Titania refuses to leave the stage during the opening night of A Midsummers Night's Dream. As a result, armed police tie her up in quarantine tape and carry her off the stage. As she leaves the theatre, wrapped in tape, she whispers under her breath her famous soliloquy from Act 2...
"That rheumatic diseases do abound. And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter change Their wonted liveries, and the mazèd world, By their increase, now knows not which is which. And this same progeny of evils comes From our debate, from our dissension. We are their parents and original."
Digital painting, Anna Louise Simpson Words (in quotes), William Shakespeare
