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All but two of the moons of Uranus have names drawn from Shakespeare's plays. Many of them are taken from The Tempest, and most others are names of young female characters from the other plays.

The two moon names not in Shakespeare are Umbriel and Belinda from Pope's The Rape of the Lock. The name Ariel is in both this and Shakespeare's Tempest. The two largest moons are named for Titania and Oberon, king and queen of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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