Contents

pp 5-6

List of Figures

pp 7-8

Acknowledgments

pp 9-10

Introduction

pp 11-40

Part 1 - Plant Power and Agency

pp 41-42

1 - Vegetable Virtues

pp 43-62

2 - The “idle weeds that grow in the sustaining corn” : generating plants in king lear

pp 63-86

3 - Botanical Barbary : Punning, Race, and Plant Life in Othello 4.3

pp 87-102

Part 2 - Human-Vegetable Affinities and Transformations

pp 103-104

4 - Shakespeare’s Botanical Grace

pp 105-126

5 - “Circummured” Plants and Women in Measure for Measure

pp 127-148

6 - Cymbeline’s Plant People

pp 149-170

7 - ‘Thou art translated’ : Plants of Passage in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

pp 171-190

Part 3 - Plants and Temporalities

pp 191-192

8 - Clockwork Plants and Shakespeare’s Overlapping Notions of Time

pp 193-218

9 - The Verdant Imagination in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

pp 219-242

10 - The Botanical Revisions of 3 Henry VI

pp 243-266

11 - Botanomorphism and Temporality : Imagining Humans as Plants in Two Shakespeare Plays

pp 267-284

Afterword

pp 285-294

Index

pp 295-302