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Elizabethan Garden Tour
April 21–October 20, 2012 10am
Folger Elizabethan Garden
Garden tours are offered at 10am and 11am on the first and third Saturday of each month, April through October.
The Elizabethan Garden is open year-round, Monday through Saturday, 10am to 5pm, and before most Folger performances.
Explore our garden, inspired by herbal references in Shakespeare's plays and also incorporating plants popular in his time, including lavender, creeping thyme, and English ivy; a knot garden; and Shakespearean statues by American sculptor Greg Wyatt. Folger docents offer insights into plantings, Elizabethan customs, and more.
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Ralph Alan Cohen on Blackfriars: “The Most Convenient Place”
July 9, 2012 7pm
Folger Elizabethan Theatre
Before it became synonymous with a theatre, The Blackfriars was a London precinct literally at the nexus of the City, the Church, and the Court. Ralph Alan Cohen, Director of Mission and Co-Founder of the American Shakespeare Center where he oversaw their building of a replica of the Blackfriars Playhouse, looks at how the place and the playhouse mirrored one another and made the Blackfriars the place to be and the place be seen.
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David Schalkwyk and actors from Taffety Punk: Readings from The Roaring Girl
July 30, 2012 7pm
Folger Elizabethan Theatre
Actors from Washington’s Taffety Punk Theatre Company present a staged dramatic reading of excerpts of The Roaring Girl, a bold, brilliant play by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker. The play was first produced in 1611 and was restaged famously in the 1980s by the Royal Shakespeare Company. David Schalkwyk, Folger’s director of research, talks about why this “city comedy” reveals so much about Jacobean London.
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