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Are Titania and Oberon married in the beginning of the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?

Question #76821. Asked by barbaro4ever.
Last updated Jun 02 2021.

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In Act II, scene i, which is where the fairies show up, Puck remarks of Oberon and Titania, "The king doth keep his revels here tonight. Take heed the queen not come within his sight."

Slightly later, Oberon snaps at Titania, "Tarry, rash wanton! Am I not thy lord?" To which Titania sniffs "Then, I must be thy lady...."

Sounds like marriage to me.

Mar 06 2007, 3:05 PM
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According to this sypnosis I'd say yes!

In the opening scene, Hermia refuses to comply with her father Egeus's wish for her to marry his chosen man, Demetrius; in response, Egeus quotes before Theseus an ancient Athenian law whereby a daughter must marry the suitor chosen by her father, or else face death or lifelong chastity worshipping Diana as a nun. Hermia and her lover Lysander therefore decide to elope by escaping through the forest at night. Hermia informs her best friend Helena, but Helena has recently been rejected by Demetrius and decides to win back his favor by revealing the plan to him. Demetrius, followed doggedly by Helena, chases Hermia, who, in turn, chases Lysander, from whom she becomes separated.

Meanwhile, Oberon, king of the fairies, and his queen, Titania, arrive in the same forest to attend Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding. Oberon and Titania are estranged because Titania refuses to give her Indian page-boy to Oberon for use as his "Knight" or "henchman," since the child's mother was one of Titania's worshippers. Oberon seeks to punish Titania's disobedience and recruits the mischievous Puck (also called Hobgoblin and Robin Goodfellow) to help him apply a magical juice from a flower called "love-in-idleness," which makes the victim fall in love with the first living thing he sees when he awakens. Oberon applies the juice to Titania in order to distract her and force her to give up the page-boy.

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Mar 06 2007, 3:18 PM
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They have different courts, but they are still married. In act 2 they seem to have been separated for some time, but by the end of act 4 they are reconciled again.

Mar 06 2007, 4:36 PM
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