Overview
Character Name
Peter Quince
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Dramatic Function
Comic Relief
Relationships
Voice
Non-singer
Time & Place
Athens in antiquity, A magical forest
Analysis
Peter Quince is one of the merry band of players known as “The Mechanicals” who spend the play concocting a performance entitled “A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus / And his love Thisbe; very tragical mirth.” (V.i.) He is organized, earnest, and often exasperated by
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