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A Shakespearean botanical / Margaret Willes.

Title
A Shakespearean botanical / Margaret Willes.
Author
Willes, Margaret
Publication
Oxford : Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
  • Gerard, John, 1545-1612.
  • Bodleian Library issuing body.
Description
200 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 20 cm
Summary
"This book marries the beauty of Shakespeare's lines with exquisite illustrations from John Gerard's herbal of 1597, providing an intriguing and original focus on medicine, cookery, folklore and gardening in Tudor and Jacobean England"--Back cover.
Subject
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Knowledge and learning
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
  • Gerard, John, 1545-1612
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
  • 1600-1699
  • Botany in literature
  • Botany > History > 17th century
  • Medicine in literature
  • Medicine > History > 17th century
  • Plants, Medicinal
  • Medicine in Literature
  • Literature, Modern
  • Drama > history
  • Herbals as Topic > history
  • History, 16th Century
  • History, 17th Century
  • Botanique dans la littérature
  • Plantes médicinales
  • Médecine dans la littérature
  • Médecine > Histoire > 16e siècle
  • Médecine > Histoire > 17e siècle
  • Botany
  • Botany in literature
  • England
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 196) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781851244379
  • 1851244379
OCLC
  • 926097209
  • SCSB-10511423
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library