Editing Nick Bottom (section)

{{Short description|Character in A Midsummer Night's Dream}}
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[[File:Edwin Landseer - Scene from A Midsummer Night&#39;s Dream. Titania and Bottom - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[Edwin Landseer]], ''[[Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' (1851)]]

[[File:Johann Heinrich Füssli - Titania liebkost den eselköpfigen Bottom.jpg|thumb|right|''Titania adoring  Bottom''. Oil on canvas by [[Henry Fuseli]], c. 1790]]

'''Nick Bottom''' is a character in [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' who provides [[comic relief]] throughout the play. A weaver by trade, he is famously known for getting his head transformed into that of a donkey by the elusive [[Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|Puck]]. Bottom and Puck are the only two characters who converse with and progress the three central stories in the whole play.  Puck is first introduced in the fairies' story and creates the drama of the lovers' story by messing up who loves whom, and places the [[donkey]] head on Bottom's in his story. Similarly, Bottom is performing in a play in his story intending it to be presented in the lovers' story, as well as interacting with [[Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|Titania]] in the fairies' story.