By Jen Munson, HSA Education Chair ‘There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember: and there is pansies. that’s for thoughts.’ (Hamlet 4.5.248) William Shakespeare’s poetic plays are filled with dramatic imagery and references to plants, herbs, trees, vegetables, and other botanicals. Shakespeare’s awareness of the botanical world was near the level of herbalists of […]
HSA Webinar: Hamlet’s Poison: The Mystery of Hebanon & Shakespeare’s Other Deadly Plants — The Herb Society of America Blog
This👆 look like such a good webinar! It’s free for Herb Society of America members and $5 for nonmembers. I am thinking of taking it myself and would love to hear if you tune in too! The only issue I have with the announcement though is where it says that Shakespeare’s herbal knowledge was ‘near the level of herbalists’, because everyone back then had herbal knowledge and Shakespeare would not have used esoteric things in his plays since he wanted them to be widely understood. Maybe she meant his knowledge rivals modern day herbalists…? Even so, that wasn’t unique to him, despite the man being beyond brilliant and the greatest contributor to English in the entire history of the English language, his herbal knowledge was simply on par with the times. Wouldn’t it be amazing if everyone still had this knowledge? I can’t imagine how different that would make our modern world…it’d make it better, that’s for sure.
What are you doing for Halloween this year? Our neighborhood is filled with cute decorations but I don’t think there will be many costumed visitors.
Take care friends! 🎃
Love the sound of this!
Oh this is interesting! If only I had more free time for everything I want to do! 😉 Keep sharing things like this, please! Yes, herbal knowledge grows and grows, unfortunately so much has been lost to most people over time. For those of us that seek it out and are educated in it, we get to share our passion for it, especially with our children, I think. I hope you had a good Halloween! We went on a walk and my little sweetie dressed up as a strawberry. She’s so cute! On our way back from our walk there were people with their social distance “trick or treat” tables, complete with piping to send candy down the shaft at a distance, and sanitizers. People have spirit! What a year!
Oh my gosh, a little strawberry-baby must have been the cutest! I’m so glad you had a festive Halloween! One of my neighbors hung treats on a tree for the trick-or-treaters. It was so sweet how inventive people were.
That’s a neat idea, too!