Bottom

in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, an Athenian weaver who plays the part of Pyramus in the interlude of Pyramus and Thisbe. Oberon, the fairy king, punishes his queen Titania by directing Puck to anoint her eyelids with "love-in-idleness." The result of this treatment is that Titania falls in love with and caresses Bottom, upon whom Puck has fixed the head of an ass. Bottom is a brawny, awkward fellow, ignorant, but full of conceit and mock heroism. See Midsummer Night'S Dream