A Midsummer Night's Dream ~ Humour Helps ~ Humour is often the key to any good performance. In the Shakespearean play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream the playwright – William Shakespeare – utilises humour as a tool to both enlighten the viewer and to create an interesting play. One very humorous character, in this play, is the weaver – Nick Bottom. One funny line – that was used when an actual ass-head had been placed on him – is when Bottom speaks of his friends’ “…knavery…” as to try to make “…an ass of…” him (III, i, 110). Here Bottom has no idea that he has an actual ass-