Examples Of Goodfellow In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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In the Shakespearean play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Robin "Puck" Goodfellow is a clever, troublesome elf, who is a loyal servant to Oberon and loves playing pranks on humans which contribute to his light-hearted, manipulative, and cynical behavior. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Robin's light-heartedness is shown when a fairy who works for Titania runs into Robin Goodfellow, after the fairy develops a conversation with Robin, the fairy seems to recognize him, then asks Robin if he is the fairy who plays pranks to scare the maidens in the village, in which Robin responds "… Sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl, In very likeness of a roasted crab; and when she drinks against her lips, I bob ..."(Shakespeare 13). Robin explains to the fairy with