Francis Flute
Francis Flute is a character in
In the play Flute (Thisbe) speaks through the wall (played by Tom Snout) to Pyramus (Nick Bottom).[1]
Flute is a young, excited actor who is disappointed when he finds he is meant to play a woman (Thisbe) in their interlude before the duke and the duchess.[2] He generally is portrayed using a falsetto voice.[citation needed] He is an unsure actor who asks many questions.[citation needed]
Flute is often portrayed as the lowest in status of the Mechanicals, but his performance at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta arguably wins them favour at the court of the duke and duchess.[citation needed]
Flute's name, like that of the other mechanicals, is
In Jean-Louis and Jules Supervielle's French adaptation, Le Songe d'une nuit d'été (1959), Flute is renamed to Tubulure, where Georges Neveux's 1945 adaptation used the English names.[4]
On the Elizabethan stage, the role of Flute and the other Mechanicals was intended to be doubled with Titania's four fairy escorts: Moth (also spelled Mote), Mustardseed, Cobweb, and Peaseblossom.[5]
References
- ^ a b c Brooks 1979.
- ^ Blits 2003, p. 46.
- ^ Blits 2003, p. 43.
- ^ White 1960, p. 344.
- ^ Weiner 1971, p. 339.
Sources
- ISBN 9780739106532.
- Brooks, Harold, ed. (1979). A Midsummer Night's Dream. ISBN 9781408188095.
- Weiner, Andrew D. (1971). ""Multiformitie Uniforme": A Midsummer Night's Dream". JSTOR 2872222.
- White, Kenneth S. (1960). "Two French Versions of A Midsummer Night's Dream". JSTOR 383649.
See also
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