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Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that Puck (Shakespeare) be merged into this article or section. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
He is sent by Oberon(fairy king) to fetch the flower "love-in-idleness" and is told to apply its juice to the eye lids of the fairy queen Titana. He erroneously administers the charm to the sleeping Lysander. Puck provides Nick Bottom with a donkey's head so that Titania (Fairy queen) will fall in love with a beast and forget her attachment to the Indian so that Oberon can take the Indian boy. Later, Puck is ordered by Oberon to produce a dark fog, and to lead the lovers astray within it by imitating their voices, and then to apply more of the flower to Lysander's eyes which reverses the effect. At the end of the play he makes a speech explaining his actions that serves to trivialize the play itself if it has offended the audience "If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended: That you have but slumbered here, While these visions did appear." This line connects the audience with the play itself. he is also known as robin goodfellow Lysander is one of the iconic lovers in William Shakespeares play: A Midsummer Nights Dream. ... Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play, and is famously known for getting his head transformed into that of a donkey by the elusive Puck within the play. ...
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