Book description
It is a popular jocose remark about Shakespeare that he is "too full of quotations", and surely a name plucked from this catalogue of animals, both real and mythical, would offer an apt quotation, leaping to the mind almost like a mirror reflection. But interests changes, attitudes adjust; what was old to Shakespeare is new to us; and this little book is full of surprises and delights.
You will find references here to every animal mentioned in Shakespeare, in hundreds of quotations, presented in the beguiling narrative of a renowned Shakespearian anti-scholar. There can be no more persuasive guide than Alan Dent as he takes us by the hand to lead us down Shakespeare’s still untrodden ways, and there leaves us to explore for ourselves.
