Shakespearean Plant Names
Identifications and Interpretations
Stockholm Studies in English No. XLIII

By Mats Ryden
January 1978
Almgvist & Wiksell
Distributed by Coronet Books Inc.
ISBN: 9122001395                                                                  
117 pages, 6 x 9 1/4"
$33.50 Paper Original

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Synopsis:

"The main purpose of this study is to discuss plant names in Shakespeare's works which offer problems of identification and interpretaion. A treatment of every floral context in Shakespeare is not aimed at." (From the introduction)

Partial Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Aim and Scope
2. Previous Work
3. Shakespeare and Elizabethan Botany
4. Shakespeare's plants

The Plant Names
1. Introductory
2. Some Select Names
3. Two Aspects of the Translations

Conclusion
Bibliography

Literature        


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