Quince

Definition and stakes

Portrait of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare,  A Midsummer Night's Dream

“ QUINCE. Robin Starveling, the tailor.
STARVELING. Here, Peter Quince.
QUINCE. Robin Starveling, you must play Thisby's mother.
Tom Snout, the tinker.
SNOUT. Here, Peter Quince.
QUINCE. You, Pyramus' father; myself, Thisby's father; Snug,
the
joiner, you, the lion's part. And, I hope, here is a play
fitted.
SNUG. Have you the lion's part written? Pray you, if it be,
give it
me, for I am slow of study.
QUINCE. You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.
BOTTOM. Let me play the lion too. I will roar that I will do
any
man's heart good to hear me
”
Source: Gutenberg

Portrait of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare,  A Midsummer Night's Dream

“ BOTTOM. You were best to call them generally, man by man,
according
to the scrip.
QUINCE. Here is the scroll of every man's name which is thought
fit, through all Athens, to play in our interlude before the
Duke
and the Duchess on his wedding-day at night.
BOTTOM. First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats on;
then
read the names of the actors; and so grow to a point.
”
Source: Gutenberg

Portrait of Oscar Fay Adams Oscar Fay Adams,  A motley jest (1909)

“ Thou liest, Peter Quince. I am but plain Robin Starveling, but you are become a very monster.
Re-enter Snout, with a deer’s head and horns.
Quince. Good masters three, you are enchanted, and pity o’ my life it is. ’Tis I alone that doth remain as much mankind as I was ever.
Snout. An’ you count yourself the proper likeness of a man you are most horribly mistook, and so it is, Peter Quince.
”
Source: Gutenberg

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