A Midsummer Night's Dream Research Paper
Marissa Coe
EN 360 Shakespeare I
Major Paper 1
03/25/14
In one of Shakespeare’s famous plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the mischievous fairy Puck plays a role like no other. Although he has minor parts in this playwright, his personality and foolish traits make him admirable to readers. A perfect actor to cast the role of Puck I believe would be Joe Pesci, an American actor and comedian of the 20th century. Pesci shares his foolish and witless personality with the character of Puck and fits his role in many ways. The casting of Joe Pesci as Puck can be justified by their unique similarities. In a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck is the fairy that plays all tricks on the humans. For instance, he transforms Bottom’s, the comical fool in the play, head into a donkey (“ass”) and pours the love potion into the …show more content…
In comparison to Joe Pesci, they both share the quality of getting enjoyment from messing with other people and not respecting the moral society. In one of his more popular movies, My Cousin Vinny, a 1992 comedy film, he plays the comical lawyer, Vinny who defends his cousins in a murder case. Vinny manages to fool the trial judge about being experienced enough to take the case in a game of cat-and-mouse that progresses throughout the film. His ignorance of basic court procedures and dress code as well as his sarcastic and disrespectful attitude causes the judge to put him in contempt. When the judge asks him why he didn’t dress appropriately for court, Pesci responds, “You were serious about that, I’m going to wear whatever the hell I want HA! HA!” (“My Cousin Vinny”). Pesci’s attitude in this movie and many of his others correlates with the personality of Puck in Shakespeare’s play, which also supports the decision of having Pesci cast as his
EN 360 Shakespeare I
Major Paper 1
03/25/14
In one of Shakespeare’s famous plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the mischievous fairy Puck plays a role like no other. Although he has minor parts in this playwright, his personality and foolish traits make him admirable to readers. A perfect actor to cast the role of Puck I believe would be Joe Pesci, an American actor and comedian of the 20th century. Pesci shares his foolish and witless personality with the character of Puck and fits his role in many ways. The casting of Joe Pesci as Puck can be justified by their unique similarities. In a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck is the fairy that plays all tricks on the humans. For instance, he transforms Bottom’s, the comical fool in the play, head into a donkey (“ass”) and pours the love potion into the …show more content…
In comparison to Joe Pesci, they both share the quality of getting enjoyment from messing with other people and not respecting the moral society. In one of his more popular movies, My Cousin Vinny, a 1992 comedy film, he plays the comical lawyer, Vinny who defends his cousins in a murder case. Vinny manages to fool the trial judge about being experienced enough to take the case in a game of cat-and-mouse that progresses throughout the film. His ignorance of basic court procedures and dress code as well as his sarcastic and disrespectful attitude causes the judge to put him in contempt. When the judge asks him why he didn’t dress appropriately for court, Pesci responds, “You were serious about that, I’m going to wear whatever the hell I want HA! HA!” (“My Cousin Vinny”). Pesci’s attitude in this movie and many of his others correlates with the personality of Puck in Shakespeare’s play, which also supports the decision of having Pesci cast as his