Oberon (poem)

Title page of the first edition, without the author's name.

Oberon is an epic poem by the German writer Christoph Martin Wieland. It was based on the epic romance Huon de Bordeaux, a French medieval tale,[1] and influenced by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Alexander Pope's version of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Merchant's Tale.[2] It first appeared in 1780 and went through seven rewrites before its final form was published in 1796.

  1. ^ Brown C. Oberon. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.
  2. ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Carl E. Eggert (1920). "Oberon" . In Rines, George Edwin (ed.). Encyclopedia Americana.