Act I, scene ii

Act I, scene ii

Blue Collar

A blue-collar worker is a working class person who performs manual labor. 

All of the "Rude Mechanicals" are blue collar laborers who want to perform a play for the Duke and Duchess at their wedding.

Quince

Carpenter

Bottom

Weaver

Snug

Joiner

Flute

Bellows mender

Starveling

Tailor

Snout

Tinker

Play within a Play

• Pyramus and Thisby

• "lamentable comedy"

• Shakespeare's parody of Romeo and Juliet

• Based on a real play that probably inspired Shakespeare to write Romeo and Juliet

The Rude Mechanicals

• These guys are NOT actors, but they think they can be.

• They do not know much at all about "theater."