Botanical Shakespeare

And that I love the tree from whence thou sprang’st

Henry VI 3: 5.7.31

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His wonted sleep under a fresh tree’s shade

Henry VI Pt 3: 2.5.49

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Restormel Castle - trees in foreground

There stands the castle, by yon tuft of trees

King Richard II 2.3.53

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Overcome with moss and baleful mistletoe

Titus Andronicus 2.3.95

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Shakespeare was a pioneer of new phrases and as it turns out... 6-7 (or being at sixes and sevens) has been around for quite some time! Even as we see showing up in the canon. Shakespeare is ever relevant!

Does this mean we can bring back 'Zounds? 🤣🙏🏼

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Here, father, take the shadow of this tree

King Lear 5.2.1

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Happy Birthday, Ben Jonson! He’s considered the 2nd most important playwright & poet to Shakespeare. Probably his best known lines are from his preface to Shakespeare’s First Folio of 1623, such as:

“Soule of the Age !
The applause ! delight ! the wonder of our Stage !

Happy B-day, Ben!

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This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme: QUARRELS and CONFLICT

Ye favorites of a king, are we not high?

King Richard II 3.2.88

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“In The Knight’s Tale, Chaucer includes this articulus of twenty-one tree names: ‘As ook, firre, birch, aspe, alder, holm, popler, / Wylugh, elm, plane, assh, box, chasteyn, lynde, laurer, / Mapul, thorn, bech, hasel, ew, whippeltree.’”

See our previous posts for what all the fuss is about! 🌳🌲🌴

Our next Tree List is Chaucerian, from Parliament of Fowls. In this list, he gives us meanings & uses for the trees, something we love especially. It’s not the only time Chaucer takes to listing trees. Check the comments with a h/t to an essay by Ingo Berensmeyer:

Come hear some fascinating speakers tell Tree Stories (do you have one?) -- & how to save them, w a screening of the "blood-boiling" film (The Guardian) The FELLING this Sunday afternoon 2pm @thegardencinema in Covent Garden as a post-season event for the @urbantreefest.

Spenser - like Shakespeare (with a difference 😉) - is part of a storied tradition of poets cataloguing trees (like Chaucer to Ovid to Virgil, & more!) This is Spenser
"preserving" trees in The Faerie Queene.

But some of these ancient trees are in peril. Read on for more…🌳

"You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first; 'tis a word to great for any mouth of this age's size." ~Celia, As You Like It

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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
Comedy of Errors III. i.

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‘The thickest and the tallest’

Love’s Labour’s Lost 4.1.45

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He brings you figs

Antony & Cleopatra 5.2.236

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#OTD 5 Mar 1549

The Bill of Attainder passed against #ThomasSeymour of Sudeley Castle for attempted kidnap of nephew #EdwardVI & plotting to marry Princess Elizabeth

Much liked by his contemporaries, our 21st Cent values label him a cad or was he simply misguided?

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"What is the matter, my lord?"

"Between who?"

"I mean, the matter that you read, my lord."

"Slanders, sir ..."

Hamlet

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Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: READING & WRITING!

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"If this be so, why blame you me to love you?"~ Phebe, As You Like It

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#love

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Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.

H 1.3 #ShakespeareSunday

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"I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say 'I love you:'" - Henry V (A5, S2) #Shakespeare #BardLove #ValentinesDay

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Painfully to pore upon a book
To seek the light of truth.

Love's Labours Lost
Act I Scene 1
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"I can add colors to the chameleon"
~Richard of Gloucester,
3 Henry VI

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Ralph Fiennes plays Richard III: 'I can add colours to the chameleon' YouTube video by Guardian Culture

"Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face to all occasions."
~ Richard of Gloucester, 3 Henry IV

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"Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every
language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. I speak of peace while covert enmity
Under the smile of safety wounds the world" ~Rumor, 2 Henry IV, Prologue

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"The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil?"

The Merchant of Venice
Act 3, Scene 2
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Theme: Truth & Appearances

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"One can smile and smile and be a villain"
~Hamlet, 1.5

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