# The birds of Shakespeare Author: Geikie, Archibald, 1835-1924 Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73281 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+birds+of+Shakespeare+Geikie&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The attentive reader of Shakespeare’s Poems and Plays can hardly fail to notice the remarkable frequency of the Poet’s allusions to Birds, not merely as a great Choir of songsters, enlivening the woods and fields With their varied music, but as individual creatures, each endowed with its own special characters. Shakespeare has drawn an assemblage of bird-portraits to which, for extent and variety, no equal is to be found in any other great English poet. Making ample use of what he had himself observed about Birds in their native haunts, and combining this personal knowledge with what he could obtain from literature and from popular fancy or superstition, he has employed the material thus... ## Chapters - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-birds-of-shakespeare-73281/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-birds-of-shakespeare-73281/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-birds-of-shakespeare-73281/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-birds-of-shakespeare-73281/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-birds-of-shakespeare-73281/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-birds-of-shakespeare-73281/chapters/6/index.md)