“Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, / Sermons in stones, and good in everything.” These words from a famous speech by Duke Senior in As You Like It helped to inspire the Folger Shakespeare Library’s new landscape design and are displayed (above) on a wall near the large, richly planted west garden. Take this quiz to see if you can correctly order the lines of the duke’s speech.
Creating the Folger’s New Landscape
A Touch of Shakespeare in New Folger Spaces
Explore the new landscape and public spaces of the Folger Shakespeare Library to find touches of Shakespeare and the early modern age in which he lived.
A New Poem by Rita Dove Invites Visitors Inside
Rita Dove shares the story behind her new poem, which is inscribed in the marble edge around the Folger’s west garden.
Greeting Visitors with Inviting Outdoor Spaces
Gardens, landscaping, Puck, and poetry
Envisioning the Folger’s Future: Spotlight on Architecture and Design
The architectural vision for the renovation in a conversaton with Director Michael Witmore, architect Stephen Kieran, and landscape architect Anneliza Kaufer.
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