What was snugs role in the play a mid summers night dream?

Answer 1

He's a joiner, one of the tradesmen who are preparing a play to be performed for Theseus' wedding. He plays the lion in the play. Although he says he is "slow of study" and has trouble learning lines, and although Quince tells him he can ad lib roaring, he ends up having to learn an eight-line speech to persuade the audience that he really is an actor and not a real lion. The tradesmen's fears that Snug's lion will be so convincing that the ladies will be terrified is at once touching and ridiculous.