I amused them by wearing a flower crown and pitching my voice high to play Puck, a mischievous sprite.

Braid dandelions or daisies into a floral crown, and the wearer becomes a forest sprite.

The show’s makers also used crowd sprites, in which actors were filmed individually on green screens and then arranged to appear as part of the crowd.

Pee-wee is a sprite, a creature of myth, like Pan — immune to time or decay or serious illness.

Her near life-size ceramic figures of animals, sprites and fairy-tale heroines in moments of frozen intimacy are prickly and emotional in a way that’s hard to get over.