Titania fairy queen

Titania queen of the fairies

Robot dreams of beauty

A Mid Summer Night’s Dream (1999) Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania.

Drawing by William John Charles Pitcher, design for a costume for a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, produced by Robert Courtneidge at the Prince’s Theatre, Manchester, 1896-1903

Vivien Leigh as Titania, Queen of the Fairies, in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

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Arthur Rackham's A Midsummer Night's Dream 1908 (Shakespeare) is one of his most beautiful and sought-after works of illustration. TITANIA, fairy queen, appeared as an eladrin of immense beauty (Eladrins are elves native to Faerie a realm where magic is unpredictable and limitless). "Her skin was the color of honey and her hair shone with all the colors of autumn leaves. His eyes shone gold like the sun".

Game of Thrones star Christie is the latest actor to be cast as the fairy queen in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which is coming to the Bridge theatre in London etc etc. Here are some of the other top Titanias in whose footsteps she follows

Dip deep enough into the folk history of any European country and you will find stories about another folk who share our natural world. A race who must be respected and who are best avoided, the Fa…