By Jessica Kerr
Perdita welcomes site visitors with rosemary and rue for grace and remembrance; Ariel hides in a cowslip’s bell. there's magic within the "little western flower" Oberon makes use of to solid a spell on Titania, and tragedy in Ophelia’s garland and Lear’s crown of weeds. within the witches’ brews and love potions, as symbols of gallantry or religion, as seasoning in homely English kitchens, or as badges for the wars of kings, plant life and herbs have been an intimate a part of lifestyles in Shakespeare’s day. Their legends upload colour and body spray to his performs and songs. "Shakespeare’s vegetation combines interesting lore and wonderful work through Anne Ophelia Dowden, to recreate the gardens and meadows of Elizabethan England.
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Cowslips never grow wild in the United States, but they can be seen sometimes in gardens where they are known by the scientific name Primula veris. They are first cousins of the primroses and oxlips. Pansy ... and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. -HAMLET * Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness. -A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM* The pansy to which poor Ophelia referred was not the flower we know by that name today.
As a poet he compared them to the lives of men and women, from the springtime of childhood to the winter ("trembling winter" as he calls it) of old age. In this quotation from the play Perdita is talking about midsummermiddle ageand the flowerscarnations and gillyvorswhich bloom in gardens at that time. " Streak'd gillyvors" were flowers of mixed colors developed by gardeners. in appearance they were mottled or variegated with patterns such as we find today in Sweet William or some garden pinks.
Plant-Lore of Shakespeare (Edward Arnold, London, 1896). FELLOWES, E. H. English Madrigal Verse (Oxford University Press, New York, 1919). Fox, LEVI. The Borough Town of Stratford-upon-Avon (Stratford-upon-Avon, 1953). *_____The Shakespearian Gardens (Jarrold & Sons, Norwich, England). GERARDE [or GERARD], JOHN. The Herball or General Historie of Plantes (London, 1636). GRIEVE, MRS. MAUD. A Modern Herbal (Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1931). GRINDON, L. H. Shakespere Flora (Palmer & Howe, Manchester, 1883).