☆ Midsummer Night [Illustration Friday]

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The first thing that sprung to my mind when I saw this weeks Illustration Friday prompt - besides the fact that we are in the depths of winter here and inspiration was short in coming from that perspective, was Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream'

I never studied this play at school but I went through a phase where I was obsessed with Dead Poet's Society, (O captain, my captain. sigh!), and this play was integral to the book/ film.

So here is my interpretation of Titania, Queen of the faeries.

"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,

Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,

Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,

With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:

There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,

Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;

And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,

Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.."

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