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and the magic power of his horn, a blast of which causes all wicked persons to dance, and of a certain ring, which had been abstracted from its owner, Titania, and to which all the spirit world was subject. Commanded to go to the Pope at Rome before consummating marriage with the kalif's daughter,
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For the slaying of Karl the Great's despicable son, Charlot, Huon duke of Guienne, is condemned to go to Babylon (or Bagdad) and demand four molars and a tuft of the beard of the kalif after kissing the latter's daughter and slaying her intended. This feat is accomplished through the friendship of
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with the vow never to return to her unless a human couple should be found who were absolutely faithful, since she had championed the faithless girl wife of an aged dotard. About the invented quarrel of Oberon and his queen, Titania, is centred the whole conception of Wieland's poem. Thrown by the
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instrumentality of Titania into captivity in Tunis, Huon and Rezia withstand the first test of temptation and, reunited, return to Paris and reconcile Karl.
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Huon yields to temptation and the couple are thrown on a desert isle by Oberon, who had deserted his
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It had a major influence on many musical and poetic works of the time, such as Schiller's
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was evidently greatly inspired by Giesecke's and thus on Seyler's version of
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Title page of the first edition, without the author's name.
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Index


epic poem
Christoph Martin Wieland
Huon de Bordeaux
Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Alexander Pope
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Merchant's Tale
Oberon
Titania

Sophie Seyler
Hüon und Amande
Don Carlos
Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy
The Magic Flute
Francisco Manoel de Nascimento
Sophie Seyler
Hüon und Amande
Karl Ludwig Giesecke
Paul Wranitzky
Matthew Lewis
William Sotheby
John Quincy Adams
The Magic Flute
Emanuel Schikaneder
Carl Maria von Weber
Oberon
Gustav Paul Closs

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