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The birds of Shakespeare

Chapter 7: Index.
By Archibald Geikie
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The author offers a literary-naturalist study of Shakespeare's use of bird imagery, surveying frequent bird references across plays and poems, identifying species and examining their symbolic, descriptive, and metaphorical roles. Drawing on personal observation, literary sources, and popular lore, the text considers how bird song, habits, and characters enrich similes and characterisation, contrasts Elizabethan poetic attitudes with earlier and later writers, and supplies species notes and illustrations to support readings. The work blends ornithology and criticism to show the range and accuracy of avian detail in Shakespeare's language.

Index.

  • Arden, Forest of, 14, 16, 18.
  • As You Like It, scenery of, 13.
  • Autumn and Bird-life, 24.
  • Birds, varied attractions of, 1;
  • modes of capture of, 9-12;
  • at different seasons, 23;
  • list of Shakespeare’s, 28;
  • of prey, 30;
  • of the Crow family, 69;
  • of the Farmyard, 81.
  • Blackbird, 96.
  • Bunting, 99.
  • Buzzard, 42.
  • Chaucer, his love of Nature, 2;
  • his delight in birds, 3, 4;
  • on the Nightingale, 5;
  • on the Eagle, 31;
  • on the Falcon, 39;
  • on the Kite, 43;
  • on the Owl, 58;
  • on the Lapwing, 67;
  • on the Chough, 76;
  • on the Magpie, 79;
  • on the Cock, 81;
  • on the Swan, 86;
  • on the Peacock, 89;
  • on the Turtle-dove, 92;
  • on the Swallow, 103.
  • Chough, 74.
  • Cock, 81.
  • Cormorant, 51.
  • Crows, 33, 72, 94.
  • Cuckoo, 60, 93, 113.
  • Dabchick or Dive-dapper, 68.
  • Daws, 38, 78.
  • Deer-hunting, 18.
  • Doves, 90.
  • Duck, wild, 68.
  • Eagle, 30.
  • Estridge, 50.
  • Falcon, 39.
  • Falconer, Hereditary Grand, 41, note.
  • Falconry, 36-39.
  • Finch, 93.
  • Flies, 20.
  • Game-birds, 63.
  • Goose, 83.
  • Grebes, 58, 68.
  • Hare-coursing, 20.
  • Hawks and Hawking, 36, 39.
  • Hedge-Sparrow, 101.
  • House-Martin, 104.
  • House-Sparrow, 101.
  • Jackdaw, 78.
  • Jay, 80.
  • Keats’ “Ode to the Nightingale,” 113.
  • Kestrel, 40.
  • Kite, 42.
  • Lapwing, 67.
  • Lark, 93, 94, 113.
  • Loon or Lown, 52.
  • Mallard, 68.
  • Magpie, 79.
  • Martlet, 104.
  • Mews, origin of, 41, note.
  • Nature, contrasts in, 26.
  • Newton, Prof., cited, 42.
  • Night and its birds, 56, 95.
  • Nightingale, 95, 106, 113.
  • Osprey, 46.
  • Ostrich, 50.
  • Ousel, 93, 96.
  • Owl, 54.
  • Papingo, in Archery, 50.
  • Parrot, 48.
  • Partridge, 65.
  • Peacock, 89.
  • Pelican, 51.
  • Peregrine Falcon, 40.
  • Pheasant, 64.
  • Philomela or Nightingale, 106.
  • Pigeon, 90, 92.
  • Popinjay, 49.
  • Quail, 66.
  • Raven, 69.
  • Redbreast, 100.
  • Rook, 72.
  • Ruddock, 100.
  • Shakespeare’s youthful surroundings, 6;
  • his sports, 7, 8, 9;
  • his sympathy with living creatures, 7.
  • Shelley’s “Ode to the Skylark,” 113.
  • Snipe, 66.
  • Sparrow-hawk, 41.
  • Spring and birds, 24.
  • Starling, 78.
  • Summer, birds in, 23.
  • Swallow, 103.
  • Swan, 85.
  • Thrush or Throstle, 93, 97.
  • Turkey-cock, 88.
  • Turtle-dove, 91.
  • Vulture, 46.
  • Wagtail, 99.
  • Wild-duck, 68.
  • Wild-goose, 83.
  • Winter, birds in, 25.
  • Woodcock, 63.
  • Wordsworth’s “Ode to the Cuckoo,” 113.
  • Wren, 93, 98.

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