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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. 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.

  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. 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.

  6. The Fairy-Queen - Wikipedia

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    The Fairy-Queen (1692; Purcell catalogue number Z.629) is a semi-opera by Henry Purcell; a "Restoration spectacular". [1] The libretto is an anonymous adaptation of William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. [2] First performed in 1692, The Fairy-Queen was composed three years before Purcell's death at the age of 35. Following his ...

  7. Nick Bottom - Wikipedia

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    Edwin Landseer, Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1851) Titania adoring Bottom.Oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, c. 1790. Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play.

  8. List of fairy and sprite characters - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream: Play Old Fairy: Hetalia: The Beautiful World: Oleana (Countess of Tenesa) Winx Club: Animated TV series Oona: Legend: Movie Orange Ethereal Fairy: Winx Club: Animated TV series Orion: Shugo Chara! Anime Ortensia (also Pia) Winx Club: Animated TV series, video game

  9. Peter Quince - Wikipedia

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    Peter Quince is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. He is one of the six mechanicals of Athens who perform the play which Quince himself authored, "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe" for the Duke Theseus and his wife Hippolyta at their wedding. Titania's Fairies also watch from a ...