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Shakespeare's Flowers BY Jessica Kerr ILLUSTRATED BY Anne Ophelia Dowden Johnson Books BOULDER

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title	:	Shakespeare's Flowers
author	:	Kerr, Jessica.; Dowden, Anne Ophelia Todd
publisher	:	Johnson Books
isbn10 | asin	:	1555662021
print isbn13	:	9781555662028
ebook isbn13	:	9780585001500
language	:	English
subject	Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Knowledge--Botany, Flowers in literature.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	PR3041.K4 1997eb
ddc	:	822.3/3
subject	:	Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Knowledge--Botany, Flowers in literature.

Publication Information All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Published in the United States by Johnson Books, a division of Johnson Publishing Company, 1880 South 57th Court, Boulder, Colorado 80301. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kerr, Jessica. Shakespeare's flowers / by Jessica Kerr: illustrated by Anne Ophelia Dowden. P. cm. Originally published: New York: T Crowell, 1969. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 1-55566-202-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Knowledge-Botany. 2. Flowers in literature. 1. Dowden, Anne Ophelia Todd, 1907- . II. Title. PR304I.K4 1997 822.3'3-DC21 97-22010 CIP Printed in the United States by Johnson Printing 1880 South 57th Court Boulder, Colorado 80301 Printed on recycled paper

This book is dedicated by both author and artist to Gertrude B. Foster, with appreciation and gratitude.

Acknowledgments The author and the artist wish to thank the following for assistance in the preparation of Shakespeare's Flowers: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University; Mrs. Thelma Barton, Kent Memorial Library, Kent, Connecticut; the Bodleian Library, Oxford University; the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, Mr. George Kalmbacher, Mr. Frederick McGourty, Mr. Peter Malins, Miss Jo-Ann Leevers; the College of Arms, London; the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.; Mr. H. Lincoln Foster, Falls Village, Connecticut; Dr. Levi Fox, O.B.E., Director of the Shakespeare BirthplaceTrust, Stratford-upon-Avon; Miss Esther Ann Heubner, the Cloisters Museum, New York City; the Kent School Library, Kent, Connecticut; the Director of Kew Gardens, England; the New Milford Public Library, New Milford, Connecticut; Mrs. Dorothy Stanton of Cornwall, Connecticut, for the generous loanof many books; Mrs. Ella Statham, for cowslips sent from Surrey, England; Mrs. Mildred Van Vlack, Canaan, Connecticut; the Widener Library, Harvard University; the Lord Mayor of York, England. Flora of the British Isles by A. R. Clapham, T. G. Tutin, and E. F. Warburg and The Dictionary of Gardening of the Royal Horticultural Society have been our authorities for botanical details. The quotations from Shakespearefollowthe text of The Yale Shakespeare. JESSICA KERR ANNE OPHELIA DOWDEN

"THE Flowers are Sweet"* Why has this book been written? Perhaps because William Shakespeare was so very much a man of the time in which he lived and because he has described for us so vividly the England of Queen Elizabeth I four hundred years ago. From his plays we can learn about the people and their customs in town or country, the clothes they wore, the food they ate, and the fun and sport they enjoyed. We can read of the courage of soldiers and sailors and explorers, and the men who carried their trade across the sea into strange and distant lands. We can observe the intrigues of the court. Above all, we get a wonderful picture of the English countryside and of the gardens and flowers which are the subject of this book. William Shakespeare grew up as a country boy and never lost his love for flowers. The house where he was born must have had a garden, even if a small one, with an all-important herb garden and, perhaps, an orchard at the back. The market town of Stratford was very small when Shakespeare lived there, and the wide flowery meadows, the woods, and the broad river Avon were only a few minutes' walk from his house in Henley Street. A little farther away were some of the great houses of Warwickshire, with splendid formal gardens, masterpieces of planting and design. These, as well as the famous gardens sloping down to the bank of the river Thames in London, the poet must have seen many a time. Shakespeare liked to use flowers as images to illustrate his ideas about peoplefrom kings and queens, and even whole nations, to the humble "burgesses" of his own townwhat they looked like, their characters, and their actions. He used many other country images, too, such as birds, sports, music, and the seasons of the year. But above all he used flowers and, for the most part, the same wild flowers which still grow in the fields or by the river near his home.

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