
The most remarked-upon flower in this veritable bouquet is love-in-idleness, a flower that was also called a pansy or heartsease in Shakespeare’s England. Accordingly, the play blossoms with botanical language as its entangled love plots unfold. In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Athenians and fairies alike turn to flowers, plants, and herbs to forge the play’s complex relationships during a delirious night in the forest. Don’t miss Folger Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (July 12 – August 28), on stage at The Playhouse at the National Building Museum. Part One, which published earlier this week, featured an early modern recipe for heartsease cordial. This blog post, exploring heartsease in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is the second in a two-part series. It has been announced that no further tattoos will be rewarded for real life tattoos.Pansies, also known as heartease or love-in-idleness. Lastly, there are extremely rare tattoos, rewarded to individuals due to KoL dedication, many through actually getting a real life tattoo. Martini Tattoo, chance reward for drinking a martini.Pretentious Artist Tattoo, reward for completing the Pretentious Artist quest.Hardcore Class Oxygenarian Ascension (Super Sparkling Tattoos for completing a hardcore ascension in that class)Īnd finally, the tattoos for completing a path in hardcore ascension.Hardcore Class Ascension (Sparkling Class Tattoos for completing a hardcore ascension in that class).As far as ascensions goes, only the first twelve of each type actually reward with tattoos.

One can also obtain many tattoos based on the met specifications of ascension. Outfit Tattoos are unlocked after visiting the Pretentious Artist dressed in the appropriate outfit. Not only will the number of tattoos collected be tabulated as an achievement in your quest log, but you may also display one tattoo on your avatar at any given time, through the options page.Ĭertain tattoos, however, can only be obtained through other means, for example, through certain ascensions - others were granted to those who were just plain special.Ĭlass tattoos are unlocked simply for being the class when completing the Pretentious Artist mini quest. The Pretentious Artist can be found in the Dirt-Walled Hovel of the Pretentious Artist, on the Wrong Side of the Tracks, in Town. You can't expect a Pretentious Artist to draw your portrait in the filth you have on now, can you?

For the artist to consider drawing your image, however, you must wear specific outfits.

After completing the Pretentious Artist mini-quest, the artist will draw your portrait, and give you a nice new tattoo.
