• Complain

Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare

Here you can read online Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2017, publisher: Dover Publications, genre: Detective and thriller. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

Henry Nicholson Ellacombe The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare

The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

A very readable and graceful volume. Saturday ReviewEntitled from its worth to a place in every Shakespearian library. Spectator.As accurate as it is delightful. Gardeners Chronicle.Deserves a place on the shelves of both the student of Shakespeare and the lover of plant lore. Journal of BotanyThe fullest and best book on the subject. The Literary WorldFrom Ophelias pansies and Lears crown of weeds to Desdemonas song of the willow and the many botanical references in A Midsummer Nights Dream, the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare abound in allusions to trees, flowers, herbs, and shrubs. This unique book explores a charming intersection of nature and literature, examining every plant mentioned by the playwright.An alphabetical glossary cites each plant, placing the quotation in context and discussing its symbolism. A synopsis of the plants history is followed by practical advice for its cultivation. Dozens of engravings of plants appear throughout the book, in addition to full-page illustrations of Shakespeares garden and other Avon sites. Shakespeare enthusiasts, historians, plant lovers, and gardeners will appreciate this comprehensive botanical survey and identification guide.

Henry Nicholson Ellacombe: author's other books


Who wrote The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

SHAKESPEARES GARDEN Bibliographical Note This Dover edition first - photo 1

SHAKESPEARES GARDEN Bibliographical Note This Dover edition first - photo 2

SHAKESPEARES GARDEN

Bibliographical Note This Dover edition first published in 2017 is an - photo 3

Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1896 by Edward Arnold, London and New York.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson, 18211916, author.

Title: The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare / Henry N. Ellacombe; illustrations by Major E. Bengough Ricketts.

Description: Dover edition. | Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, 2017. | This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1896 by Edward Arnold, London and New York.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016044100| ISBN 9780486813288 | ISBN 0486813282

Subjects: LCSH: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616KnowledgeNatural history. | Plants in literature. | Gardens in literature.

Classification: LCC PR3041 .E5 2017 | DDC 822.3/3dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016044100

Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications

813282012017

www.doverpublications.com

PREFACE

THIS edition differs from the two former Editions by the omission of a few passages, which I now consider unnecessary, and by the omission of the appendices. I have substituted a short notice of the daisy in its proper place; and the appendices on the seasons of Shakespeares Plays, &c., I have omitted as not essential to the work though closely connected with it.

But the chief alteration in this edition consists in the large number of illustrations. For these I am indebted to the skilful pen and liberal help of Major E. Bengough Ricketts, to whom I am glad in this way to offer my warmest thanks.

HENRY N. ELLACOMBE.

Bitton Vicarage, Gloucestershire,

November, 1896.

CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Full Page Plates
Tail-pieces
Illustrations of plants

INTRODUCTION LL the commentators on Shakespeare are agreed upon one point - photo 4

INTRODUCTION LL the commentators on Shakespeare are agreed upon one point - photo 5

INTRODUCTION

LL the commentators on Shakespeare are agreed upon one point that he was the - photo 6 LL the commentators on Shakespeare are agreed upon one point, that he was the most wonderfully many-sided writer that the world has yet seen. Every art and science are more or less noticed by him, so far as they were known in his day; every business and profession are more or less accurately described; and so it has come to pass that, though the main circumstances of his life are pretty well known, yet the students of every art and science, and the members of every business and profession, have delighted to claim him as their fellow-labourer. Books have been written at various times by various writers, which have proved (to the complete satisfaction of the writers) that he was a soldier,

I also propose to claim him as a fellow-labourer. A lover of flowers and gardening myself, I claim Shakespeare as equally a lover of flowers and gardening; and this I propose to prove by showing how, in all his writings, he exhibits his strong love for flowers, and a very fair, though not perhaps a very deep, knowledge of plants; but I do not intend to go further. That he was a lover of plants I shall have no difficulty in showing; but I do not, therefore, believe that he was a professed gardener, and I am quite sure he can in no sense be claimed as a botanist in the scientific sense of the term. His knowledge of plants was simply the knowledge that every man may have who goes through the world with his eyes open to the many beauties of Nature that surround him, and who does not content himself with simply looking, and then passing on, but tries to find out something of the inner meaning of the beauties he sees, and to carry away with him some of the lessons which they were doubtless meant to teach. But Shakespeare was able to go further than this. He had the great gift of being able to describe what he saw in a way that few others have arrived at; he could communicate to others the pleasure that he felt himself, not by long descriptions, but by a few simple words, a few natural touches, and a few well-chosen epithets, which bring the plants and flowers before us in the freshest, and often in a most touching way.

For this reason the study of the Plant-lore of Shakespeare is a very pleasant study, and there are other things which add to this pleasure. One especial pleasure arises from the thoroughly English character of his descriptions. It has often been observed that wherever the scenes of his plays are laid, and whatever foreign characters he introduces, yet they really are all Englishmen of the time of Elizabeth, and the scenes are all drawn from the England of his day. This is certainly and many others which he must have known, but which he has not named; because when he names a plant or flower, he does so not to show his own knowledge, but because the particular flower or plant is wanted in the particular place in which he uses it.

Another point of interest in the Plant-lore of Shakespeare is the wide range of his observation. He gathers flowers for us from all sorts of placesfrom the turfy mountains and the flat meads; from the bosky acres and the unshrubbed down; from rose-banks and hedges even-pleached. But he is equally at home in the gardens of the country gentlemen with their pleached bowers and leafy orchards. Nor is he a stranger to gardens of a much higher pretension, for he will pick us famous Strawberries from the garden of my Lord of Ely in Holborn; he will pick us White and Red Roses from the garden of the Temple; and he will pick us Apricocks from the royal garden of Richard the Seconds sad queen. I propose to follow Shakespeare into these many pleasant spots, and to pick each flower and note each plant which he has thought worthy of notice. I do not propose to make a selection of his plants, for that would not give a proper idea of the extent of his knowledge, but to note every tree, and plant, and flower that he has noted. And as I pick each flower, I shall let Shakespeare first tell us all he has to say about it; in other words, I shall quote every passage in which he names the plant or flower; for here, again, it would not do to make a selection from the passages, my object not being to give floral extracts, but let him say all he can in his own choice words. There is not much difficulty in this, but there is difficulty in determining how much or how little to quote. On the one hand, it often seems cruel to cut short a noble passage in the midst of which some favourite flower is placed; but, on the other hand, to quote at too great a length would extend the book beyond reasonable limits. The rule, therefore, must be to confine the quotations within as small a space as possible, only taking care that the space is not so small as entirely to spoil the beauty of the description. Then, having listened to all that Shakespeare has to say on each flower, I shall follow with illustrations (few and short) from contemporary writers; then with any observations that may present themselves in the identification of Shakespeares plant with their modem representatives, finishing each with anything in the history or modern uses or cultivation of the plant that I think will interest readers.

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare»

Look at similar books to The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare»

Discussion, reviews of the book The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.