Английская Википедия:Francis Flute

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Francis Flute (right) playing Thisbe in a 1978 Riverside Shakespeare Company production

Francis Flute is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.Шаблон:Sfn 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.Шаблон:Sfn

In the play Flute (Thisbe) speaks through the wall (played by Tom Snout) to Pyramus (Nick Bottom).Шаблон:Sfn

Flute is a young, excited actor who is disappointed when he finds he is meant to play a woman (Thisbe) in their interlude before the duke and the duchess.Шаблон:Sfn He generally is portrayed using a falsetto voice.Шаблон:Citation needed He is an unsure actor who asks many questions.Шаблон:Citation needed

Flute is often portrayed as the lowest in status of the Mechanicals, but his performance at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta arguably wins them favour at the court of the duke and duchess.Шаблон:Citation needed

Flute's name, like that of the other mechanicals, is metonymical and derives from his craft: "Flute" references a church organ, an instrument prominently featuring the bellows a bellows-mender might be called upon to repair.Шаблон:Sfn

In Jean-Louis and Jules Supervielle's French adaptation, Le Songe d'une nuit d'été (1959), Flute is renamed to Шаблон:Lang, where Georges Neveux's 1945 adaptation used the English names.Шаблон:Sfn

On the Elizabethan stage, the role of Flute and the other Mechanicals was intended to be doubled with Titania's four fairy escorts: Moth (also spelled Mote), Mustardseed, Cobweb, and Peaseblossom.Шаблон:Sfn

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See also

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