It came from the juice of a flower called "love-in-idleness" that had turned from white to purple when Cupid hit it by accident with his arrow.
From Act II, Scene 1:
That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,
Flying between the cold moon and the earth,
Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took
At a fair vestal throned by the west,
And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow,
As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts;
But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft
Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon,
And the imperial votaress passed on,
In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once:
The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Fetch me this herb; and be thou here again
Ere the leviathan can swim a league.
The "fair vestal throned by the west" is an allusion to the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I.
Love-in-idleness has been identified with the heartsease (also called wild pansy) and with Love-in-a-Mist.
The donkey ears come close.
Oberon and Titania come from Midsummer Nights Dream. Ariel and Miranda come from The Tempest. Umbriel does not come from Shakespeare at all, but from Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock. All of them except Miranda are fairies or spirits.
The quote "O me! You juggler! You cankerblossom! You thief of love! What have you come by night And stoln my loves heart from him" is said by the character Hermia in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The donkey ears come close.
The quote "What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?" comes from the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare. It is spoken by the character Titania, the Queen of the Fairies, when she awakens from a love potion-induced slumber.
It does take place throughout mid-summer, but Midsummer Night's Eve is when all the fairies are believed to come out and "play". Playing tricks on people walking through the woods, some haunting passing travelers, a night for them to have fun. So it is based then so the use of the fairies can be used with no questioning in that time.
Shakespear wrote the play so it is indeed no true but instead a play
Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is set in ancient Athens, as indicated by references to Greek mythology and the mythical figures in the play. The exact year is not specified, as the story is more focused on the themes of love, magic, and chaos.
The first Tallulah Casey book is Withering Tights, the second one is A Midsummer Tights Dream, and the next one will be coming out February 2013
Marley says that they will come on successive nights at midnight. However, they come one after another in one big dream/vision that takes place the night of Christmas Eve.
when lysander falls in love with helena
The royals are in the wood because they are having a ceremonial hunt before they get married. while they are hunting, they happen to come upon the 4 lovers ( Lysander, Hermia, Helena, Demetrius.)