Titania

Introduction
Role in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Quarrel over the changeling boy and Oberon’s scheme (Act II, scene 1)
- Enchanted love and comic humiliation (Act II, scene 2–Act IV, scene 1)
- Reconciliation with Oberon (Act IV, scene 1 and Act V, epilogue)
Character appraisal and models

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Images

Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian changeling boy

Lillian Watson as Tytania

Titania, Oberon, and Puck illustrated by William Blake

Nick bottom played by Paul Rogers in A Midsummer Night's Dream(1968)

“Queen Titania and the Donkey,” mural on canvas by Hans Makart; in the Hermesvilla, Vienna, Aus.

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Article thoroughly revised and updated.	Urnesha Bhattacherjee	Dec 10, 2025
	New article added.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 18, 2011