Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare's England

Introduction: theatre, nostalgia and the reformation of plants; Part I. Plants: Monarchs, signatures and the recuperation of the 'common': 1. Trees, kings, Christ: almanacs, ballads and the divinity of matter in Richard II; 2. Pansies, queens, midwives: fairy flowers, travellers' tales and domestic practice in a midsummer night's dream; Part II. Places: Domestic and civic: negotiating botanical cultures in the theatre: 3. The theatre as medical marketplace: poison, desire and cultures of diagnosis: Romeo and Juliet; 4. The theatre as bower: botanical tapestries, the passion of Christ and the book of nature in Cymbeline; Conclusion: the mulberry tree; Index.

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• Botânica e ciências das plantas
• Estudos e crítica shakespeareana
• Estudos literários: geral