Seona Anderson 31/05/2024 Seona Anderson 31/05/2024

LION

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, LION: I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion. Lions appear in over a hundred Shakespearean references as a symbol of strength and nobility.

Seona Anderson 21/04/2024 Seona Anderson 21/04/2024

WEASEL

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, WEASEL: I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel suck eggs. Weasel’s the smallest carnivore in the UK gets a bad press in Shakespeare.

Seona Anderson 16/04/2024 Seona Anderson 16/04/2024

FOX

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, FOX: for treason is trusted like a fox, never so tame, so cherished and locked up, will have a wild trick of his ancestors. Foxes epitomise cunning and deceit for Shakespeare.

Seona Anderson 06/04/2024 Seona Anderson 06/04/2024

Hyrcanian Beast

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, Hyrcanian Beast: The rugged Pyrrhus, like th’ Hyrcanian beast. There Tigers were the symbol of merciless killers for Shakespeare, however humans hunted the Caspian Tiger to extinction in the 1970s.