Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview... the powerful and feisty Queen of the Fairies. Titania is a formidable opponent for her husband, Oberon. While the king and queen fight often, their quarrel has recently become heated over the child of one of Titania’s worshippers. Oberon wants to take the boy in as his personal henchman, while Titania wants to raise him herself.
Personality... sassy and headstrong. Titania refuses to give up the Indian changeling child to her husband and, as a result, is punished for it. Much like Oberon, she’s been known to have a wandering eye.
Get to Know her in...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's comedy about two couples in love with the wrong partners, and how they are finally brought together rightly, thanks in part to the bungling work of Puck. It is completely in the language of the Bard, with Pfeiffer as the Fairy Queen and Kline as the one turned into her evening's lover with donkey ears.
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When Hermia's father promises her hand in marriage to a man she doesn't want, she runs away with her true love, Lysander. But their escape gets turned upside down by the fairy king Oberon and the mischievous Puck, whose magic turns love into hate and men into beasts!
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Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Company production is one of the best versions of this oft-attempted but seldom achieved vision.
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Classic Shakespeare play adapted for television by Russell T Davies. In the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, and young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father. Meanwhile, in the town below, amateur theatre group the Mechanicals rehearse, with all their comic rivalries. And beyond Athens, in the wild woods, dark forces are stirring...
