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A Shakespearean Botanical
Buch von Margaret Willes
Sprache: Englisch

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When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he highlights the 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, knowing that the fragrant fruit was connected with weddings and fertility. Shakespeare's contemporaries would have been familiar with such ripe symbolism in part due to herbals, tomes filled with detailed botanical descriptions consulted to deepen knowledge of the plants of the day. A Shakespearean Botanical follows in the tradition of the medieval and Renaissance herbal, touring the Bard's remarkable knowledge of the fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers of Tudor and Jacobean England through fifty quotations from his plays and verse poems. Each of the entries is beautifully illustrated with hand-colored renderings from the work of Shakespeare's contemporary, herbalist John Gerard, making an appropriate pairing with his writing, along with a brief text setting the quotation within the context of the medicine, cooking, and gardening of the time. The book's many beautifully reproduced images are a pleasure to look at, and Margaret Willes's well-chosen quotations and expert knowledge of Shakespeare's England provide readers with a fascinating insight into daily life. The book will make an inspiring addition to the Shakespeare lover's bookshelf, as well as capitvate anyone with a passion for plants or botanical art.
When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he highlights the 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, knowing that the fragrant fruit was connected with weddings and fertility. Shakespeare's contemporaries would have been familiar with such ripe symbolism in part due to herbals, tomes filled with detailed botanical descriptions consulted to deepen knowledge of the plants of the day. A Shakespearean Botanical follows in the tradition of the medieval and Renaissance herbal, touring the Bard's remarkable knowledge of the fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers of Tudor and Jacobean England through fifty quotations from his plays and verse poems. Each of the entries is beautifully illustrated with hand-colored renderings from the work of Shakespeare's contemporary, herbalist John Gerard, making an appropriate pairing with his writing, along with a brief text setting the quotation within the context of the medicine, cooking, and gardening of the time. The book's many beautifully reproduced images are a pleasure to look at, and Margaret Willes's well-chosen quotations and expert knowledge of Shakespeare's England provide readers with a fascinating insight into daily life. The book will make an inspiring addition to the Shakespeare lover's bookshelf, as well as capitvate anyone with a passion for plants or botanical art.
Über den Autor

Margaret Willes was a reader in modern history and architectural history at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She later worked as a publisher at the National Trust, where she established the Trust's own imprint in social history, architecture, gardening, archaeology, natural history, and cookery, in addition to guidebooks to the individual properties of the Trust.

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781851244379
ISBN-10: 1851244379
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Willes, Margaret
Hersteller: Bodleian Library
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 193 x 123 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Margaret Willes
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.12.2015
Gewicht: 0,393 kg
Artikel-ID: 104718722
Über den Autor

Margaret Willes was a reader in modern history and architectural history at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She later worked as a publisher at the National Trust, where she established the Trust's own imprint in social history, architecture, gardening, archaeology, natural history, and cookery, in addition to guidebooks to the individual properties of the Trust.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781851244379
ISBN-10: 1851244379
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Willes, Margaret
Hersteller: Bodleian Library
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 193 x 123 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Margaret Willes
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.12.2015
Gewicht: 0,393 kg
Artikel-ID: 104718722
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