List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction (Susan C. Staub) Part 1: Plant Power and Agency 1."Vegetable Virtues" (Rebecca Bushnell) 2."The 'idle weeds that grow in the sustaining corn': Generating Plants in King Lear" (Susan C. Staub) 3."Botanical Barbary: Punning, Race, and Plant Life in Othello 4.3" (Hillary M. Nunn) Part 2: Human-Vegetable Affinities and Transformations 1.

"Shakespeare's Botanical Grace" (Rebecca Totaro) 2."'Circummured' Plants and Women in Measure for Measure" Claire Duncan) 3."Cymbeline's Plant People" (Jeffrey Theis) 4."'Thou art translated': Plants of Passage in A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Lisa Hopkins) Part 3: Plants and Temporalities 1."Clockwork Plants and Shakespeare's Overlapping Notions of Time" (Miranda Wilson) 2."The Verdant Imagination in Shakespeare's Sonnets" (Elizabeth D. Gruber) 3."The Botanical Revisions of 3 Henry " (Jason Hogue) 4.

"Botanomorphism and Temporality: Imagining Humans as Plants in Two Shakespeare Plays" (Elizabeth Crachiolo) Afterword (Vin Nardizzi) Index.