Nick Bottom
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A man with a "donkey on his head" (AUDIO: Regrets [+]Loading...["Regrets (audio story)"]) featured in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. (PROSE: A Midsummer's Nightmare [+]Loading...["A Midsummer's Nightmare (short story)"])
After a failed audition in which her lecturer had explained why she thought Cleo Proctor was not suitable for the role of Isabella in her end-of-year showcase, Cleo mused to Shawna Thompson that "she might as well have just said 'audition for King Lear or some other hairy man'", before going on to ask "or what was that one with the donkey on his head". Shawna responded that the question was one for her girlfriend, Abby McPhail. (AUDIO: Regrets [+]Loading...["Regrets (audio story)"])
The Fourth Doctor once identified A Midsummer Night's Dream as the "one with the ass's head and the chink in the wall". (PROSE: A Midsummer's Nightmare [+]Loading...["A Midsummer's Nightmare (short story)"])
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Nick Bottom, who is not named in any source, provides comic relief in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He is famously known for getting his head transformed into that of a donkey.
