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Shakespeare's Gardens Jackie Bennett

Shakespeare's Gardens By Jackie Bennett

Shakespeare's Gardens by Jackie Bennett


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Summary

For the first time, Shakespeare's Gardens brings together brand new photography of the gardens with beautiful archive images of flowers, old herbals, and 16th century illustrations.

Shakespeare's Gardens Summary

Shakespeare's Gardens by Jackie Bennett

Shakespeare's Gardens is a highly illustrated, informative book about the gardens that William Shakespeare knew as a boy and tended as a man, published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of his death in April 2016. This anniversary will be the focus of literary celebration of the life and work throughout the English speaking world and beyond.

The book will focus on the gardens that Shakespeare knew, including the five gardens in Stratford upon Avon in which he gardened and explored. From his birthplace in Henley Street, to his childhood playground at Mary Arden's Farm, to his courting days at Anne Hathaway's Cottage and his final home at New Place - where he created a garden to reflect his fame and wealth. Cared for by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, these gardens are continually evolving to reflect our ongoing knowledge of his life.

The book will also explore the plants that Shakespeare knew and wrote about: their use in his work and the meanings that his audiences would have picked up on - including mulberries, roses, daffodils, pansies, herbs and a host of other flowers. More than four centuries after the playwright lived, whenever we think of thyme, violets or roses, we are reminded of a line from his work.

Shakespeare's Gardens brings together specially commissioned photography of the gardens with beautiful archive images of flowers, old herbals, and 16th century illustrations. It tells the story of Shakespeare's journey - from glove maker's son to national bard - and how he came to know so much about plants, flowers and gardens of the Elizabethan era.

Shakespeare's Gardens Reviews

This will find a wider audience than Shakespeare fans, just as titles such as Marta McDowell's Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life and Kim Wilson's In the Garden with Jane Austen appealed to readers interested in gardening history.


a true celebration and exploration into a central part of [Shakespeare's] family life and private world


brush up your understanding of Elizabethan plants and gardening in this beautifully illustrated tour of Shakespeare's gardens


This will find a wider audience than Shakespeare fans, just as titles such as Marta McDowell's Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life and Kim Wilson's In the Garden with Jane Austen appealed to readers interested in gardening history.

a true celebration and exploration into a central part of [Shakespeare's] family life and private world

brush up your understanding of Elizabethan plants and gardening in this beautifully illustrated tour of Shakespeare's gardens

'the best of coffee table books: as well as looking beautiful it's a fascinating read...it's part biography, part social history, part present-day gardening guide. As Will, fond of a horticultural reference, would have said: Here's flowers for you... '

About Jackie Bennett

Jackie Bennett is a former editor of The Garden Design Journal, the English Garden Magazine and Gardening with the National Trust. She began her career in television, producing gardening and natural history programmes before become a full time writer. In 1990, she won an award for nature writing in the BBC Wildlife Magazine Awards and her books include The Wildlife Garden Month by Month (David & Charles 1990 - reissued in 2011), The Cottage Garden and Wild About the Garden (1997 a Channel 4 tie-in book for the TV series presented by Carol Klein). She won the Garden Writer's Guild Gardening Column of the Year 2009 for a series about her own Norfolk garden. Jackie has studied garden design and landscape history. She runs writing workshops for the Society of Garden Designers and for the Cambridge and Oxford Botanic Gardens.

ANDREW LAWSON is widely regarded as England's leading garden photographer. He has provided the photographs for many books, including Good Planting by Rosemary Verey, Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening, Designing Gardens (9780711217577) by Arabella Lennox Boyd, Little Sparta (9780711220850) by Jessie Sheeler, The Garden at Highgrove by HRH Prince of Wales, and The English Garden (9780711226388)by Ursula Buchan and The New English Garden (9780711232709) also by Tim Richardson. He holds the Royal Horticultural Society's Gold Medal for Photography and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Garden Writer's Guild. His garden in Oxfordshire is open under the National Gardens Scheme.

Table of Contents

Introduction
A biography through gardens; a literary flowering; a picture of Shakespeare

SHAKESPEARE'S WORLD * Tudor Gardens
The royal palaces; Dudley's Kenilworth; patterns woven in silk and thread

THE STRATFORD BOY * Shakespeare's Birthplace
The Shakespeares in town; useful herbs; the making of a Victorian garden

A COUNTRY CHILDHOOD * Mary Arden's Farm
Food and Tudor vegetable growing; farming; the art of husbandry

YOUTH AND ROMANCE * Anne Hathaway's Cottage
The rise of the cottage garden; wild flowers; Ellen Willmott and the Edwardian garden

THE GARDEN VISITOR * Shakespeare in London
The Inns of Court, gardens for pleasure; John Gerard's herbal

IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH * Hall's Croft
The power of plants; medicine, drugs and cures; Doctor Hall and his patients

A MAN OF PROPERTY * New Place Garden
The search for Shakespeare's last home; Nash's House and the Great Garden

Endnotes
Bibliography
Chronology of Shakespeare's works
Visiting details
Index
Acknowledgments

Additional information

GOR012400406
9780711256989
0711256985
Shakespeare's Gardens by Jackie Bennett
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
20210511
192
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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