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- Title
'DIAN'S BUD' IN A MIDSUMMER NIGHT DREAM IV.i.72.
- Authors
Otten, Charlotte F.
- Abstract
The article focuses on Dian's Bud in the drama "A Midsummer Night's Dream," by William Shakespeare. Commentators on the "Cupid's Flower" have gone to the later collections of herbal lore to plant. Artemisia, Agnus Castus, antidote to herbals or to identify this. No herbal will supply the identification because "Dian's Bud" is a phrase only found in and probably created by Shakespeare. All of the commentators, are looking for a plant associated with chastity. According to the author looking for a herb that promotes chastity is like following wrong track.
- Subjects
HERBS; CHASTITY; SEXUAL ethics; DRAMA; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; ENGLISH literature
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1988, Vol 35, Issue 4, p466
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/35-4-466a