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Shakespeare in the Garden
Mick Hales
#UA3532
Hardcover, 144 pages; 2006
$35.00
In this lushly illustrated coffee-table book, Mick Hales, photographer of Bas Bleu favorite Gardens Around the World: 365 Days, turns his lens to the gardens and flowers that inspired William Shakespeare. At the bard's childhood home in England and, on this side of "the pond," in New York, Illinois, Alabama, Connecticut, Ontario, and British Columbia, Hales leads readers on an armchair stroll through fourteen "Shakespeare gardens." Each of these sculptured landscapes either is designed in the Elizabethan style or has been created specifically to showcase plants Shakespeare wrote about. More than eighty of those flowers and trees are given individual attention in Hales's accompanying "illustrated alphabet of plants," via full-color photos and snippets of verse from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. One doesn't need a green thumb to appreciate the innate beauty--both natural and literary--of Shakespeare in the Garden.
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