oberon

     

Oberon, also Auberon, King of Shaows and Fairies, is best known as a character in William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, written in the mid-1590s. He is Consort to Titania, Queen of the Fairies.

Trivia about oberon

  • This fairy king's first line is "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania"
  • In Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", he was king of the fairies
  • A fairy:NO ROBE
  • He's the king of the fairies in medieval legend as well as in "A Midsummer Nights' Dream"
  • Fed up with this fairy king, Titania vows, "I have forsworn his bed and company"
  • Titania & Puck play a part in the Carl Maria Von Weber opera named for this king of the fairies
  • Carl Maria von Weber's 1826 opera about this king of the fairies was subtitled "or, the Elf King's Oath"
  • This king of the fairies appears in works by Wieland & Shakespeare
  • He was the fairy king; Titania was his queen