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OberonIn 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
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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 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. "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. |
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