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  • Chapter 2 - Pansies, Queens, Midwives

  • from Part I - Plants
  • Bonnie Lander Johnson, Newnham College, Cambridge
  • Book:
    Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare's England
    Published online:
    02 January 2025
    Print publication:
    09 January 2025, pp 58-102

  • Summary

    This chapter reads A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the context of Elizabethan botanical privateering, the trade in printed herbals, and Elizabeth I’s personal association with the pansy. It argues that privateering was an advetnure for people of all social groups through which national and civic identity was worked out in botanical terms. It looks especially at the botanically-adorned baby in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the context of early modern naval trade, national competition and the illicit movement of children.