Seona Anderson 17/07/2024 Seona Anderson 17/07/2024

BAY

Shakespeare Species Bay: Stage Directions Vision; six personages clad in white robes, wearing on their heads garlands of bays. The Bay or Laurel has been a symbol of victory or celebration for millennia as well as being an important food and medicine.

Seona Anderson 07/06/2024 Seona Anderson 07/06/2024

FENNEL

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, FENNEL: even such delight among fresh fennel buds shall you inherit at my house tonight. Fennel was and is a popular herb & vegetable and is also used metaphorically in Shakespeare in several plays.

Seona Anderson 14/05/2024 Seona Anderson 14/05/2024

PARSLEY

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, PARSLEY: I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley. Parsley was both a herb and a medicine.

Seona Anderson 11/05/2024 Seona Anderson 11/05/2024

ROSEMARY

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, ROSEMARY: dry up your tears and stick your rosemary on this fair corse. Rosemary was used in funeral & marriage rites as well as in medicine and food.

Seona Anderson 24/01/2024 Seona Anderson 24/01/2024

WORMWOOD

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, WORMWOOD: To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain and therewithal to win me. Wormwood is a herb, medicine, poison and signal of the end of days. Read more about this remarkable plant.