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Margaret Willes A Shakespearean Botanical (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Shakespearean Botanical
- Publication Name
- A Shakespearean Botanical
- Title
- A Shakespearean Botanical
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 1851244379
- EAN
- 9781851244379
- ISBN
- 9781851244379
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library
- Genre
- Art, Drama, Literary Criticism, Science
- Topic
- Life Sciences / Botany, Shakespeare, Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals
- Release Date
- 02/10/2015
- Release Year
- 2015
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 7.5in
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Item Width
- 8.4in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighting the late sixteenth-century belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from the Americas, was an aphrodisiac. In Romeo and Juliet, Lady Capulet calls for quinces to make pies for the marriage feast of her daughter. This fruit was traditionally connected with weddings and fertility, as echoed by John Gerard in his herbal where he also explained that eating quinces would 'bring forth wise children, and of good understanding'. Taking fifty quotations centring on flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables, Margaret Willes gives these botanical references their social context to provide an intriguing and original focus on daily life in Tudor and Jacobean England, looking in particular at medicine, cookery, gardening and folklore traditions. Exquisitely illustrated with unique hand-painted engravings from the Bodleian Library's copy of John Gerard's herbal of 1597, this book marries the beauty of Shakespeare's lines with charming contemporary renderings of the plants he described so vividly.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bodleian Library
ISBN-10
1851244379
ISBN-13
9781851244379
eBay Product ID (ePID)
210327069
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shakespearean Botanical
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Botany, Shakespeare, Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Art, Drama, Literary Criticism, Science
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.5in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
8.4in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr3041
Reviews
'An engaging addition to Shakespeare studies ... this book is a treasure, compact, readable and beautifully presented.', We closed Willes's book imagining the Bard tending an allotment in Stratford-upon-Avon, with marigolds--opening 'to adorn the day' ( The Rape of Lucrece ), closing 'with the sun' ( The Winter's Tale )--nodding violets, and thoughtful pansies. A Shakespearean Botanical would make a better Christmas gift . . . than deadly nightshade.
Copyright Date
2015
Dewey Decimal
822.33
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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