their work, and they shall have good luck"" said one of William Shakespeare's fairies. Shakespeare's characterization of ""shrewd and knavish"" Puck in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" may have revived flagging interest in Puck. According to ""Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable"" (1898): Puck (folklore) In English"
"it was originally intended. Before he knows it, he is back in the hospital bed, awake and unsure whether what he experienced was real. Later, Rachel Levin and Gil Warmun, his co-actors from the present time, try to find out who he was 400 years ago."" Synopsis Nathan Field, a talented young actor, arrives at the newly rebuilt Globe theatre in London to play Puck in A ""'Midsummer's Night's dream"". As rehearsals begin, eerie echoes of the past begin to haunt Nat and he falls ill with a mysterious sickness. When he wakes, Nat finds himself in 1599, an actor"
"John Kane (writer) John Kane (born 27 October 1945) is a British actor and writer. An associate actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, he played Puck in Peter Brook's acclaimed production of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" alongside Ben Kingsley, Alan Howard and Frances de la Tour, before turning to comedy script writing. He began writing for Terry Scott's sketch show ""Scott On"", before taking over the reins on a project for Terry Scott and comic actress June Whitfield, which began as ""Happy Ever After"" and later turned into the longer-running series ""Terry and June"", for which he wrote the entire"
"He won many awards for sprinting and hurdles both in and out of school and rugby was a passion for all his life. He was also an actor and dancer having danced in the role of Puck in a production of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" by the Bank of England. In 1939, when working in the Bank of England, he joined the Royal Artillery and was sent to an anti-aircraft battery on the Maginot line. He was evacuated from Dunkirk then went to Yorkshire where he found life dull. In 1944 he volunteered for Special Forces and went into one"
"Ángel Corella, the founder and director of the Corella Ballet. Cornejo enjoys drawing as a hobby. Herman Cornejo Herman Cornejo (born 13 May 1981) is an Argentine-born ballet dancer and a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. He has had leading roles created for him by Alexei Ratmansky and Twyla Tharp; his signature roles include Puck in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", Mercutio in ""Romeo and Juliet"", and the leading male role in Ratmansky's ""Symphony No. 9"". He won a Bessie Award in 2013, and the Prix Benois de la Danse in 2014. In 2004, Joan Acocella called Cornejo ""the"
"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"
"Eventually, the spell is reversed and Lysander marries Hermia. Lysander (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Lysander is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". A handsome young man of Athens, Lysander is in love with Egeus's daughter Hermia. However, Egeus does not approve of Lysander and prefers his daughter to marry a man called Demetrius. Meanwhile, Hermia's friend Helena has fallen in love with Demetrius. When Hermia is forced to choose between dying, never seeing a man again or marrying Demetrius, she and Lysander run away into the forest. After Lysander is put under Puck's spell, being"
"Martin's Theatre and in ""The Ascent of F6"" at The Old Vic. In 1940 he directed a production of ""The Dominant Sex"" for the Dundee Repertory Theatre Company, featuring an early performance by Patrick Cargill. In 1947 Peisley joined the touring company of Donald Wolfit with whom he appeared as Puck in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" on Broadway and in Canada. ""Billboard"" said of Peisley's performance, ""Frederick Peisley as Puck is adequate only, much of the wit of Shakespeare's lines being lost in the excessive bounce and speed Peisley puts into the chore."" The year 1949 saw Peisley portraying ""a"
"Aidan McArdle Aidan McArdle (born 1970) is an Irish actor. McArdle was born in Dublin. He studied for an Arts degree at University College Dublin before going on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England. His work with the Royal Shakespeare Company includes the title role in ""Richard III"" and the role of Puck in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". He also appeared in the title role of a stage adaptation of John Irving's ""A Prayer for Owen Meany"" by Simon Bent at London's Royal National Theatre in 2002, along with the role of Joseph Surface"
"his role of Puck in William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" he received an award of the Shakespeare Festival in Warsaw. Finally in 1949 he moved to Warsaw, where he became a member of Teatr Współczesny, one of the best Polish stages at the time, led by renowned director Erwin Axer. About that time he also debuted as a playwright, with two of his plays staged in Kielce and Kraków. He was also engaged in the National Theatre in the role of Kordian in Słowacki's play of the same title, which gained him much popularity and fame. He was also"
