The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco
by Eric Burns
The way he writes about the impact of tobacco upon the culture of wit on Shakespearian London and how it affected the Mermaid wits in particular – Johnson, Spenser, and Marlowe – is incredibly lyrical.
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