Love-In-Idleness

Viola tricolor, also known as: Heartsease, Wild Pansy, Love-Lies-Bleeding, Love Idol, Cull Me, Cuddle Me, Call-me-to-you, Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me, Meet-me-in-the-Entry, Kiss-her-in-the-Buttery, Three-Faces-under-a-Hood, Kit-run-in-the-Fields, Godfathers and Godmothers, Stepmother, Herb Trinitatis, Herb Constancy, Pink-eyed-John, Bouncing Bet, Bird’s Eye, Banwort, Banewort, Flower o’ luce, and more…

“Markt I where the bolt of Cupid fell,” says Oberon, the fairy king in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. “It fell upon a little western flower, before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound, and maidens call it love-in-idleness.” Were Oberon to come to Lonely Worm Farm, he would find a sea of these flowers, otherwise known as Viola tricolor, or heartsease. We have enough to make gallons of his merciless love potion. 

In fact, we are hoping that Oberon will come-– along with Puck, Titania, Snug, Bottom, Theseus, Helena, Mustard-Seed and the rest. We will be celebrating the coming of summer with a bonfire and a reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on June 24. If you would like to read a part, please contact me as soon as possible! Choose 3 characters that you would like to play, and I will do my best to see that you get one of them.

Here’s a list to refresh your Shakespearian memories: 
THESEUS, Duke of Athens

EGEUS, father to Hermia

LYSANDER, in love with Hermia

DEMETRIUS, in love with Hermia

PHILOSTRATE, master of the revels to Theseus

QUINCE, a carpenter

SNUG, a joiner

BOTTOM, a weaver

FLUTE, a bellows-maker

SNOUT, a tinker

STARVELING, a tailor

HIPPOLYTA, queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus

HERMIA, daughter to Egeus, in love with Lysander

HELENA, in love with Demetrius

OBERON, king of the fairies

TITANIA, queen of the fairies

PUCK, or Robin Goodfellow

PEAS-BLOSSOM, fairy

COBWEB, fairy

MOTH, fairy

MUSTARD SEED, fairy

PYRAMUS, interlude character performed by the Clowns

THISBE, interlude character performed by the Clowns

WALL, interlude character performed by the Clowns

MOONSHINE, interlude character performed by the Clowns
LION, interlude character performed by the Clowns