Name the planet in the solar system which is having satellites named after Shakespearean characters.?
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Uranus has 27 natural satellites (5 primary) given names from the works of both Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. The Shakespeare moons are: Miranda (The Tempest), Ariel (The Tempest), Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream) and Oberon (A Midsummer Night's Dream); the fifth main moon is named after an Alexander Pop character.
Other Shakespeare inspired moons are Cordelia (King Lear), Ophelia (Hamlet), Bianca (The Taming of the Shrew), Cressida (Troilus and Cressida), Desdemona (Othello), Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Portia (The Merchant of Venice), Rosalind (As You Like It), Cupid (Timon of Athens), Perdita (The Winter's Tale), Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Mab (Romeo and Juliet), Francisco (The Tempest), Caliban (The Tempest), Stephano (The Tempest), Trinculo (The Tempest), Sycorax (The Tempest), Margaret (Much Ado About Nothing), Prospero (The Tempest), Setebos (The Tempest), Ferdinand (The Tempest).
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Uranus, but four are named after characters out of Alexander Pope. Shakespearean include Miranda and Caliban from The Tempest, Puck, Titania and Oberon from Midsummer Night's Dream, etc.
Uranus.
It's moons are Titania and Oberon (from Midsummers) and Ariel and Miranda (from The Tempest) - all Shakespeare's characters. And Umbriel is the last one, but it's not named for Shakespeare.
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