Titania: Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, As in revenge have suck'd up from the sea Contagious fogs; which, falling in the land, Hath every pelting river made so proud That they have overborne their continents. The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard; The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrion flock; The nine-men's-morris is fill'd up with mud, And the quaint mazes in the wanton green For lack of tread are undistinguishable. (2.1.88-100)

7. Titania & Oberon These "night" characters also have black costumes and masks. Though Titania and Oberon are formally dressed (as if for a concert or a wedding), their masks alienate the familiar, reminding us that they are "forces of the night' rather than "real people". This is a more sinister moment than School 11. Fairy rulers closeup where the angelic wings of our quarrellers seem to undercut the moment's tensions. Note Oberon's fashionably turned up jacket sleeves and Titania's abundance of gauze. See also: Bar 15. Ill met by bar light