Question: Snug is a minor character from who's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream", he is a joiner who comes from Athens who is hired by Peter Quince, and is one of the six mechanicals of Athens who perform the play which Quince himself authored, "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe" for the Duke Theseus and his wife Hippolyta at their wedding?
Context: Snug is a minor character from William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream".  He is a joiner who comes from Athens 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 (even though the lion's role was nothing but roaring originally).  Bottom offers to play the part of the lion (as he offers to play all other parts), but he is rejected by Quince, who worries (as do the other characters) that his loud and ferocious roar in the play will frighten the ladies of power in the audience and get Quince and all his actors hanged.  In the end, the lion's part is revised to explain that he is in fact not a lion and means the audience no harm.  This is a subtle reminder by Shakespeare that the mechanicals are not learned men. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96.  It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons.  These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals) who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.  The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world. Tom Snout is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".  He is a tinker, and one of the "mechanicals" of Athens, amateur players in "Pyramus and Thisbe", a play within the play. Demetrius is one of the iconic lovers in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.  He is a young Athenian man who is engaged to a young Athenian girl, Hermia.  He claims to love but really just appears this way to gain Duke Theseus' and Egeus' support(in one interpretation).  However, Hermia does not love Demetrius, but instead she loves a man called Lysander.  Demetrius follows Hermia and Lysander into the woods once they have fled Athens whilst Helena follows him.  Helena craves Demetrius' love but he doesn't return her love and instead finds her annoying and a nuisance as she persists to win his heart.  Eventually Demetrius does fall in love with Helena due to Oberon and Puck putting the love juice on his eyes.  The storyline is complex and it shows the difficulties of true love through comedy. Peter Quince is a character immortalized in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".  He is one of the six mechanicals of Athens who perform the play which Quince himself authored, "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe" for the Duke Theseus and his wife Hippolyta at their wedding. A mechanical is any of six characters in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" who perform the play-within-a-play "Pyramus and Thisbe".  Named for their occupations as skilled manual laborers, they are a group of amateur (mostly incompetent) actors from around Athens, looking to make names for themselves by having their production chosen among several acts as the courtly entertainment for the royal wedding party of Theseus and Hippolyta.  The biggest ham among them, Bottom, becomes the unlikely object of interest for love-potion-charmed fairy queen Titania after he is turned into a monster with the head, eyes and ears of an ass by the servant-spirit Puck. Francis Flute is a character from Athens in the play "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. Pyramus and Thisbe is a "mock opera" by the German-born composer John Frederick Lampe on the story of Pyramus and Thisbe.  It was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre, London on 25 January 1745.  The anonymous libretto (possibly the work of the composer or Henry Carey) is based on Richard Leveridge's "The Comickal Masque of Pyramus and Thisbe" (1716), itself inspired by the "play within a play" in Act V of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1935 American romance fantasy film of William Shakespeare's play, directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, and starring James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Muir, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell, Ross Alexander Anita Louise, Victor Jory and Ian Hunter.  Produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis for Warner Brothers, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr. from Reinhardt's Hollywood Bowl production of the previous year, the film is about the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta.  These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the story is set.  The play, which is categorized as a comedy, is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.  Felix Mendelssohn's music was extensively used, as re-orchestrated by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.  The ballet sequences featuring the fairies were choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska. Robin Starveling is a character in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1596), one of the Rude Mechanicals of Athens who plays the part of Moonshine in their performance of "Pyramus and Thisbe".  His part is often considered one of the more humorous in the play, as he uses a lantern in a failed attempt to portray Moonshine and is wittily derided by his audience.  Scholars have argued that his amateur performance communicates many of the problems Shakespeare would have been familiar with in the theatre: heckling, lack of adequate props, and amateur acting abilities.
Answer: William Shakespeare