ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Robin Starveling 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. His real job is as a tailor.

Detailed explanation-3: -Starveling as seen in the theatrical play of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Robin Starveling is a tailor and he too works for the drama. He is given the role of Thisby’s mother.

Detailed explanation-4: -Act 1, scene 2 Six Athenian tradesmen decide to put on a play, called “Pyramus and Thisbe, ” for Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding. Pyramus will be played by Bottom the weaver and Thisbe by Francis Flute the bellows-mender.

Detailed explanation-5: -Act 5 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream portrays a play performed by a group of mechanicals (craftsmen) in celebration of Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding. (In the timeline of the play, Theseus and Hippolyta appear at the beginning and the end.) Afterward, Oberon, Puck, and Titania enter.