Tom Snout

Tom Snout

Tom Snout is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". He is a tinker, and one of the amateur players in "Pyramus and Thisbe", a play within the play.

In the play-within-a-play, Tom Snout plays the wall which separates Pyramus' and Thisbe's gardens. In "Pyramus and Thisbe", the two lovers whisper to each other through Snout's fingers (representing a chink in the wall). Snout has eight lines under the name of Tom Snout, and twelve lines as "The Wall".

Tom Snout was originally set to play Pyramus's father, but the need for a wall was greater, so he discharged "The Wall". Snout is typically portrayed as a reluctant actor and very frightened.


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