Word: oberon
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...transplanting does no violence to Shakespeare's intentions, although some of the erratically varying performances do. Among the high spots: Lumbly's liltingly Caribbean and muscular Oberon and Lorraine Toussaint's Titania, his equal in dignity and a nonpareil in languorous erotic indulgence. Bottom (Abraham) and his pals, the "rude mechanicals," are for once believable working men, unpatronizingly evoked if, alas, therefore a little less funny than usual. This Midsummer will not stand in memory with Peter Brook's 1971 landmark staging or Liviu Ciulei's 1985 war of the sexes. But it is a vibrant start to a welcome...
...Midsummer Night's Dream'" develops a name in Shakespeare's play into a character, the Herm. This creature is simultaneously the source of desire and puzzlement to all the denizens of the forest--from Puck, who is a hairy, horny little bugger in Carter's fantasy, to Oberon and Titania...
Both Titania and Oberon, each some 1,000 miles in diameter, have huge, distinctive features. Voyager spotted a three-mile-high mountain on Oberon and a valley running all the way across the visible surface of Titania. On the moon Ariel, 730 miles across, three linear patterns seemed to resemble the tracks left by terrestrial glaciers. Only Umbriel, 740 miles in diameter and covered with overlapping meteorite craters but with few other features, seems to have been largely unaffected by Uranian gravity--for reasons scientists cannot explain...
Even as new Voyager transmissions were being received at J.P.L., scientists were feverishly interpreting the early results. Computer-enhanced photographs of the moons Titania and Oberon, each about 1,000 miles in diameter, showed that Oberon had a three-mile-high peak and that the surfaces of both moons were pocked with white spots from which streaks of bright material radiated. To Bradford Smith, head of the Voyager imaging team, the spots were evidence that meteorite impacts had pulverized the gray surface, exposed an underlying layer of ice and spewed it out in all directions. The haze covering the Uranian...
Historical records also show that for thousands of years people believed that, since ferns flowered but did not set visible seeds, they had supernatual powers. Even Shakespeare wrote that Oberon, King of the Fairies in A Midsummer's Night Dream, used these invisible seeds to make himself invisible and dealt harshly with those who wished to share his secret...