Shakespeare's Animals

by Jenny De Gex

Book Overview

Bears, dogs, foxes, goats, greyhounds, harts, stags, toads - are the many animal characteristics with which Shakespeare imbues his characters. This gift book contains selections of animal imagery from Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, history plays and poetry. A general introduction places the animals in the context of mythological beliefs and everyday life in 16th-century England. The illustrations are taken from an early Tudor pattern book housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857935713
• ISBN13: 9781857935714
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.