"of editorials commented on the issues of the day, and the last few pages were devoted to advertisements. ""Puckish"" means ""childishly mischievous"". This led Shakespeare's Puck character (from ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"") to be recast as a charming near-naked boy and used as the title of the magazine. The magazine consisted of 16 pages measuring 10 inches by 13.5 inches with front and back covers in color and a color double-page centerfold. The cover always quoted Puck saying, ""What fools these mortals be!"" The jaunty symbol of Puck is conceived as a putto in a top hat who admires himself"
"with the English Touring Theatre in 2011, playing Valere in ""Tartuffe"". In 2015, he played Peter Pan on the London stage, and in 2016 he was cast as Puck in the BBC's new production of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". Hiran Abeysekera Hiran Abeysekera (born c.1986) is a Sri Lankan actor, best known for his appearances in ""Lion in the Tent"" (2014) and ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (2016). Hiran was educated at Nalanda College Colombo and was highly involved with English drama while at school. Having obtained a diploma from the 'Lanka Children's and Youth Theatre Foundation (LCYTF), Abeysekera played the"
"1994 in Wembley, London. Her mother is a hospital clinical technician of Jamaican descent, and her father is a delivery driver. She began acting in school plays at the age of six. When her secondary school did not offer theatre as an option until year 10, she convinced the drama teacher to set up a theatre club for younger students. At the Shakespeare Schools Festival, she played Puck in ""A Midsummer Night’s Dream"" and the title role in ""Macbeth"". She attended St Dominic's Sixth Form College in Harrow, London. In 2012, at the age of 17, she was one of"
"outdoor production starring Eric Hoffmann as Puck, with Karen Hurley as Titania and Eric Conger as Oberon, directed by company founder Gloria Skurski. There have been several variations since then, including some set in the 1980s. The Maryland Shakespeare Players at University of Maryland staged a queer production in 2015 where the lovers were same-sex couples and the mechanicals were drag queens. The University of Michigan's Nichols Arboretum's programme Shakespeare in the Arb has presented a play every summer since 2001. Shakespeare in the Arb has produced ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" three times. These performances take place in a natural"
"Herman Cornejo Herman Cornejo (born 13 May 1981) is an Argentine-born ballet dancer and a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. He has had leading roles created for him by Alexei Ratmansky and Twyla Tharp; his signature roles include Puck in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", Mercutio in ""Romeo and Juliet"", and the leading male role in Ratmansky's ""Symphony No. 9"". He won a Bessie Award in 2013, and the Prix Benois de la Danse in 2014. In 2004, Joan Acocella called Cornejo ""the most technically accomplished male ballet dancer in the United States."" He was described by critic Claudia"
"Antonie Strassmann Antonie Strassmann (1901–1952) was a German stage actress and aviator. She emigrated to the United States and worked as an aviation consultant prior to World War II. Strassmann was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1901 to Paul and Hedwig Strassmann, Christians of Jewish descent. At the age of 16 she decided to become an actress, although her parents did not approve, stating that acting was an ""undignified"" career. In the 1920s she performed on stage both in Germany and overseas, including the role of Puck in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", and in productions of ""Die Fledermaus"" and Moreto's"
"if it were meant to be a comedy, and everyone retires to bed. Afterwards, Oberon, Titania, Puck, and other fairies enter, and bless the house and its occupants with good fortune. After all the other characters leave, Puck ""restores amends"" and suggests that what the audience experienced might just be a dream. It is unknown exactly when ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" was written or first performed, but on the basis of topical references and an allusion to Edmund Spenser's ""Epithalamion"", it is usually dated 1595 or early 1596. Some have theorised that the play might have been written for an"
"Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!"". In the 2005/06 pantomime season, he appeared in ""Beauty and the Beast"" at the Theatre Royal, Windsor. Sleep completed a tour of ""Magic of the Musicals"" with Marti Webb and Robert Meadmore, as well as appearing as a judge on BBC One's ""Strictly Dance Fever"". Sleep has worked with the British Shakespeare Company on three occasions, playing Puck in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" twice (national tour in 2006) as well as Feste in ""Twelfth Night"". Sleep runs workshops that children of over the age of six can attend. He has appeared as Uncle Willy"
"until 1868, when she was granted the role of little Arthur Leigh in ""Rosedale"" and performed at the Boston Museum. Throughout the same season, she played as Puck in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" in a long run at the Continental Theatre, along with getting her education at the Dudley School, where, according to her teachers, she did very well. In 1869 she moved with her parents to Chicago, Illinois and completed her education. In April 1875, she returned once again to the stage, though this time under the management of Frank E. Aiken, one of the leading stage managers of"
