Wondrous Strange

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OBERON- King of Fairies: Oberon quarrels with his Queen, Titania, over the matter of a changeling child in her care, whom the King wishes to make his page and servant.

TITANIA- Queen of Fairies; she is the guardian of a mortal child-a changeling-whom she refuses to surrender to Oberon. This argument between the two fairy monarchs has caused much upheaval in the natural world, causing the seasons to alter.

PUCK- Sometimes called Robin Goodfellow: this mischievous fairy is Oberon’s chief henchman. Puck turns Bottom, a rough-mannered workman of Athens, into a ass-headed monstrosity and-at Oberon’s malicious bidding-slips Titania a love potion, which causes the Queen to fall in love with the temporarily freakish Bottom.

Puck is also responsible for creating chaos amongst the Athenian lovers when he accidentally administers the same love potion to the wrong suitor.

also

PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, MUSTARDSEED, and others, fairy attendants on Queen Titania.

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