Viola tricolor
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Viola tricolor is a common European wild flower, growing as an annual or short-lived perennial. The species is also known as wild pansy, Johnny Jump up, heartsease, heart's ease, heart's delight, tick
Violatricolorarvensis
Flowers of Viola tricolor
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On a dry grassland
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare between the years 1594 to 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage o
Viola tricolor
…Shakespeare had in mind was V. tricolor, the wild pansy, not a modern garden pansy.) Shakespeare makes a more direct reference, probably to V. tricolor in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Oberon sends Puck to gather "a little western flower that maidens call love-in-idleness". Oberon's account is that he diverted an arrow from Cupid's…
Titania sleeping in the moonlight protected by her fairies, 19th century painting by John Simmons
Hermia and Helena by Washington Allston, 1818
The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania by Joseph Noel Paton, 1849
A drawing of Puck, Titania and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream from Act III, Scene II by Charles Buchel, 1905