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Art historian and garden expert Roy Strong pieces together an account of how Shakespeare s rich use of plant imagery has inspired eclectic gardens all around the world and helped pave way for the development of garden conservation and restoration as field of study. Strong spills stories as if seated by a fireplace after a banquet, and his prose layers fine, formal English over the crisp, juicy histories that he s expertly researched. Glossy pages of quotes from Shakespeare s plays and sonnets complement Strong s words, as do illustrations from collections of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

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Sir Roy Strong is an art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer. He has served as director of both the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Strong was knighted in 1982. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Strong has written many books on garden history and Elizabethan and Jacobean history, including The Renaissance Garden in England, also published by Thames & Hudson.

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