Shakespeare's Flora & Fauna (ISBN 1862052883)

Book Description:
Shakespeare was a lover of nature in all its forms, having gleaned his knowledge first hand as a youth in the Warwickshire countryside. This eloquent little tome is filled with selections of the floral and animal imagery from Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies, plays, sonnets, and poems. Whether the fleet English deer that run through Henry V or Oberon's "bank where the wild thyme blows," Shakespeare's plants and animals symbolize yearning, mischief, joy, rage, malice, triumph, passion, unrequited love. Enlivened with illustrations from an early Tudor pattern book, Shakespeare's Flora and Fauna is a pleasure to leaf through or to give as a gift.