mechanical

Set of six characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Entitygroup of fictional charactersQ6804478

Instance of: group of fictional characters
Subclass of: character in A Midsummer Night's Dream

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The mechanicals are six characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream who perform the play-within-a-play Pyramus and Thisbe. They are a group of amateur and mostly incompetent actors from around Athens, looking to make names for themselves by having their production chosen among several acts as the courtly entertainment for the royal wedding party of Theseus and Hippolyta. The servant-spirit Puck describes them as "rude mechanicals" in Act III, Scene 2 of the play, in reference to their occupations as skilled manual laborers.

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Members / parts: Robin Starveling
Tom Snout
Peter Quince
Snug
Nick Bottom
Francis Flute
Has part(s) of the class: fictional human occupation: actor · quantity: 6

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