What Shakespeare play featured a fairy named Oberon?
Fairy Queen Shakespeare most notably in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". In "The Faerie Queene", Spenser's fairy queen is named Gloriana, and is also referred to as Tanaquill, which "appears to be an epithet for Gloriana, Queen of Faeries" derived from the name of the wife of Tarquinius Priscus. She is the daughter of Oberon, who in Shakespeare's later play is married to Titania, a name derived from Ovid as an epithet of the Roman goddess Diana. Diana was regularly portrayed as the ruler of the fairy kingdom in demonological literature, such as King James VI of Scotland's "Daemonologie", which says that she
The Fairy Knight draws upon the fairy lore of the folktales and legends of the British Isles, and so can be classed with similar works like Drayton's "Nymphidia". In the play, Loswello is the name of the fairy knight, while a silly politician called Politico is the pretender king of the fairies. The Fairy Knight The Fairy Knight, or Oberon the Second is an early Stuart era stage play, a comedy of uncertain and problematic authorship. Never published in its historical period, the play existed only in a manuscript, which is now MS. V.a.128 in the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library in