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Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden: A Posy from the Plays

Chapter 1: FLOWERS FROM SHAKESPEARE’S GARDEN: Pictured by Walter Crane
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This illustrated volume gathers floral passages and stage directions from a major playwright's dramas and arranges them into a themed posy. Short excerpts underscore mentions of roses, violets, primroses, marigolds and other plants, linking them to memory, love, seasonality and mood. Each selection is accompanied by decorative plates from a late Victorian illustrator and brief notes identifying the species and its dramatic placement. The arrangement highlights recurrent symbolic and sensory roles for flowers across comic, pastoral and tragic scenes, offering a lyrical miscellany of botanical imagery rather than a formal critical commentary.

FLOWERS FROM
SHAKESPEARE’S
GARDEN:
Pictured by
Walter Crane

Cassell & Compy: Ltd