Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Titania
A Midsummer Night's Dream character
Titania, Bottom and fairies in Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (Edwin Landseer, 1851), based on act 4, scene 1
First appearancec.1595
Created byWilliam Shakespeare
In-universe information
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Titania (/tɪˈtɑːniə/)[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. Yet their falling out has severely disrupted both worlds, as Titania explains at length in Act 1 Scene 2, ending "And this same progeny of evils comes /From our debate, from our dissension."

  1. ^ Titania, Lexico/OED. Only the first pronunciation is used in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, e.g. Shakespeare Recording Society (1995) The Tempest (audio CD).