... that the "rustics- are in this play simply for comic relief? Are there any ways in which Bottom and his men become something more than the butt of the play's jokes? Did You Know? In 1660, the famous diary-keeper Samuel Pepys saw a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and wrote in his diary that it was "the most insipid ridiculous play ... (more familiarly known as "Puck-), an impish sprite who works for Oberon, King of the Fairies, boasts to another fairy about his skill, and his sheer delight, in playing practical jokes on humans and animals. Puck describes how "I a fat and bean-f...

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