Bonnie Lander Johnson

Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare's England

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Produktbeschreibung

Addressing an imbalance in early modern studies, Bonnie Lander Johnson reveals how, through interest in popular plant cultures and beliefs - tree ballads, embroidery, pedagogical tales, almanacs - Shakespeare put illiterate culture in contact with questions usually deemed learned and elite: theology, politics, the military and medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009396523
• ISBN-10: 1009396528
• Artikelnr.: 70769528

Autorenporträt

Bonnie Lander Johnson is Fellow and Associate Professor at Downing College, Cambridge University. Her academic books include Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Blood Matters (2018) and The Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants (forthcoming). She also writes fiction and non-fiction about early modernity and our changing relationship to the natural world.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: theatre
nostalgia and the reformation of plants; Part I. Plants: Monarchs
signatures and the recuperation of the 'common': 1. Trees
kings
Christ: almanacs
ballads and the divinity of matter in Richard II; 2. Pansies
queens
midwives: fairy flowers
travellers' tales and domestic practice in a midsummer night's dream; Part II. Places: Domestic and civic: negotiating botanical cultures in the theatre: 3. The theatre as medical marketplace: poison
desire and cultures of diagnosis: Romeo and Juliet; 4. The theatre as bower: botanical tapestries
the passion of Christ and the book of nature in Cymbeline; Conclusion: the mulberry tree; Index.