An early 17th century broadside ballad, " The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow "— which is so deft and literate it has been taken for the work of Ben Jonson — describes Puck / Robin Goodfellow as the emissary of Oberon, the Faery King, inspiring night-terrors in old women but also carding their wool while they sleep, leading travellers astray, taking the shape of animals, blowing out the candles to kiss the girls in the darkness, twitching off their bedclothes, or making them fall out of bed on the cold floor, tattling secrets, and changing babes in cradles with elflings.

* In 1610, Ben Jonson wrote a masque of Oberon, the Faery Prince.

* Oberon is also referred to in the books The Faery Realm by Ferwin Jones and in the Iron Fey series by Julie Kagawa.

** Oberon, the Faery Prince

Shakespeare may have been inspired by the episode in Ben Jonson's masque Oberon, the Faery Prince ( performed 1 January 1611 ), where the satyrs have " tawnie wrists " and " shaggy thighs "; they " run leaping and making antique action ".

Nine princes and four princesses of Amber, including Prince Corwin as narrator of the first book series, try to deal with the disappearance of Oberon, their father, and an apparent need for succession of the throne.

*" Good night, sweet Prince ", Brand says to Benedict in The Hand of Oberon ( chapter 13 ).

: Evidence: The dance of twelve satyrs is similar to the dance of satyrs in Ben Jonson's masque Oberon performed at Court on 1 January 1611, but Wells and Taylor believe it is a later interpolation.

The libretto for The Magic Flute, written by Schikaneder, shares much of its plot and many of its characters with the Singspiel Oberon, written by Karl Ludwig Giesecke for the Schikaneder troupe two years earlier ( and set to music by Paul Wranitzky ) as a re-adaptation of Sophie Seyler's Singspiel Hüon und Amande, ultimately based on the poem Oberon by Wieland.

* Oberon is a character in The Scottish History of James IV, a play written ca.

* In 1826, Carl Maria von Weber's opera, Oberon, ( written after a poem by Christoph Martin Wieland ) debuted at Covent Garden in London, England.

According to Princess Merle, the biography written by Charles Higham with Roy Moseley, Oberon suffered even further damage to her complexion in 1940 from a combination of cosmetic poisoning and an allergic reaction to sulfa drugs.

** Oberon – written in Oberon-2

It is written almost entirely in the Oberon programming language.

It is written completely in the Oberon programming language.

The song " The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke ", of Queen's second album Queen II, written by Freddie Mercury, mentions Mab in the part: " Oberon and Titania watched by a Harridan / Mab is the queen and there's a good apothecary man.

An episode was written in 1976 by Vince Wernham and drawn by Don Lawrence, which was not picked up by Dutch publisher Oberon.

* Bluebottle OS, computer operating system written in the Oberon programming language

He also sang the Captain in Wozzeck and, the roles of Oberon ( A Midsummer Night's Dream ) and the Emperor Nero, both of which were originally written for countertenor.

* Oberon, by Weber-Fatima

* Oberon ( opera ), by Carl Maria von Weber

* Oberon, a fictional character in the series Black Swan Rising, by Lee Carroll

* Oberon, a beer manufactured by Bell's Brewery

Oberon is a programming language created in 1986 by Professor Niklaus Wirth ( creator of the Pascal, Modula, and Modula-2 programming languages ) and his associates at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

Oberon-07, defined by Niklaus Wirth in 2007 and revised in 2011, is based on the original version of Oberon rather than Oberon-2.

A further extension of Oberon-2 produced Component Pascal, currently supported by Oberon Microsystems, a commercial company spun off from ETHZ, and by Queensland University of Technology.

Homage has been paid to Weber by 20th century composers such as Debussy, Stravinsky, Mahler ( who completed Weber's unfinished comic opera Die drei Pintos and made revisions of Euryanthe and Oberon ) and Hindemith ( composer of the popular Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber ).

Mount Oberon affords beautiful views that are only mildly marred by a radio aerial close by.

Puck is Oberon's servant sent by Oberon, who is angry with Titania the fairy queen because he could not have the indian boy / slave, so Puck is sent to fetch the flower that has been hit by cupid's arrows.

Puck is then instructed by Oberon to use the love juice to fix the love entanglement occurring between the Athenian lovers who also happen to be running about in the forest.

) Later, Puck is ordered by Oberon to fix the mistake he ( Puck ) made, by producing a dark fog, leading the lovers astray within it by imitating their voices, and then applying the flower to Lysander's eyes, which will cause him to fall back in love with Hermia.

A 1611 date is suggested by an apparent connection with Ben Jonson's Masque of Oberon, performed at Court 1 January 1611, in which appears a dance of ten or twelve satyrs ; The Winter's Tale includes a dance of twelve satyrs, and the servant announcing their entry says " one three of them, by their own report, sir, hath danc'd before the King.

After extensive performances at the coronation of Leopold II in Frankfurt in 1791, it was much performed in Europe until replaced by Weber's opera Oberon.

Oberon first performed with the Calcutta Amateur Dramatic Society.

* Carl Maria von Weber Oberon, King of the Fairies ( first performed in London, libretto by James Robinson Planche ).

Leyshon's stage plays include The Farm, published by Oberon, performed at Southwark Playhouse, London ( 2002 ).

Other roles which he performed at Salzburg between 1933 and 1939 were Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Huon in Oberon and Florestan in Fidelio.

In July 1863 the company performed Weber's Oberon with Reeves, Tietjens, Alboni and Alessandro Bettini.

He performed with the Canadian Players, at the Manitoba Theatre Centre, the Vancouver Playhouse and the Stratford Festival, where he played such roles as ' Oberon ' in A Midsummer Night's Dream and ' Aramis ' in The Three Musketeers.

* Oberon ( which was never performed )

Emmanuel Pahud and Camerata Serbica: Rehearsal of Oberon Concerto in Kammermusiksaal der Berliner Philharmoniker Erić's music has been performed widely across the world at major festivals and venues including Prague Spring International Music Festival, City of London Festival, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Ohrid Summer Festival, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts ( ISEA 94 ), BEMUS, ISCM World Music Days, Barbican Hall, Cankarjev dom ( Ljubljana ), Rector's Palace Atrium ( Dubrovnik ), Konserthuset ( Stockholm ), Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall ( Zagreb ), Kammermusiksaal der Berliner Philharmoniker, Church of St. Sophia ( Ohrid ), Wigmore Hall, De Ijsbreker, Sibelius Academy Chamber Music Hall ( Helsinki ), etc.