Francis Flute - Wikipedia Francis Flute Francis Flute ( right ) playing Thisbe in a 1978 Riverside Shakespeare Company production Francis Flute is a character in William Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream. His occupation is a bellows - mender. He is forced to play the female role of Thisbe in `` Pyramus and Thisbe '', a play - within - the - play which is performed for Theseus ' marriage celebration. In the play Flute ( Thisbe ) speaks through the wall ( played by Tom Snout ) to Pyramus ( Nick Bottom ). Flute is a young, excited actor who is disappointed when he finds he is meant to play a woman ( Thisbe ) in their interlude before the duke and the duchess. He generally is portrayed using a falsetto voice. He is an unsure actor who asks a lot of questions. Flute is often portrayed as the lowest in status of the Mechanicals, but his performance at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta arguably wins them favour at the court of the duke and duchess. Flute 's name, like that of the other mechanicals, is metonymical and derives from his craft : `` Flute '' references a church organ, an instrument prominently featuring the bellows a bellows - mender might be called upon to repair. In Jean - Louis and Jules Supervielle 's french adaptation, Le Songe d'une nuit d'été ( 1959 ), Flute is renamed to Tubulure, where Georges Neveux 's 1945 adaptation used the English names. On the Elizabethan stage, the role of Flute and the other Mechanicals was intended to be doubled with Titania 's four fairy escorts : Moth, Mustardseed, Cobweb, and Peaseblossom. References ^ Jump up to : Brooks 1979. Jump up ^ Blits 2003, p. 46. Jump up ^ Blits 2003, p. 43. Jump up ^ White 1960, p. 344. Jump up ^ Weiner 1971, p. 339. Sources Blits, Jan H. ( 2003 ). The Soul of Athens : Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739106532. Brooks, Harold, ed. ( 1979 ). A Midsummer Night 's Dream. The Arden Shakespeare, second series. London : Bloomsbury Publishing. doi : 10.5040 / 9781408188095.00000022. ISBN 9781408188095 -- via Drama Online Library. ( Subscription required ( help ) ). Weiner, Andrew D. ( 1971 ). `` '' Multiformitie Uniforme `` : A Midsummer Night 's Dream ''. ELH. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 38 ( 3 ) : 329 -- 349. doi : 10.2307 / 2872222. eISSN 1080 - 6547. ISSN 0013 - 8304. JSTOR 2872222 -- via JSTOR. ( Registration required ( help ) ). White, Kenneth S. ( 1960 ). `` Two French Versions of A Midsummer Night 's Dream ''. The French Review. American Association of Teachers of French. 33 ( 4 ) : 341 -- 350. ISSN 0016 - 111X. JSTOR 383649 -- via JSTOR. ( Registration required ( help ) ). See also Mechanical ( character ) William Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream Characters Lovers Theseus and Hippolyta Oberon and Titania Hermia and Lysander Helena and Demetrius Mechanicals Nick Bottom Peter Quince Francis Flute Robin Starveling Tom Snout Snug Other characters Puck Egeus Philostrate Film 1909 1935 1959 1968 1999 Television 1969 1980 2016 Stage A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( 1970, play ) The Park ( 1983, play ) The Donkey Show ( 1999, musical ) The Dreaming ( 2001, musical ) Ballet A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( 1962 ) The Dream ( 1964 ) Opera The Fairy - Queen ( 1692 ) Pyramus and Thisbe ( 1745 ) Puck ( 1949 ) A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( 1960, opera ) The Enchanted Island ( 2011 ) Film adaptations Wood Love ( 1925 ) Dream of a Summer Night ( 1983 ) Get Over It ( 2001 ) A Midsummer Night 's Rave ( 2002 ) Midsummer Dream ( 2005 ) Were the World Mine ( 2008 ) Strange Magic ( 2015 ) Other adaptations The Triumph of Beauty ( 1646 ) St. John 's Eve ( 1852 ) `` Fascination '' ( 1994 ) Literature A Midsummer Tempest ( 1974 ) A Midsummer Night 's Gene ( 1997 ) A Midsummer 's Nightmare ( 1997 ) Lords and Ladies ( 1992 ) The Great Night ( 2011 ) Comics Auberon Faerie Titania Music A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( 1842, Mendelssohn ) Wedding March ( 1842, Mendelssohn ) Three Shakespeare Songs ( 1951 ) Symphony No. 8 ( 1992, Henze ) Il Sogno ( 2004 ) Art Hermia and Lysander The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania Scene from A Midsummer Night 's Dream Related The Sandman : Dream Country ( 1991 ) Pyramus and Thisbe Mechanical Love - in - idleness The Apartment ( 1996 ) Wicker Park ( 2004 ) This article about a literature character is a stub. 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Question: who is flute in a midsummer night's dream
Answer: a bellows-mender