Shakespeare's World | Forest, Field, and Garden: Landscapes and Economies in Shakespeare's England
Creative artists draw their ideas from the world around them No matter how transmuted, masked, or distorted in a finished work, the assumptions of the age lurk somewhere below the surface, forming a recognizable part of the common inheritance in that period of man's historical development What then can we identify as the common inheritance of attitudes to the natural world that Shakespeare shared with his literate contemporaries? His work abounds with references to the growing cycles of plants, to man's activities in growing plants, and the life of man in the countryside All critics agree...
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