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Consort
Courting Elizabeth: Music and Patronage in Shakespeare's England, Sep 26–28
Exhibitions
Symbols of Honor: Heraldry and Family History in Shakespeare's England, Jul 1–Oct 26
Family Programs
Shake Up Your Saturdays: All in the Family, Sep 6
Poetry
The Richard Wright Birthday Celebration, Sep 4
Poet Lore Celebrates 125 Years of Literary Discovery, Sep 15
Here and Now: Stephen Dunn, Sep 29
Talks & Screenings
Thomas Cahill: Heretics and Heroes, Sep 8 (Single tickets for this event available now)
The Institute of Heraldry: Guardians of our National Symbolic Heritage, Sep 19
Theater
Shakespeare's Globe: King Lear, Sep 5–21 (Single tickets for this event available now)
Tours
Reading Rooms, Sats at noon
Elizabethan Garden, first and third Sats, 10am and 11am
Folger members receive discounts on tickets to Folger performances and readings; memberships begin at $75. Join us!
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| In the nineteenth century, the fledgling field of modern psychiatry was regarded with distrust and little respect by many Americans. What it needed, above all, was authority—and what better, more respected authority than the Bard? Join us to explore a curious yet fascinating intersection between civil society and William Shakespeare. This podcast in our Shakespeare Unlimited series features Benjamin Reiss, an English professor at Emory University, interviewed by Rebecca Sheir. | | |
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| Have you heard? The contents of the Folger's Digital Image Collection are now licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This means that images can be freely shared, even for commercial purposes, as long as the Folger Shakespeare Library is cited as the source and the images continue forward under the CC BY-SA license. So what are you waiting for? Explore the nearly 80,000 images in our digital collection and let inspiration strike where it may. | | |
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Heather Wolfe, curator of manuscripts, shares a pedigree of Queen Elizabeth I copied out of a book in the College of Arms in England. It shows Elizabeth at the top of a leafy tree emerging from the belly of Edward III, who was the root of her family "tree." This manuscript is part of the Symbols of Honor: Heraldry and Family History in Shakespeare's England exhibition.
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Join us next month to hear bestselling author Thomas Cahill discuss his new book, Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World. In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Cahill guides us through a time so full of innovation that the Western world would not again experience its like until the twentieth century: the new humanism of the Renaissance and the radical religious alterations of the Reformation. Wine reception and book signing to follow.
Mon, Sep 8
7:30pm
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Shakespeare's well-known line from Henry VI, Part 2, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" is used by many as a humorous vent for frustration with the legal profession. But attorneys (of course) object to the literal interpretation. Even retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has weighed in with his opinion: "As a careful reading of that text will reveal, Shakespeare insightfully realized that disposing of lawyers is a step in the direction of a totalitarian form of government."
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