The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania (1846), by Sir Joseph Paton

Titania was the name of a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. In Shakespeare's play, she is the queen of the fairies. Due to Shakespeare's influence, later fiction has often used the name "Titania" for fairy queen characters. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Fairy Queen was a figure from English folklore who was believed to rule the fairies. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

In traditional folklore, the fairy queen has no name. Shakespeare took the name 'Titania' from Ovid's Metamorphoses, where it is an appellation given to the daughters of Titans.^[1] Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC – Tomis, now Constanţa AD 17), a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women and mythological transformations. ... // Cover of George Sandyss 1632 edition of Ovids Metamorphosis Englished The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world in terms according to Greek and Roman points of view. ... In Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek: Titan; plural: Titanes) were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. ...

In the Shakespeare play, Titania is a very proud creature and as much of a force to contend with as her husband Oberon. The marital quarrel she and her husband are engaged in over which of them should have the keeping of a changeling page is the engine that drives the mix ups and confusion of the other characters in the play. Due to an enchantment cast by Oberon's henchman Puck, Titania magically falls in love with a rude mechanical (a lower class laborman), Nick Bottom the Weaver, who has been given the head of an ass by Puck, who feels it is better suited to his character (Which bears a resemblance to the story of Lycaon). Shakespeare redirects here. ... Oberon, also Auberon, King of the Fairies, is most well-known as a character in William Shakespeares play, A Midsummer Nights Dream, written in the mid-1590s. ... Oberon, also Auberon, King of the Fairies, is most well-known as a character in William Shakespeares play, A Midsummer Nights Dream, written in the mid-1590s. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Puck (mythology). ... Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play, and is famously known for getting his head transformed into that of a donkey by the elusive Puck within the play. ... Lycaon, in Greek mythology, was a son of Priam and Laothoe. ...

Oberon states in the play:

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,

Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,

Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,

With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:

There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,

Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;

And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,

Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in

Other historical references

Subsequently, Titania has appeared in many other paintings, poems, plays and even graphic novels.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe took the figures from Shakespeare's work to Faust I. Titania is married to Oberon, and the couple is celebrating its golden wedding anniversary in Faust I. Johann Wolfgang Goethe  , IPA: , later von Goethe, (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath: he was a poet, novelist, dramatist, humanist, scientist, theorist, painter, and for ten years chief minister of state for the duchy of Weimar. ... Front cover of Faust, Leipzig 1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Faust is a tragic play and the best known version of the Faust story. ... Oberon, also Auberon, King of Shadows and Fairies, is best known as a character in William Shakespeares play, A Midsummer Nights Dream, written in the mid-1590s. ... A wedding anniversary is an anniversary which falls on the month and day a particular wedding took place, and which recurs every subsequent year. ...

Titania is also the largest of Uranus's moons, among others that are also named after Shakespearian characters and those of Alexander Pope. Atmospheric pressure   Titania (ti-taan-ee-É™ or tye-tan-ee-É™) is the largest moon of Uranus. ... Adjectives: Uranian Atmosphere Surface pressure: 120 kPa (at the cloud level) Composition: 83% Hydrogen 15% Helium 1. ... A natural satellite is an object that orbits a planet or other body larger than itself and which is not man-made. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Modern References

• She has occasional cameo roles in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic series, and is a major supporting character in The Books of Magic. In the mythology of those comic series, she is a mortal woman, who has lived and ruled in fairy land so long that no one remembers she once looked (and still is, under her magical seeming) human. It is hinted, though never outright stated, that she may have once been the lover of Dream, the protagonist of the Sandman series. It is eventually revealed that she is the mother of Timothy Hunter, the protagonist of the Books of Magic series.
• Titania, with Oberon, provides the characters of A Midsummer Tempest, by Poul Anderson, with magical assistance.
• In the middle-grade novel The Revenge of the Shadow King, by Derek Benz and J.S. Lewis, Titania appears as the all-powerful and benevolent Queen of the Shadowlands of Faerie, who was given a Jewel that her husband Oberon is jealous of.

Lady Titania, as portrayed in Gargoyles

• In Disney's Gargoyles, Titania was a character voiced by Kate Mulgrew. She was the queen of the fairies, but exiled from Avalon at the will of her Lord and Husband, Oberon. It is possible that she manipulated Oberon into that action though, as she was shown to make several such clever feints and ploys during her appearances in the series. The royal pair eventually reconciled and remarried. This was all explained when it was revealed that Titania was the mother-in-law of the gargoyles' chief antagonist, David Xanatos.
• Titania and Oberon also appeared as major characters in the novel Magic Street by Orson Scott Card
• Titania is also mentioned in the Magic: the Gathering Series in the Urza's Saga expansion pack as the embodiment of Argoth, a forest in which Urza and Mishra wage a final war against each other.
• Titania is the queen of the Summer Court of the Faeries in Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books.
• In Frewin Jones's The Faerie Path, Titania is the mother of the book's main character, Tania.
• Titania is the Queen of the Fay in Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game.
• Titania is a character in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. She is the Deputy Commander in the Greil Mercenaries and a close friend of Griel.
• In the Doubled Edge series by Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis, Titania is the High Queen of the Sidhe (elves) and the consort to Oberon. She is the patron and protector of the young magician Elizabeth Tudor. It is hinted that Titania is in fact Hera.
• In Garry Kilworth's 1996 fantasy novel A Midsummer's Nightmare Titania appears as queen of the elvesfolk, which have to leave the sherwood forest in an old bus, to find a new home , their travel wakes up old fairy and magic folk, good and sinister ones, and as Titania falls in love with a human baby and steals /(borrows)it, their adventure becomes even more turbulent and funny.
• In Last Guardian of Everness a 2005 fantasy novel by John C. Wright Titania appears as the queen of the fairies, the wayward wife of Oberon. It is hinted that Titania is an ancient earth-mother goddess, and Oberon a sky-father. It is Titania who, in her guise as Nimue, enchanted and imprisoned Merlin the Magician in the bole of an oak tree. She is also the mother of the protagonist Wendy.

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