A Shakespearean Botanical by Margaret Willes

A Shakespearean Botanical

Margaret Willes

128 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history nature informative lighthearted medium-paced
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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 ...

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