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Character in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Based on the Puck of English mythology and the púca of Celtic mythology, Puck is a mischievous fairy, sprite, or jester. He is the first of the main fairy characters to appear, and he significantly influences events in the play. He delights in pranks such as replacing Nick Bottom's head with that of an ass.

The original texts of Shakespeare's plays do not have cast lists, and are not always consistent with characters' names. Puck's case is particularly awkward. Both the Quarto and the First Folio call the character "Robin Goodfellow" on the first entrance, but "Puck" later in the same scene, and they remain inconsistent. The Arden Shakespeare calls the character "Puck", and emends all stage directions (but not actual dialogue) that refer to the character as "Robin" or "Robin Goodfellow".

Mickey Rooney, in the Oscar winning 1935 film. Ian Holm, in the 1968 film. Phil Daniels, in the 1981 BBC Shakespeare television production. Robert Sean Leonard plays Puck in a high school production in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society. Brent Spiner plays a version of Puck in Disney's Gargoyles, first appearing in the season two episode "The Mirror" in 1995. Stanley Tucci, in the 1999 film. Tanner Cohen, in a high school production depicted in the 2008 film Were the World Mine. Hiran Abeysekera in the 2016 film. Avan Jogia, in the 2017 film. Ken Nwosu, in Upstart Crow in 2018. Jonathan Whitesell plays a version of Robin Goodfellow in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina in 2020.

Gertrud Eysoldt, first on 10 April, 1893 at the Riga City Theater, and later in Max Reinhardt's 1905 production in Berlin. Frederick Peisley in Donald Wolfit's production in 1947. Adam Darius, with the Stora Teatern in Göteborg, Sweden in 1961. John Kane, with The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1970. Puck is renamed "Dr. Wheelgood" in Diane Paulus's production The Donkey Show in 1999. Karenssa LeGear in Schoenberg Hall's 2007 production. Matthew Tennyson, with Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 2013. Kathryn Hunter in Julie Taymor's 2013 production for the Theatre for a New Audience.

Laurence Olivier, with St Edward's School, Oxford in 1923. Sebastian de Souza, with St Edward's School, Oxford.

French pianist and composer Claude Debussy dedicated a prelude to Puck, La danse de Puck.