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Characters in English Lit
Characters in English Lit
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English
Undergraduate 2
07/15/2008

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Oberon
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King of the fairies in A Midsummer's Night Dream
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Titania
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From Ovid's Metamorphosis and also A Midsummer's Night Dream. Queen of the Fairies
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Puck
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A mischievous fairy who delights in playing pranks on mortals in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Lysander
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A young man of Athens, in love with Hermia in the beginning and end of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Demetrius
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A young man of Athens, initially in love with Hermia and ultimately in love with Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Hermia
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Egeus’s daughter, a young woman of Athens. In love with Lysander. In A Midsummer's Night Dream.
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Helena
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A young woman of Athens, in love with Demetrius in A Midsummer's Night Dream
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Egeus
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Hermia’s father, who brings a complaint against his daughter to Theseus in A Midsummer's Night Dream
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Theseus
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The heroic duke of Athens, engaged to Hippolyta. In A Midsummer's Night Dream.
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Nick Bottom
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The overconfident weaver chosen to play Pyramus in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration in A Midsummer's Night Dream
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