A seventeenth century glass urine flask
STRST : SBT 2013-1/7
1601-1700
glass
1950 mm
60 mm (body)
80 mm (lip)130 mm (body)
CC-BY-NC-ND Image Courtesy of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Shakespeare Connected - ‘The natural gates and alleys of the body’ (Hamlet, 1.5.67): Physicality, Hygiene and Bodily Waste in Shakespeare’s World
A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Peter J Smith, Nottingham Trent University.
Boils, Plague Sores and Embossed Carbunkles
Health and Wellbeing in Shakespeare's Time