Seona Anderson 20/12/2023 Seona Anderson 20/12/2023

TROUT

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, TROUT: Close, in the name of jesting! Lie thou for here comes the trout that must be caught by tickling. Read more about these remarkable fish.

Seona Anderson 19/12/2023 Seona Anderson 19/12/2023

DORMOUSE

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, DORMOUSE: she did show favour to the youth in your sight, only to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour. Read more about this sleepy little mammal which is under threat in Britain.

Seona Anderson 18/12/2023 Seona Anderson 18/12/2023

SILK WORM

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, SILK MOTH: marry not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack. The Silk Worm or Moth has provided luxury fibers for thousands of years - read more about this fascinating insect.

Seona Anderson 17/12/2023 Seona Anderson 17/12/2023

CIVET

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, CIVET: Civet is of a baser birth than tar, the very uncleanly flux of a cat. Read more about the Civet and its use in perfume.

Seona Anderson 16/12/2023 Seona Anderson 16/12/2023

GRAPES

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, GRAPES: who would for one sweet grape the vine destroy? Read more about grapes, wine and the ecology of vines in Shakespeare’s England and modern Britain.

Seona Anderson 15/12/2023 Seona Anderson 15/12/2023

YEAST

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, YEAST: and anon swallowed with yeast and froth, as you’d thrust a cork into a hogshead. Read more about this tiny but essential fungus which provides us with breads, beers and wines.

Seona Anderson 14/12/2023 Seona Anderson 14/12/2023

CAMEL

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, CAMEL: “it is as hard to come as for a camel to thread the postern of a small needle’s eye”. Read this short blog to find out about Camels in Shakespeare and in the modern world.

Seona Anderson 13/12/2023 Seona Anderson 13/12/2023

Cork Oak

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, CORK: I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings. Read this short blog about the Cork Oak and the importance of the Dehesa of Spain, Portugal and the Mediterranean.

Seona Anderson 12/12/2023 Seona Anderson 12/12/2023

ERYNGOES (Sea Holly)

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, ERYNGO: hail kissing-comfits, and snow eryngoes; let there come a tempest of provocation. Read more to find out about the aphrodisiac plant of the sea shore.

Seona Anderson 11/12/2023 Seona Anderson 11/12/2023

DATES

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, DATES: your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek. Dates were used in a range of sweet and savoury foods in Shakespeare’s work and also for punning. Read more about the ecology and history of dates.

Seona Anderson 10/12/2023 Seona Anderson 10/12/2023

ORANGE

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, ORANGE: You wear out a good forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a forset-seller. Read more about the ecology of Oranges and their place in Elizabethan England.

Seona Anderson 09/12/2023 Seona Anderson 09/12/2023

FIG

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, FIG: O, excellent! I love long life more than figs. Read this short blog about the ecology and use of Figs in Shakespeare.

Seona Anderson 08/12/2023 Seona Anderson 08/12/2023

Hedgehog

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, HEDGEHOG: then like hedgehogs, which lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount their pricks at my footfall. Hedgehogs are a familiar species of city and countryside in Britain but their numbers have been declining recently.

Seona Anderson 07/12/2023 Seona Anderson 07/12/2023

WOLF

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, WOLF: He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath. Read about the place of wolves in Shakespeare’s work and modern conservation/reintroductions of wolves.