Act 2, Scene 1 - Video Performance: Oberon and Titania, Lines 60-80

Oberon and Titania, Lines 60-80

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Act 2,

Scene 1

Lines 60-80

A performance of lines 60-80 by Oberon and Titania in Act 2, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

myShakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1 Performance: Oberon and Titania Lines 60-80

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.

What, jealous Oberon? — Fairies, skip hence,

I have forsworn his bed and company.

Tarry, rash wanton. Am not I thy lord?

Then I must be thy lady. But I know

When thou hast stol’n away from fairyland,

And in the shape of Corin sat all day

Playing on pipes of corn and versing love

To amorous Phillida. Why art thou here,

Come from the farthest step of India,

But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon,

Your buskined mistress and your warrior love,

To Theseus must be wedded, and you come

To give their bed joy and prosperity?

How canst thou thus for shame, Titania,

Glance at my credit with Hippolyta,

Knowing I know thy love to Theseus?

Didst not thou lead him through the glimmering night

From Perigouna, whom he ravished,

And make him, with fair Aegles, break his faith

With Ariadne and Antiopa?