https://nosweatshakespeare.com <strong><a href="/">Modern Shakespeare</a></strong> resources, <strong><a href="/sonnets/">sonnet translations</a></strong> & lots more! Mon, 06 Feb 2023 22:16:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://nosweatshakespeare.com/characters/titania-midsummer-nights-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-2993509 Mon, 06 Feb 2023 22:16:03 +0000 https://nosweatshakespeare.com/?page_id=1024458#comment-2993509 You’ve got it all wrong. Titania (one of the Titans) at the time of Shakespeare was often cast as a grossly obese bearded man whom everyone knew as their drinking buddy. The humor is intensified between Titania and her little husband Oberon and between Titania and “Bottom” as an ass when Titania is played by an obese man whom everyone in the audience knew and loved as a drinking buddy. Titania was never meant to be a delicate beautiful woman.

]]> https://nosweatshakespeare.com/characters/titania-midsummer-nights-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-2958313 Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:03:47 +0000 https://nosweatshakespeare.com/?page_id=1024458#comment-2958313 Is Titania kind and luving and cumpashinit?

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