A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Oberon

Oberon is the Theseus of the fairy kingdom. They are so similar, in fact, that the actor who plays Theseus also plays Oberon, just as the actress who plays Hippolyta also plays Titania. Shakespeare’s very deliberate doubling of characters, particularly of Oberon, is done in order to create a parallel between the magical fantasy of the wood and the reality of Athens (and thus, our society too).

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