Book ID: 106707
Willes, Magaret
A Shakespearean Botanical. 2015. illus.(col.). 200 p. 8vo. Hardcover.
Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes believing the exotic vegetable, recently brought back from the Americas, to be an aphrodisiatic. Lady Capulet orders quince pies for Juliets marriage feast with an eye to aiding fertility. This book marries the beauty of Shakespeares lines with exquisite illustrations from John Gerards herbal of 1597, providing an intriguing and original focus on medicine, cookery, folklore and gardening in Tudor and Jacobean England.