Snug
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Snug is a minor character from William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. He is a joiner who is hired by Peter Quince to play the part of the lion in Pyramus and Thisbe. When he is first assigned the part, he is afraid it may take him a while to finally remember his lines for it (even though the lion's role was nothing but roaring originally). He also worries as do the other characters that his loud and ferocious roar in the play will frighten off the ladies of power in the audience. In the end his part is revised to explain that he is in fact not a lion. This is a subtle reminder by Shakespeare that the mechanicals are not learned men, for they think that Snug's lion costume is fearsome & that they will be sentenced to death if the ladies are afraid.
