ABSTRACT
In a fleeting moment in act 2, scene 1, A Midsummer Night's Dream depicts a queer pregnancy: that of the Indian votaress. Her pregnancy is out of step with time, characterized by lesbian-like eroticism, female community, and the absence of fathers. It is also a pregnancy that ends in death at childbirth, failing to meet the promised, happy end. In this scene, Titania remembers the Indian votaress's pregnancy, a pregnancy crucial to the problem that incites action in the play—Titania's attempt to care for the Indian votaress's son, the Indian boy.
