Today is Shakepeare’s 450th birthday! Throughout April, we've been illustrating famous quotes from each of his plays. You can follow our play-a-day series on Pinterest, and read the Bard’s works online for free at folgerdigitaltexts.org – our birthday gift to you!
Education
Emily Jordan Folger Children's Festival, May 12-16
Exhibition
Shakespeare's The Thing, through Jun 15
Family Program
Shake Up Your Saturdays: It's a Garden Party!, May 3
PEN/Faulkner
34th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Ceremony and Dinner, May 10
Poetry
Folger Board Reading: Carol Ann Duffy, May 5
Before & After: Poets Respond to Two Gentlemen of Verona, May 9
Special Event
Folger Gala, Apr 23
Theater
Fiasco Theater's The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Apr 17-May 25
Fiasco Theater's Cymbeline, May 28-Jun 1
Talks and Screenings
Pre-Show Talk: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, with Michael Witmore, May 7
James Shapiro: Shakespeare in America, May 12
Preview Screening: Still Dreaming, May 19
Cymbeline Pre-Show Talk: Valerie Wayne, May 29
Tours
Reading Rooms, Sats at noon
Folger members receive discounts on tickets to Folger performances and readings; memberships begin at $75. Join us!
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To celebrate Shakespeare's 450th birthday, we're offering our Folger Luminary Shakespeare apps at a discounted price for a limited time. The apps take five of Shakespeare's most popular plays and blend the expertly edited text with audio recordings, expert commentary, note-taking tools, and social sharing capabilities—creating a unique interactive experience.
Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello
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| April 23 is not just Shakespeare's birthday. It's the Folger's too. The Folger Shakespeare Library opened on April 23, 1932, and each year we celebrate a "double birthday" of sorts. From the annual birthday lectures with speakers like Jorge Luis Borges to the elegant Folger galas that attract Washington's elite, follow us back through time as we look at the various ways the Folger has marked this special occasion. | | |
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From the earliest stories about Shakespeare, to later biographies, to the Shakespeares reimagined by other great writers, Brian Cummings considers the nature of biography, memory, literature, and loss in the annual Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture, delivered this year on April 3. The lecture opened Folger Institute's "Shakespeare and the Problem of Biography" collaborative research conference, part of the Folger's celebration of Shakespeare's 450th birthday.
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| Two New York booksellers, George Koppelman and Daniel Wechsler, are claiming to have discovered a dictionary annotated by Wiliam Shakespeare and have written a book, Shakespeare's Beehive, presenting their reasons. In a blog post on The Collation, Michael Witmore, the Folger's director, and Heather Wolfe, the Folger's curator of manuscripts, go through the questions that will arise in evaluating this claim and the techniques scholars will use in their careful scrutiny of the annotations. | | |
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| Hal, the main character in a new series called Complete Works, is obsessed with Shakespeare, and he's taking his love of the Bard to a seriously intense collegiate Shakespeare competition. One of the prizes (we kid you not!) is a complete set of Folger Editions. Keep an eye out for the books and other references to the Folger Shakespeare Library as they appear throughout the series! The show premieres today, Shakespeare's 450th birthday, on Hulu. | | |
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