Shakespeare's Flora & Fauna

by Trafalgar Square

Shakespeare was a lover of nature in all its forms, having gleaned his knowledge first hand as a youth in the Warwickshire countryside. This eloquent little tome is filled with selections of the floral and animal imagery from Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies, plays, sonnets, and poems. Whether the fleet English deer that run through Henry V or Oberon's "bank where the wild thyme blows," Shakespeare's plants and animals symbolize yearning, mischief, joy, rage, malice, triumph, passion, unrequited love. Enlivened with illustrations from an early Tudor pattern book, Shakespeare's Flora and Fauna is a pleasure to leaf through or to give as a gift.

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Cameron Toney]

A sweet little book. It's gorgeously illustrated, and full of quotes about flora and fauna from the works of Shakespeare. I did wish that we would get a little more information about the animals and plants referenced- symbolism, cultural understanding, etc.
But all in all it's a nice little volume.

[Samantha Penrose]

I seemed to favor flora over fauna....