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20: 983: 74:, the two lovers whisper to each other through Snout's fingers (representing a gap in the wall). Snout has eight lines under the name of Tom Snout, and two lines as 233: 463: 1058: 1063: 442: 624: 226: 885: 491: 447: 437: 432: 416: 411: 406: 401: 396: 300: 1024: 833: 291: 1053: 282: 858: 296: 219: 695: 359: 343: 598: 1078: 908: 826: 703: 201: 166: 211: 1068: 897: 819: 100:
and derives from his craft: "Snout" means a nozzle or a spout, a feature of the kettles a tinker often mends.
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Tom Snout was originally set to play Pyramus's father, but the need for a wall was greater, so he discharged
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Snout's name, like that of the other mechanicals, is a
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Index


Riverside Shakespeare Company
William Shakespeare's
A Midsummer Night's Dream
tinker
mechanicals
Athens
Pyramus and Thisbe
play-within-a-play
Pyramus and Thisbe
Nick Bottom
Peter Quince
metonym
Brooks 1979


Blits 2003
Blits, Jan H.
Lexington Books
ISBN
9780739106532
The Arden Shakespeare
Bloomsbury Publishing
doi
10.5040/9781408188095.00000022
ISBN
9781408188095
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