COMPOSING A SHAKESPEARE GARDEN: A literary genius, Shakespeare was also an expert on herbs. Use the Bard's famous words as your muse in the garden

摘要

Read any of William Shakespeare's works, and you're bound to come across scenes set in mysterious forests and luscious gardens, with innumerable references to symbolic plants. The famous writer threaded herbs throughout his plays and sonnets like a seamstress embroiders a tapestry. The garden was, indeed, the backbone of the home in Shakespeare's time, and the Elizabethans of his day embraced the plants, trees, and flowers around them, attaching a deeper meaning to each, and using them often as a language to communicate with lovers and friends. Through his creative eye, Shakespeare saw yet another use for these favored plants: as imagery to strengthen his prose.