A Shakespearean Botanical

by Margaret Willes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851244379
• ISBN13: 9781851244379
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Bodleian Library
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 3.5" x 8.7"