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On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Edwin Landseer – Scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Titania and Bottom – Google Art Project. 1596 play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In the play, she is the Queen of the fairies and wife of the Fairy King, Oberon.
Due to Shakespeare’s influence, later fiction has often used the name “Titania” for fairy queen characters. In traditional folklore, the fairy queen has no name. As such, Shakespeare took the name “Titania” from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, where it is an appellation given to the daughters of Titans. Shakespeare’s Titania has a major role to play in one of A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s subplots. Titania is a very proud creature and as much of a force to contend with as her husband, Oberon.
She and Oberon are engaged in a marital quarrel over which of them should have the keeping of an Indian changeling boy. It is this quarrel which drives the plot, creating the mix-ups and confusion of the other characters in the play. Nick Bottom the weaver, who has been given the head of a donkey by Puck, who feels it is better suited to his character. While under the spell, Titania loses the powerful attributes she previously held and becomes fawning instead. After Oberon and Puck have had enough of watching Titania make a fool of herself to woo “a monster”, Oberon reverses the spell and the two reunite after Titania pronounces “what visions have I seen! Methought I was enamour’d of an ass. Olson argues that Titania falling in love with Bottom is an inversion of the ancient Circe story from Greek mythology.
In this case, the tables are turned on the character and rather than the sorceress turning her lovers into animals, she is made to love a donkey after Bottom has been transformed. Titania has appeared in many other paintings, poems, plays and other works. 26, Oberon, but this time set during the reign of Charlemagne. Alfred Lord Tennyson’s play The Foresters, which is a Robin Hood story, from 1892 includes a brief segment with Titania, Queen of the Fairies. Titania, one of Uranus’s moons, was named after Shakespeare’s character. Titania also appears in the cartoon Gargoyles, produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, which originally aired from October 24, 1994, to February 15, 1997. Oberon and Titania have been divorced for 1,001 years, but remarry during the course of the series.
In the 1999 film adaptation of the play, Titania is played by Michelle Pfeiffer. In 2016 Titania was added to the free-to-play action role-playing third-person shooter online game Warframe as the namesake of one of the titular Warframes, featuring razor-butterflies and assorted fairy-themed abilities. October 2017 to March 2018, the Queen of the Fairies is named Titania. Her husband is also named Oberon.
