Oberon
Oberon, king of the fairies in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Oberon’s conflict with his wife, Titania, sets the play’s action in motion. The character of Oberon was derived largely from Lord Berners’s prose translation of the medieval French poem Huon de Bordeaux, though it is also indebted to the story of Zeus in Greek mythology.
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Article Title:
Oberon
Website Name:
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date Published:
26 June 2020
Access Date:
February 22, 2025