Context: Say it with flowers! The flowers round the bank where Titania sleeps carry interesting and appropriate messages. Wild thyme and oxlips are associated with sleep. Violets, in addition to sleep inducement, should calm temper. Woodbine, or honeysuckle, is said to stand for generous and devoted affection. Muskrose, being white, represents eternal love, secrecy and silence and the musk brings qualities of charms. Eglantine, also called sweet briar, implies perfect happiness. The central flower of the play, 'Love-in-idleness', is the viola tricolour or pansy, a white and purple flower standing for thoughts and love. |