Shakespearean Botanical HB guides to shakespeare by play and celebrates the Bard’s legacy

and celebrates the Bard’s legacy to our literature

is designed to introduce students to Shakespeare's plays

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1 ‘Under the greenwood tree’

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Shakespearean Botanical HB guides to shakespeare by play and celebrates the Bard’s legacyA Shakespearean Botanical 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