Editing Puck (folklore) (section)

==Notable cultural references==

===16th–17th century===
* [[Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|The character Robin Goodfellow]], also referred to as "The puck, Robin Goodfellow"  and Hobgoblin, appears as a vassal of the Fairy King [[Oberon]] in William Shakespeare's 1595/96 play ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', and is responsible for the mischief that occurs.
* The character also appears in ''[[Grim the Collier of Croydon]]'' (1660, but perhaps based on an earlier play). It is unknown how Shakespeare's Puck appeared on the stage; but the figure in ''Grim'' was costumed "in a suit of leather close to his body; his face and hands coloured russet-coloured, with a flail."{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}}
* A Robin Goodfellow play was performed at [[Hampton Court]] on 1 January 1604, followed by ''[[The Masque of Indian and China Knights]]''.<ref>Leeds Barroll, ''Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography'' (Philadelphia, 2001), p. 83.</ref>
* An early 17th century broadside ballad ''The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow'' describes the character as the [[wikt:emissary|emissary]] of [[Oberon]], the Fairy King of the Night, inspiring night-terrors in old women but also carding their wool while they sleep, leading travellers astray, taking the shape of animals, blowing out the candles to kiss the girls in the darkness, twitching off their bedclothes, or making them fall out of bed on the cold floor, tattling secrets, and changing babes in cradles with elflings.<ref>"The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow". ''A Book of [[Roxburghe Ballads]]''. https://www.boldoutlaw.com/puckrobin/roxburghe-pranks-robin-goodfellow.html</ref>
* Robin Goodfellow is the main speaker in Jonson's 1612 [[masque]] ''[[Love Restored]].''
* [[John Milton]], in ''[[L'Allegro]]'' tells "how the drudging [[Goblin]] swet / To earn his cream-bowle" by threshing a week's worth of grain in a night, and then, "Basks at the fire his hairy strength." Milton's Puck is not small and sprightly, but nearer to a [[Green Man]] or a hairy [[wild man|woodwose]]. An illustration of Robin Goodfellow from 1639 represents the influence of [[Pan (mythology)|Pan]] imagery, giving Puck the hindquarters, [[Cloven hoof|cloven hooves]] and horns of a goat.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070911170551/http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/ideas/folklore.html Folklore – Robin Goodfellow (Puck)] University of Victoria/Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada</ref>

===19th century===
[[File:Robin Goodfellow, Franklin, printed for Joseph Cundall, 1845.jpg|thumb|The Mad Pranks of Robin Goodfellow, by John Franklin, engraving by Edward  Dalziel, 1845]]
* Robin Goodfellow appears in 'The Mad Pranks of Robin Goodfellow', Gammer Gurton's Pleasant Stories of Patient Grissel, The Princess Rosetta, & Robin Goodfellow, and Ballads of the Beggar's Daughter, The Babes in the Wood, and Fair Rosamond, 1845.<ref>Gammer Gurton's Pleasant Stories of Patient Grissel, The Princess Rosetta, & Robin Goodfellow, and Ballads of the Beggar's Daughter, The Babes in the Wood, and Fair Rosamond. Printed for Joseph Cundall, 1845, [https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKM50mvgPy/Bj4R2VA3ZZZlm State Library of New South Wales DSM/821.04/T]</ref>
*Robin Goodfellow appears in an 1856 speech by [[Karl Marx]]: "In the signs that bewilder the middle class, the aristocracy and the poor profits of regression, we recognize our brave friend Robin Goodfellow, the old mole that can work the earth so fast, that worthy pioneer – the Revolution."<ref name="Marx">{{Cite web |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1856/04/14.htm |title=Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper |last=Karl |first=Marx |year=1856}}</ref>

===20th century===
* The character of Puck frames the tales in [[Rudyard Kipling|Rudyard Kipling's]] short story cycles ''[[Puck of Pook's Hill]]'' (1906) and ''[[Rewards and Fairies]]'' (1910).
* ''[[Dear Brutus]]'' is a 1917 fantasy play by [[J. M. Barrie]], the host "Lob" is the aged Puck from ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.
* The 1976 play ''Robin Goodfellow'' by [[Aurand Harris]] retells ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' from Puck's point of view.
* ''[[The Sandman (comic book)|The Sandman]]'' by [[Neil Gaiman]] includes Puck as a significant character. 
* The 1989 [[manga]] series ''[[Berserk (manga)|Berserk]]'' written and illustrated by [[Kentaro Miura]]. Set in a medieval Europe-inspired [[dark fantasy]] world features a character named Puck (パック, Pakku), a [[pixie|pisky]] elf who resembles a small fairy.
* In the Disney cartoon ''[[Gargoyles (TV series)|Gargoyles]]'', Puck is one of several Shakespearean characters with recurring roles. He is often an antagonist to the main characters, but his mischief can also help them.

===21st century===
* Puck is also a major character in [[Michael Buckley (author)|Michael Buckley]]'s 2005–2012 book series ''[[The Sisters Grimm]]''.
* Puck (Robin Goodfellow) is a character in [[Rob Thurman]]'s ''[[Cal Leandros series]]'' of novels (2006–).
* Puck is a main character in [[Julie Kagawa]]'s 2010–2015 ''[[The Iron Fey Series]]'', along with other characters from ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. Puck is also the main protagonist in Kagawa's The Iron Raven (2021), the first book in The Iron Fey: Evenfall series.<ref>{{Citation|last=Kagawa |first=Julie |title=The Iron Raven |place=Toronto |publisher=Inkyard Press |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-335-09176-5}}</ref>
* Puck is a major character in [[Chris Adrian]]'s 2011 novel ''[[The Great Night (novel)|The Great Night]]''.
* In the 2019 [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]] series ''[[Carnival Row]]'', the Puck are a race of fae.
* Since 1998, a Canadian artist calling himself ElectricGecko has drawn a weekly comic strip called "Puck" in which the ancient fairy is incarnated as a young-appearing red-haired Canadian woman living in Hamilton, Ontario.
* Puck (also known as Robin Goodfellow) joins the series [[Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV series)|''The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina'']] in its third and fourth seasons (2019–2020).<ref>{{Cite web |title=''Chilling Adventures of Sabrina'' (TV Series 2018–2020) |publisher=[[IMDb]] |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7569592/characters/nm7086839 |access-date=2021-01-21}}</ref>
* Puck also appears as a character in the [[God of War (franchise)|God of War]] video games, synthesized with the character of [[Mímir]] from [[Norse mythology|Norse Mythology.]] In these games, he is voiced by actor [[Alastair Duncan (actor, born 1958)|Alastair Duncan]].
*Puck is a hero in the [[Dota 2]] video game.
* 'Robyn Goodfellowe' is a young English girl in the Irish animated feature [[Wolfwalkers]] (2020)<ref>{{Cite web |title=''WolfWalkers'' |publisher=[[IMDb]] |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5198068/ |access-date=2023-03-24}}</ref>