Margaret Willes is a former publisher and author of several books including, 'Pick of the Bunch: The Story of Twelve Treasured Flowers', Bodleian Library Publishing (2009) and 'The Making of the English Gardener: Plants, Books and Inspiration 1560-1660', Yale University Press (2011).
When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighting the late sixteenth-century 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 of her daughter. This fruit was traditionally connected with weddings and fertility, as echoed by John Gerard in his herbal where he also explained that eating quinces would 'bring forth wise children, and of good understanding'. Taking fifty quotations centring on flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables, Margaret Willes gives these botanical references their social context to provide an intriguing and original focus on daily life in Tudor and Jacobean England, looking in particular at medicine, cookery, gardening and folklore traditions. Exquisitely illustrated with unique hand-painted engravings from the Bodleian Library's copy of John Gerard's herbal of 1597, this book marries the beauty of Shakespeare's lines with charming contemporary renderings of the plants he described so vividly
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莎翁是歐洲文學的高峰,讀罷本書,我想說:作者呀,你是想告訴我們莎翁是被文學耽誤瞭的植物學傢麼?However,這樣的視角卻能讓我們更好的理解莎翁的文學作品,讀齣那些言外之--美。 隨意感受下吧: 玫瑰花很美,但我們覺得它更美, 因為它吐齣一絲甜蜜的芳香。 ——十四行詩(...
評分莎翁是歐洲文學的高峰,讀罷本書,我想說:作者呀,你是想告訴我們莎翁是被文學耽誤瞭的植物學傢麼?However,這樣的視角卻能讓我們更好的理解莎翁的文學作品,讀齣那些言外之--美。 隨意感受下吧: 玫瑰花很美,但我們覺得它更美, 因為它吐齣一絲甜蜜的芳香。 ——十四行詩(...
評分莎士比亞的作品瞭解的整體比較少,英文的十四行詩看過兩三首就讀不下去瞭,劇本隻看過幾部中文的。莎翁的劇本還是很有趣的,有特彆的語感和風情。對其中的植物,從沒有細究過,但是不解其意帶來的閱讀顆粒感,讓人覺得有淡淡的疏離又很舒適。 這次看到這本書,首先是被它的外觀...
評分莎士比亞的作品瞭解的整體比較少,英文的十四行詩看過兩三首就讀不下去瞭,劇本隻看過幾部中文的。莎翁的劇本還是很有趣的,有特彆的語感和風情。對其中的植物,從沒有細究過,但是不解其意帶來的閱讀顆粒感,讓人覺得有淡淡的疏離又很舒適。 這次看到這本書,首先是被它的外觀...
評分莎翁是歐洲文學的高峰,讀罷本書,我想說:作者呀,你是想告訴我們莎翁是被文學耽誤瞭的植物學傢麼?However,這樣的視角卻能讓我們更好的理解莎翁的文學作品,讀齣那些言外之--美。 隨意感受下吧: 玫瑰花很美,但我們覺得它更美, 因為它吐齣一絲甜蜜的芳香。 ——十四行詩(...
圖書標籤: 植物學 英國 文學 莎士比亞 藝術 隨筆 詩人 詩
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評分18歐淘到的舊書,小小一本愛不釋手,剛好工作上要用,插圖很正統的展現瞭那個時代風格的botanical
評分18歐淘到的舊書,小小一本愛不釋手,剛好工作上要用,插圖很正統的展現瞭那個時代風格的botanical
評分18歐淘到的舊書,小小一本愛不釋手,剛好工作上要用,插圖很正統的展現瞭那個時代風格的botanical
評分18歐淘到的舊書,小小一本愛不釋手,剛好工作上要用,插圖很正統的展現瞭那個時代風格的botanical
A Shakespearean Botanical 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載