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Plants

Flamboyant Plants
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Flamboyant Plants

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Amy Reid

Artistic Research Fellow Amy Reid explores the queer history and meaning of plants using the Folger collection in an audiovisual project.

Five Folger Finds: A bouquet of flowers for spring
Shakespeare and Beyond

Five Folger Finds: A bouquet of flowers for spring

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Esther French

We’ve gathered a bouquet for you of flower illustrations in the Folger collection, ranging from watercolor paintings to hand-colored copperplate engravings. Enjoy these five blooms in celebration of spring.

Eating plants in the early modern world
Shakespeare and Beyond

Eating plants in the early modern world

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Julia Fine

Explore turmeric, cinnamon, mint, and sugar to learn more about plants as food, and what they reveal about the early modern age and today.

The Elizabethan Garden: 11 plants Shakespeare would have known well
Elizabethan Garden
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The Elizabethan Garden: 11 plants Shakespeare would have known well

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Esther French

The text for this blog post is adapted from an article in the Summer 2009 issue of Folger Magazine. Shakespeare, who grew up in a riverside country town and was the grandchild of prosperous farmers, refers with familiarity to an extraordinary number of plants…