Shakespeare's characterization of " shrewd and knavish " Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream may have revived flagging interest in Puck.

Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, whose nature has been so clearly fixed in the English-speaking imagination that, as Katherine Briggs has remarked, " it no longer seems natural to talk as Robert Burton does in the Anatomie of Melancholy of a puck instead of ' Puck '".

Vince Cardinale as Puck from the Carmel Shakespeare Festival production of " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", Sept., 2000

Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream that was based on the ancient figure in English mythology, also called Puck.

The moon was later named after the Puck who appears in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a little sprite who travels around the globe at night with the fairies.

The phenomena were named after the mischievous sprite ( air spirit ) Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

In historiography, what is now called speculative fiction has previously been termed " historical invention ", " historical fiction ", and similar names and is extensively noted in literary criticism of the works of William Shakespeare as when he co-locates Athenian Duke Theseus and Amazonian Queen Hippolyta, English fairy Puck, and Roman god Cupid across time and space in the Fairyland of its Merovingian Germanic sovereign Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream ; in mythography it has been termed " mythopoesis " or mythopoeia, " fictional speculation ", the creative design and generation of lore, regarding such works as J. R. R.

She also played the roles of Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1856 ), Prince Arthur in King John ( 1858 ) and Fleance in Macbeth ( 1859 ), continuing at the Princess's Theatre until the Keans ' retirement in 1859.

* 1970 A Midsummer Night's Dream with John Kane ( Puck ), Frances de la Tour ( Helena ), Ben Kingsley ( Demetrius ) and Patrick Stewart ( Snout ): see 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream

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 most commonly known hobgoblin is the character Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Among other things the series asserts that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was a secret illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I ; that Sir Francis Walsingham, the Queen's spymaster, did not die in 1590 as history records but lived in secret for another five years ; that playwrights Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were all secret agents of the Queen and underwent dangerous missions in her service, in addition to their theatrical activities ; that the plays of all three had profound secret political and magical meanings ; that Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene was not a fictional work but was based on a true Kingdom of Faerie, whose Queen had a secret pact of mutual help with the English Queen Elizabeth ; that Christopher Marlowe was not assassinated in 1593 as history records but was taken into Faerie where he became the lover of the witch Morgan le Fay ; and that Shakespeare had also visited Faerie and personally met with Puck and other supposedly legendary characters depicted in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

His opera roles include major roles in Die Fledermaus ( as " Gabriel Eisenstein "), The Magic Flute ( as " Papageno "), A Midsummer Night's Dream ( as " Puck ") and The Tales of Hoffman.

For example, William Blake painted Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing, depicting a scene from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, around 1785, and Daniel Maclise painted Faun and the Fairies around 1834.

In Magic Street by Orson Scott Card, the character of Puck suggests that Queen Mab and Titania, of A Midsummer Night's Dream, are in fact, the same individual, but Shakespeare did not realize it.

** A Midsummer Night's Dream: Titania, Oberon, Puck

The project code name was " Midsummer ", an arbitrary reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream ; and the two main chips were named Oberon and Puck, references to characters in that play.

After an introduction in Magoo's backstage dressing room, Magoo was depicted in such roles as The Count of Monte Cristo, Merlin in an upbeat retelling of the story of King Arthur, Friar Tuck in Robin Hood, and Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Several of Shakespeare's plays begin or end with references to the actors and the play itself, most famously A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which Puck concludes with a speech which includes the lines:

* George Romney ( 1734 – 1802 ) Titania, Puck and the Changeling, from Shakespeare's ' A Midsummer Night's Dream ' 1793

Goethe also used Puck in the first half of Faust, in a scene entitled " A Walpurgis Night Dream ", where he played off of the spirit Ariel from The Tempest.

The building sports two gilded statues by sculptor Henry Baerer of Shakespeare's character Puck, from A Midsummer's Night Dream, one on the northeast corner at Houston and Mulberry, and one over the main entrance on Lafayette.

