Character Definition
His unwilling attitude to playing a woman is exemplified by the line 'Nay faith, let me not play a woman, I have a beard coming.' 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.
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