Exhibitions
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude, Mar 19–Aug 23
Poetry
Rita Dove, May 19
Research Colloquia
David Norbrook—"Gentry, Gender, and Atheism: Lucy Hutchinson and the Writing of the English Revolution", May 8
Craig Martin—"Francis Bacon and Sixteenth-Century Histories of Wind", May 15
Erika T. Lin—"May Games and Robin Hood: Festive Theatricality in Early Modern England", May 22
Gail McMurray Gibson—"The Croxton Play of the Sacrament in Ireland", May 29
Talks and Screenings
Brews and Banter: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, May 21
Pre-Show Talk: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, May 27
Theater
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, May 12–Jun 21
Tours
Reading Rooms, Sats at noon
Elizabethan Garden, 1st and 3rd Sats at 10am and 11am, April through October
Folger members receive discounts on tickets and merchandise, with memberships starting at $75. Join us today!
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From the duels in Romeo and Juliet to a brutal mob in Julius Caesar, street fighting transforms several of Shakespeare's plays. How much, though, does it reflect (or differ from) the mean streets of his day? Our guests on this podcast episode are Vanessa McMahon, author of Murder in Shakespeare's England (2004), and Casey Kaleba, an expert in Elizabethan street crime and one of the Washington, DC, area's most sought-after fight coaches for stage plays.
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| Find out when and where the Folger's Shakespeare First Folio traveling exhibition will be coming near you next year. First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare will tour all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, DC, beginning in January 2016 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, The Sam Noble Museum in Norman, OK, and the University of Oregon in Eugene. The exhibition will commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death next year. | | |
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Rita Dove, a former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, will take the Folger stage May 19 to read her own work but also some poems by those she considers her literary influences, among them William Shakespeare. She says Shakespeare's sonnets figured prominently in her formative years, particularly "42 for its dazzling wordplay and 87 for... well, every reason in the world."
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| The Folger Shakespeare Library has never acquired another copy of a Shakespeare Folio since the time of our founders—until now. This blog post takes us into what was the last of the four great printings of Shakespeare's collected plays during the 17th century. Explore the history of this Shakespeare Folio's original owners, the Francis family in Ireland, and some of the interesting notes they added to the text. | | |
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| A new book by Tina Packer, Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays, looks at how Shakespeare developed his female characters over the course of his career. This article from the BBC also notes audiences' changing perceptions of these female characters over time. "The popularity of Shakespeare's heroines waxes and wanes according to how they seem to represent certain moments and notions of femininity," says Gail Kern Paster, director emerita at the Folger Shakespeare Library. | | |
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