‘The sea itself in its varied working tides, waves, currents, storms and calms, never goes out of [Shakespeare’s] work’, as Falconer rather poetically observes. It is true that in every single play – as far away as it may be situated from the sea – there is at least one metaphor or phrase about the …
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The plays provide us with many potions and concoctions with fantastic effects and with sensational medical feats like the reviving of Thaisa with ‘rough and woeful music’ and drug from a ‘vial’19 (Pericles 3.2). A ‘leprous distilment’ made from a ‘juice of hebona’ (Ham 1.5.64, 62) was used to kill old Hamlet, and Laertes intends …
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Shakespeare's Shipwrecks 