Book List

Below is an extensive reading list of books relating to Shakespeare, his use of plants and flowers and how you can create a Shakespeare garden.

Shakespeare Garden Books

Shakespeare's Flowers and Garden

 

 

Shakespeare’s Gardens (1864) Sidney Beisley

Natural History of Shakespeare: Being Selections of Flowers, Fruits and Animals (1877) Bessie Mayou

The Shakespeare Flora (1883) Leo H. Grindon

Folk-Lore of Shakespeare (1883) T. F. T. Dyer

The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare (1884) Henry N. Ellacombe

A History of Gardening in England (1895) Alicia Amherst

Shakespeare's Garden (1903) James Harvey Bloom

Shakespeare's Garden: With Reference To Over A Hundred Plants (1906) Leonard Holmesworthe

Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden (1906) Walter Crane

The Shakespeare Garden (1922) Esther Singleton

Shakespeare's Garden - Stratford Upon Avon - booklet (1922) Ernest Law

Flora and Folk-Lore of Shakespeare (1923) F. G. Savage

Shakespeare's Wild Flowers, Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore (1935) Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us (1935) Caroline Spurgeon

Shakespeare Gardens: Design, Plants, and Flower Lore (1937) Annie B. Carter

America's First Shakespeare Garden - booklet (1938) Edith Hubbart

The Shakespearean Gardens - booklet (1953) Levi Fox

Shakespeare’s Flowers (1973) Jessica Kerr

Flowers and Trees of Tudor England (1972) Clare Putman

World of Shakespeare: Plants (1973) Alan Dent

Shakespearean Plant Names: Identifications and Interpretations (1978) Mats Ryden

The Flowers of Shakespeare (1980) Doris Hunt

Fantastic Garlands: An Anthology of Flowers and Plants from Shakespeare (1982) Lys De Bray

Shakespeare’s Flowers (1987)  James A. Warner and Margaret J. White

A Illustrated Introduction to Shakespeare's Flowers - booklet (1990) Levi Fox

Shakespeare's Flowers (1994) Chronicle Books

Shakespeare's Flora and Fauna (1999) Trafalgar Square Publishing

Shakespeare’s Garden (1999) Nancy Shumaker Pallen

A Shakespearean Botanical (2005) Margaret Willes

Shakespeare in the Garden (2006) Mick Hales

A Gathering of Flowers from Shakespeare (2006) Gerard Brender a Brandis and David Hoeniger

Shakespeare's Medical Language: A Dictionary (2014) Sujata Iyengar

Shakespeare's Nature: From Cultivation to Culture (2014) Charlotte Scott

A Shakespearean Botanical (2015) Margaret Willes

Shakespeare's Plants and Gardens: A Dictionary (2016) Vivian Thomas and Nicki Faircloth

Shakespeare's Gardens (2016) Jackie Bennett

The Quest for Shakespeare's Garden (2017) Roy Strong

Botanical Shakespeare: An Illustrated Compendium of All the Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Trees, Seeds, and Grasses Cited by the World's Greatest Playwright (2017) Gerit Quealy and Sumie Hasegawa Collins



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Flower Folklore and Symbolism



Gerard's Herbal: John Gerard's Historie of Plantes (1597 and 1636 editions)

The Language of Flowers: With Illustrative Poetry (1839) Frederic Shoberl

Plant-Lore, Legends and Lyrics (1884) Richard Folkard

The Language of Flowers (2011) Mandy Kirkby 



Garden Design



Herb Gardens of Delight (1974) Adelma G. Simons

Early English Gardens and Garden Books - booklet (1979) Ellen C. Eyler

Theme Gardens (1982) Barbara Damrosch

Herb Garden Design, chapter "A Shakespeare Garden" (2003) Ethne Clarke and Clive Nichols



Literature and Gardens



Wild Flowers in Literature (1934) Vernon Rendall

A Literary Herbal (1980) Avril Rodway

A Rose by Any Other Name: A Survey of Literary Flora from Shakespeare to Eco (1989) Robert F. Fleissrer

The Complete Language of Flowers: A Treasury in Verse and Prose (1998) Sheila Pickles

Pleasures of the Garden: A Literary Anthology (2014) Christina Hardyment