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  2. A Midsummer Night's Dream - Wikipedia

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    A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers.

  3. Ariel's Song - Wikipedia

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    Ariel's song" is a verse passage in Scene ii of Act I of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. It consists of two stanzas to be delivered by the spirit Ariel , in the hearing of Ferdinand . In performance it is sometimes sung and sometimes spoken.

  4. Oberon - Wikipedia

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    In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, written in 1595/96, Oberon is the king of all of the fairies and is engaged in a dispute with his wife Titania, the fairy queen. They are arguing over custody of a child whom Oberon wants to raise to be his henchman.

  5. Nick Bottom - Wikipedia

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    The Fairy Queen Titania is awakened by Bottom's song. She has been enchanted by a love potion, which will cause her to fall in love with the first living thing that she sees when she wakes (no matter who, or what it is), made from the juice of a rare flower, once hit by Cupid's arrow, that her husband, Oberon , King of the Fairies, spread on ...

  6. Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream) - Wikipedia

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    Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Based on the Puck of English mythology and the púca of Celtic mythology, [1] [2] Puck is a mischievous fairy, sprite, or jester. He is the first of the main fairy characters to appear, and he significantly influences events in the play.

  7. Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream) - Wikipedia

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    Titania (/ t ɪ ˈ t ɑː n i ə /) [1] is a character in William Shakespeare's 1595–1596 play A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the play, she is the Queen of the fairies and wife of the Fairy King, Oberon. The pair are depicted as powerful natural spirits who together guarantee the fertility or health of the human and natural worlds.

  8. Ariel (The Tempest) - Wikipedia

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    She is presented as an actual fairy, having been sucked into The Tempest by Prospero when Shakespeare wrote her into the play. For most of the season, she appears as a small blue sprite imprisoned within Prospero's pocket watch. However, in the episode "And the Happily Ever Afters", she disguises herself as a human (Hayley McLaughlin), with the ...

  9. List of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) [1] was an English poet and playwright. He wrote approximately 39 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. [note 1]