FLOWERS FROM
SHAKESPEARE’S GARDEN:
a Posy from the Plays, pictured by Walter Crane
Cassell & Co: Ltd 1909
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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.
Cassell & Co: Ltd 1909