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Starveling announces his part in the play to the wedding guests:. Additional characters continued Peter Quince - actor He is a carpenter by trade, and the director of the play, Pyramus and Thisbe.

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Rees, Emma L. You, Pyramus's father; myself, Thisbe's father. Snug the joiner, you the lion's part. And I hope here is a. Have you the lion's part written? Pray you, if it be,. You may do it extempore , for it is nothing but. Let me play the lion too. I will roar that I will do. I will roar that I will. An you should do it too terribly you would fright. That would hang us, every mother's son. I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies.

I will roar you. You can play no part but Pyramus, for Pyramus is. Therefore you must needs play Pyramus. Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best. Why, what you will. I will discharge it in either your straw-color. Some of your French crowns have no hair at all,. Quince, a carpenter, tries to conduct the meeting, but the talkative weaver Nick Bottom continually interrupts him with advice and direction.

In the play, a lion surprises Thisbe one night and tatters her mantle before she escapes. When Pyramus finds the shredded garment, he assumes that the lion has killed Thisbe; stricken with grief, he commits suicide. As Quince doles out the parts, Bottom often interrupts, announcing that he should be the one to play the assigned part. Quince eventually convinces him that Pyramus is the part for him, by virtue of the fact that Pyramus is supposed to be very handsome.