Wilson the ass

1631 England: William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream was performed on a Sunday; the Puritans were outraged and made a certain Mr Wilson, who played Bottom in the play (and thus wore a donkey’s head), spend twelve hours in the stocks wearing an ass’s head, with a sign around his neck saying "Good people, I have played the beast/ And brought ill things to pass;/I was a man, but thus have made/Myself a silly ass" ...