"acting career. She applied to the London Academy of Music and Drama and was awarded a six-month scholarship. Bryan gained her first professional acting role on 16 December 1937 as the character of Puck in a scene from William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" at the Royal performance in aid of King George's Actors Pension Fund. She performed at Regent's Park, London in 1938, repeating the role of Puck and also playing Ariel in ""The Tempest"". West End roles soon followed in ""April Clouds"" and ""Glorious Morning"" she succeeded Jessica Tandy. Bryan appeared in ""The Springtime of Others"", ""Q"", and"
"in Ibsen's ""Rosmersholm"" and ""Hedda Gabler"" in Cambridge and then in London, as well as Titania, this time, in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" in Regent's Park with Atkins. She created the role of Catherine on Broadway in ""Promise"" by H. M. Harwood, which opened on 30 December 1936. In 1937, she appeared in J.B. Priestley's ""Time and the Conways"" at the Duchess Theatre, and that summer she took the role of Puck in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" in Regent's Park, again directed by Atkins. ""The Times"" called her interpretation ""a darkly purposeful goblin of mischief lending to Puck's innate attractiveness"
"""Puck Fountain"" (1930–32), for the west garden of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Inscribed below her ""Figure of Puck"" is the elf's famous line from ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"": ""What fooles these mortals be."" The marble sculpture, damaged by acid rain and vandalism, was removed in 2001, restored, and placed inside the library. It was used to cast an aluminum replica that was placed atop the fountain in 2002. She exhibited three works as part of the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She created bas relief murals for two U.S. post offices under the Works Progress"
"Lilly Englert Lilly Englert (born August 23, 1989) is an English actress best known for ""The Wilde Wedding, A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and ""Ask for Jane"". Englert was born in London, England and raised in Parma, Italy along with four younger siblings. In 2010, she relocated to New York City to train at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. In 2013, Englert made her Off-Broadway debut in Julie Taymor's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" at Theatre for a New Audience. She received rave reviews for her performance as Hermia opposite Kathryn Hunter's Puck, with ""The New York Times""' Ben Brantley praising"
"Lilly Englert Lilly Englert (born August 23, 1989) is an English actress best known for ""The Wilde Wedding, A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and ""Ask for Jane"". Englert was born in London, England and raised in Parma, Italy along with four younger siblings. In 2010, she relocated to New York City to train at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. In 2013, Englert made her Off-Broadway debut in Julie Taymor's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" at Theatre for a New Audience. She received rave reviews for her performance as Hermia opposite Kathryn Hunter's Puck, with ""The New York Times""' Ben Brantley praising"
"Oxford, from 1920 to 1924. He made little mark until his final year, when he played Puck in the school's production of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream""; his performance was a tour de force that won him popularity among his fellow pupils. In January 1924, his brother left England to work in India as a rubber planter. Olivier missed him greatly and asked his father how soon he could follow. He recalled in his memoirs that his father replied, ""Don't be such a fool, you're not going to India, you're going on the stage."" In 1924 Gerard Olivier, a habitually frugal"
"my eyes, for fear"", No. XV in his 1896 collection ""A Shropshire Lad"". It refers to the Greek legend of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection:""<poem> The jonquil is a species of narcissus, ""Narcissus jonquilla"". In the Middle Ages, it was a widespread custom to appoint a boy bishop, for example from among cathedral choristers, to parody the actual bishop on some particular church feast day. Puck is a mischievous supernatural creature in Celtic folklore. He is perhaps best known from the character Puck in Shakespeare's play ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". Three Pastels Three Pastels is a"
"throne. When Henry shares Robert Devereux's plan with Edward, he warns him that Robert Devereux's actions could lead to civil war if not managed carefully. Ben is to act as author of Edward's play, ""Henry V"". At curtain call however, William Shakespeare, a ""drunken oaf"", steps forward to be recognized as the author of the play. Elizabeth accepts a gift that evokes a memory from forty years before, when the boy, Edward, performed in his own play, ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" as Puck. The teenage Edward must has secretly written his plays, when his education is entrusted to the puritanical"