SHAKESPEAREAN BOTANICAL (HB)

This book marries 50 Shakespearean quotations centring on flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables with unique hand-painted engravings from the Bodleian Library’s copy of John Gerard’s herbal of 1597. Author 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.