Article 61GC6 A new Shakespeare plot: garden of Bard’s daughter to be recreated

A new Shakespeare plot: garden of Bard’s daughter to be recreated

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Dalya Alberge
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Remedies used by healer Susanna Hall and her doctor husband will be planted at Stratford home

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia offers rosemary to boost memory, while in A Midsummer Night's Dream Puck pours the juice of love-in-idleness" on to the sleeping eyelids of Titania, making her madly dote" on Bottom wearing an ass's head.

The magical power of herbs and flowers that Shakespeare recognised is now inspiring the recreation of a 17th-century herbal garden in the historic 1613 house that his daughter Susanna shared with her husband, John Hall, a physician who is believed to have advised his father-in-law on medical ailments.

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