The fifth meeting of the series "The Life of Shakespeare's Heroes" is dedicated to the most capricious "royal couple" of world drama - Titania and Oberon. The meeting will be conducted by Vladimir Sergeyevich Makarov and Evgenia Olegovna Gulbis. The hosts will explain where Shakespeare got the images of the fairies, why they received such names, and why their conflict is important for understanding "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The conversation will touch on the theater of the time of Elizabeth I, what gestures, masks, props, and stage conventions were used. Then the discussion will shift to the 20th century and the productions that shaped the modern view of the play. Listeners will learn how interpretations changed, how director Peter Brook influenced the traditional perception of Shakespeare, and how he was interpreted by directors like Dominic Dromgoole, Nicholas Hytner, Erica Wyman, and Eleanor Rod. Guests of the lecture will try to penetrate the secret of Shakespeare: why his "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is so easily transferred to different eras and sounds equally convincing as a comedy of manners, a romantic fantasy, and a psychological drama?