11 Facts About Nick Bottom

1.

Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play.

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Similarly, Nick Bottom is performing in a play in his story intending it to be presented in the lovers' story, as well as interacting with Titania in the fairie's story.

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3.

Nick Bottom decides to have some fun with them, carrying out part of Oberon's orders in the process, and when Bottom exits the stage, he transforms his head into a donkey's.

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4.

Nick Bottom has been enchanted by a love potion, which will cause her to fall in love with the first living thing that she sees when she wakes, made from the juice of a rare flower, once hit by Cupid's arrow, that her husband, Oberon, King of the Fairies, spread on her eyes in an act of jealous rage.

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5.

Nick Bottom is happy that he is being treated like royalty and Titania loves him so much she puts flowers in his hair.

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6.

Nick Bottom's first thought is that he has fallen asleep in the woods during rehearsal and has missed his cue.

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7.

Nick Bottom is amazed by the events of this dream, and soon begins to wonder if it was in fact a dream at all.

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8.

Nick Bottom quickly decides that he will "get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream", and that "it shall be called 'Bottom's Dream, ' because it hath no Bottom".

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9.

Just as Christ's preaching is regarded as "foolishness", Nick Bottom's audience perceives his acting as completely without value, except for the humor they can find in the actors' hopelessly flawed rendering of their subject matter.

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10.

Nick Bottom states that it is a proverbial saying and "was born in the days of archery".

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11.

At the Czech Theatre of Fidlovacce, Nick Bottom was performed in an alternation between Ctirad Gotz and Jakub Slach.

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