ABSTRACT
Oberon, MND, king of the fairies. Angry at his wife Titania because she is withholding from him the possession of an Indian boy, he uses a love potion so that she falls in love with the assheaded Bottom. Later, when she gives up the child, he returns her to normal. He then blesses the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Al though he enforces his will upon Titania, he does not greatly mistreat her, and in general he is depicted as being sympathetic and gently amused by the foibles of the lovers. Oberon was almost certainly taken from the Fr. romance Huon of Bordeaux, translated into English in 1533, though the name was in circulation in Sh.'s time.
