Folger Shakespeare Library

This guide to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. walks the Elizabethan Garden behind the marble building, matching its clipped herb beds to lines and characters from the plays that inspired them. You'll meet the linden tree that still draws bees, the trickster fountain named for A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the magnolia Emily Jordan Folger planted with her own hands on opening day in 1932. It closes on a locked case inside, holding a sliver of wood said to come from a tree Shakespeare himself once planted in Stratford.