* Press release, NYU Inks Deal for " Dream Space " in Puck Building

* Puck ( mythology ), a folklore character

* Puck ( comics ), the codename of two Marvel characters

* Puck ( magazine ), an 1871-1918 humor publication

* Puck ( literary magazine ), a 1990s publication

* Theodore Puck ( 1916 – 2005 ), American geneticist

* Wolfgang Puck ( born 1949 ), Austrian celebrity chef and restaurateur

In Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill ( 1906 ), Puck, the last of the People of the Hills and " the oldest thing in England ", charms the children Dan and Una with a collection of tales and visitors out of England's past.

" The name the " Old Woman " ( Latin vetula ) for such " corn dolls " was in use among the Germanic pagans of Flanders in the 7th century, where Saint Eligius discouraged them from their old practices: " not make vetulas, ( little figures of the Old Woman ), little deer or iotticos or set tables the house-elf, compare Puck ( mythology ) | Puck at night or exchange New Year gifts or supply superfluous drinks Yule custom.

Other less popular shapes are: Humphrey, Ball, Slimline, Russell Style ( Bulge Face ), Puck, Satellite, Coaster and Riveted Disk.

When she learned that she was named for the wine, Château Margaux, which her parents, Puck and Jack Hemingway ( eldest son of Ernest ), were drinking the night she was conceived, she changed the original spelling from " Margot " to " Margaux " to match.

Previously in the Gdańsk Voivodeship ( 1975 – 1998 ), Puck has been the capital of Puck County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999.

This was a pagan custom deplored by Saint Eligius ( died 659 or 660 ), who warned the Flemings and Dutchmen, "( Do not ) make vetulas, figures of the Old Woman, little deer or iotticos or set tables the house-elf, compare Puck ( mythology ) | Puck at night or exchange New Year gifts or supply superfluous drinks Yule custom.

It consists of Vindicator ( who had renamed himself Guardian in the comics ), Puck, Snowbird, Shaman, Northstar, Aurora, Sasquatch, and Dr. Heather Hudson.

Situated in the Puck County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, previously in Gdańsk Voivodeship ( 1975 – 1998 ), Władysławowo is a sea port and a popular seaside holiday destination.

* Puck County ( Pùcczi kréz ): Town of Puck ( Pùck ) with Gmina Puck, towns of Hel ( Hél ), Jastarnia ( Jastarniô ) and Władysławowo ( Wiôlgô Wies ), Gmina Kosakowo ( Kòsôkòwò ), Gmina Krokowa ( Krokòwa )

In the play, Shakespeare introduces Puck as the " shrewd and knavish sprite " and " that merry wanderer of the night " in some scenes it would seem that he is longing for freedom and he is also a jester to Oberon, the fairy king.

In Puck, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, the once-dangerous figure is rendered harmless

The Arden Shakespeare decides to call him " Puck ", and amends all stage directions ( but not actual dialogue ) that call him " Robin " or " Robin Goodfellow ".

* Puck by Brenda Putnam, marble, 1932, at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D. C.

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Jenkins first formed Puck and Natty ( the name originating from the Shakespeare characters ), a ' funky rap masta ' group, with Detroit rapper Herman Chunn in 1992, after a failed experiment with his band Splash.

In 2002, Rebecca toured with the British Shakespeare Company in an open-air production of Romeo and Juliet, playing Juliet opposite Tama Matheson as Romeo, and in the same year played Peaseblossom in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Wayne Sleep as Puck, also an open-air production.

Waterhouse has appeared in a wide range of theatre productions in the UK, and has appeared in the Shakespeare productions A Midsummer Night's Dream ( as Puck ), Twelfth Night ( as Fabian ), Macbeth ( as Fleance ) and Hamlet ( as the title role ).

Work with the Royal Shakespeare Company includes the title role in Richard III and the role of Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream.