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Shakespeare's Botanical Imagination

Shakespeare's Botanical Imagination

Staub, Susan C.

Paperback

Series: Environmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures

Literary CriticismGeneral ArtBritish History

ISBN10: 1041185987
ISBN13: 9781041185987
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2025
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Writing on the cusp of modern botany and during the heyday of English herbals and garden manuals, Shakespeare references at least 180 plants in his works and makes countless allusions to horticultural and botanical practices. Shakespeare's Botanical Imagination moves plants to the foreground of analysis and brings together some of the rich and innovative ways that scholars are expanding the discussion of plants and botany in Shakespeare's writings. The essays gathered here all emphasize the interdependence and entanglement of plants with humans and human life, whether culturally, socially, or materially, and vividly illustrate the fundamental role plants play in human identity. As they attend to the affinities and shared materiality between plants and humans in Shakespeare's works, these essays complicate the comfortable Aristotelian hierarchy of human-animal-plant. And as they do, they often challenge the privileged position of humans in relation to non-human life..

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