Botanical culture and popular belief in Shakespeare's England / Bonnie Lander Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lander, Bonnie, 1977- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Botany in literature.

Authors and readers--History.

Authors and readers.

Literature and society--England--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

Literature and society--England--History--17th century.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

vii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Addressing an imbalance in early modern studies, Bonnie Lander Johnson reveals how, through interest in popular plant cultures and beliefs - tree ballads, embroidery, pedagogical tales, almanacs - Shakespeare put illiterate culture in contact with questions usually deemed learned and elite: theology, politics, the military and medicine"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: theatre, nostalgia and the Reformation of plants

Part 1. Plants, monarchs, signatures and the recuperation of the 'common'. Trees, kings, Christ: almanaces, ballads and the divinity of matter in Richard II

Pansies, queens, midwives: fairy flowers, travellers' tales and domestic practice in A midsummer night's dream

Part 2. Places domestic and civic: negotiating botanical cultures in the theatre. The theatre as medical marketplace: poison, desire and cultures of diagnosis: Romeo and Juliet

The theatre as Bower: botanical tapestries, the passion of Christand the book of nature in Cymbeline

Conclusion: The mulberry tree.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lander, Bonnie,1977- Botanical culture and popular belief in Shakespeare's England

ISBN:

9781009396523

1009396528

9781009396554

1009396552

OCLC:

1420043494