Shakespeare's Flowers

by Jessica Kerr

Book Overview

Perdita welcomes guests with rosemary and rue for grace and remembrance; Ariel hides in a cowslip’s bell. There is magic in the "little western flower" Oberon uses to cast a spell on Titania, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0690731639
• ISBN13: 9780690731637
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Crowell
• Length: 85 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Much More than Another Book on Flowers

If you love gardening and flowers and if you enjoy the beautiful prose of Shakespeare, then you'll love this little book! The colorful botanical illustrations are exquisite. Three seperate indexes help you weave plants names with their romantic meanings and find phrases and quotations referring to these plants throughout Shakepeare's plays and sonnets. It made the perfect gift to my 22 year old daughter after a poignant performance of Ophelia in Hamlet. She loved it.

scents of shere poetry!

This book has been a great reference for me of all the flowers referred to in Shakespeare's writings. My daughter Rosemary, is playing the lead in "Much Ado About Nothing," her school play this Spring. I wanted to have the flowers available to give the students and teachers involved and now I have the Best ideas. Thank you so much for advertising this book of colors and scents for the imagination!