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Oberon

In folklore, king of the elves or fairies and, according to the 13th-century French romance Huon of Bordeaux, an illegitimate son of Julius Caesar. Shakespeare used the character in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Oberon's name was taken as the title of a masque by Ben Jonson in 1616, an epic by Christoph Wieland in 1780, and an opera by Weber in 1826.

Oberon

One of the five major moons of Uranus, discovered by German-born English astronomer William Herschel in 1789. It is 1,524 km/947 mi in diameter and orbits Uranus at an average distance of 584,000 km/363,000 mi with a period (time taken to circle the planet) of 13.5 days. Impact craters show fresh, light-coloured ice beneath its dark surface.



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In company with her male colleague, the great American actor, Isidore Bruno, she was producing a particularly poetical and fantastic interpretation of Midsummer Night's Dream: in which the artistic prominence was given to Oberon and Titania, or in other words to Bruno and herself.
The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
The Fairy-King is Oberon, and he lives across the lake--and sometimes he comes in a little boat--and we go and meet him and then we sing this song, you know.
Sylvie and Bruno by Carroll, Lewis View in context
"There came a sunbeam into the room," once he said to a friend, "and with it a whole troop of creatures floating in the ray, and I was off with them to Oberon and Fairyland.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
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