<P> Tom Snout is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream . He is a tinker, and one of the "mechanicals" of Athens, amateur players in Pyramus and Thisbe, a play within the play . </P> <P> In the play - within - a-play, Tom Snout plays the wall which separates Pyramus' and Thisbe's gardens . In Pyramus and Thisbe, the two lovers whisper to each other through Snout's fingers (representing a chink in the wall). Snout has eight lines under the name of Tom Snout, and two lines as The Wall . He is the Wall for Act V - Scene 1 . </P>

Who does snout play in pyramus and thisbe