Thinking with Shakespeare: The Language of Flowers
Language of Flowers valentine handout pdf
(Print and fold twice for a quarto card.
What’s a quarto? Sample an unfolded sheet of an 18th century book here.)
Shakespeare and the language of flowers Huntington Library
Rue or Herb of Grace, from John Gerard’s Herbal or General Histories of Plants, London, 1597.
John Everett Millais’s painting of Ophelia at the Tate Gallery in London
Two paintings by John Waterhouse of Ophelia. Information at Victorian Web and John Waterhouse.com
Paintings of Ophelia by the French painter Odilon Redon, famous for his flower paintings and color experiments; influential on Matisse andthe Surrealists. First painting at National Gallery, London
Victor Burgin on his work
cover of After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis by Julia Lupton and Kenneth Reinhard; cover designed by Ellen Luptoon using photograph by Victor Burgin.
Helena Bonham-Carter as Ophelia in Zeffirelli’s film of HAMLET.
Commentary on Zeffirelli film by Frank Kermode
Sweets for the sweet: screen shot from Almodavar’s latest film, Volver.
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