Shakespeare's Plants and Gardens: A Dictionary

Shakespeare lived when knowledge of plants and their uses was a given, but also at a time of unique interest in plants and gardens. His lifetime saw the beginning of scientific interest in plants, the first large-scale plant introductions from outside the country since Roman times, and the beginning of gardening as a leisure activity. Shakespeare''s works show that he engaged with this new world to illuminate so many facets of his plays and poems. This dictionary offers a complete companion to Shakespeare''s references to landscape, plants and gardens, including both formal and rural settings. It covers plants and flowers, gardening terms, and the activities that Shakespeare included within both cultivated and uncultivated landscapes as well as encompassing garden imagery in relation to politics, the state and personal lives. Each alphabetical entry offers a definition and overview of the term discussed in its historical context, followed by a guided tour of its use in Shakespeare''s works and finally an extensive bibliography, including primary and secondary sources, books and articles.>

About the author

Dr. Vivian Thomas followed a career in economics with post-graduate study in Renaissance Drama at New College, Oxford, before becoming lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He has been Visiting Lecturer at the New University of Lisbon, the universities of Cologne, Gdansk and Valenciennes, and Phillips Exeter Academy, New England. Now a free-lance lecturer he has lectured for the University of Warwick, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Sovereign Education. A specialist in Shakespeare Studies, he is the Academic Patron of the Open University Shakespeare Society.Nicki Faircloth is a freelance lecturer and writer based in London.

Product details

• Authors: Nicki Faircloth, Nicki Thomas Faircloth, Faircloth Nicki, Vivian Thomas, Vivian (University of Warwick and the Shak Thomas, Thomas Vivian
• Assisted by: Sandra Clark (Editor)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781474273879
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-7387-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries; Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean