Talk:Nick Bottom

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This is an odd article. If memory serves the "Rude Mechanicals" are referred to as such only once or twice by the more refined characters ... it isn't as if this is the name of a club or anything that they belong to. There is also a lot of summary of the plot of /A Midsummer Night's Dream/, which isn't exactly relevant. Lesonyrra 23:44, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

... and the same goes for the name "hempen homespuns," except (again, if memory serves) this is how Puck refers to them. Lesonyrra 23:47, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I would argue that summaries of an individual character's plotline are entirely appropriate for an encyclopedic article. There are some opinion based comments that could use some looking at within the article. The article does not contain a full plot summary of the play, only of Bottom's role within it. Bu the way, I reverted to the version using the word "ass" rather than "donkey" for the simple reason that in the play itself it is referred to as an ass's head and I see no reason to use the slightly more G-rated "donkey" when ass is a perfectly legitimate name of an animal and is being used in that context alone. Benjudah 19:39, 2 March 2007 (UTC)