Why are the mechanicals putting on a play in Midsummer Nights Dream?

Answer 1

The Mechanicals are working class people which means that they have industrial jobs such as tinkering, weaving and tailoring. Working class usually are underpaid and uneducated. The Mechanicals are poor so they put on a play to earn some money

Answer 2

i don't exactly know, i suppose shakespeares not around so we can ask him. the main purpose was for them to perform the play for hippolyta and thesus wedding. also part of the plot includes bottom being turned into an ass and becoming the love intrest of titania

Answer 3

They want to entertain their Duke, Theseus, on the occasion of his marriage. And there is a possible financial reward if they succeed. Flute says, in Act IV Scene 2, "Thus hath he lost sixpence a day during his life; he could not have 'scaped sixpence a day; an the duke had not given him sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged; he would have deserved it; sixpence a day for Pyramus or nothing."

Answer 4

He thinks it counts among young people (extract from the Cambridge School Summary)