America’s leading gem authority gathers every reference to diamonds, pearls, rubies, sapphires and other stones in Shakespeare’s plays and poems and comments on each. He considers where the poet’s lore came from, how much he knew of mineralogy and gem superstitions, and where the precious stones of Elizabethan England were actually mined and traded.
A delightful byway of Shakespeare study, published in the tercentenary year of 1916, for readers who love gems or the plays. Download the free EPUB.