Esther Ferington

John Douglas Thompson, who is playing the title role in Othello in the Royal Shakespeare Company production, shares his insights about the character and the play.

Selected by director Raymond O. Caldwell and the Folger staff, with evocative descriptions by Caldwell, rare objects resonate with the themes of Romeo and Juliet.

As we welcome Folger Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet, we take a look back at some intriguing and varied highlights of our past looks at the play.

Mark the recent equinox and the start of autumn in the northern hemisphere with a look at Sonnet 73. Take this quiz to see if you can correctly order the lines.

Greg Prickman discusses Imprints in Time, the first special exhibition in the new space, including Tolkien’s edits and an ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.

Challenge yourself with a quiz about Romeo and Juliet.

Peggy O’Brien helps us explore a giant, richly detailed fictional map filled with Shakespeare’s characters, newly created for the Folger’s exhibition spaces.

New research casts a more positive light on why Shakespeare’s father was fined for building a muckhill.

Shakespeare’s plays are full of sports and games. Test your knowledge with these questions.

In this busy travel time, try out our “Travel and Shakespeare” quiz about journeys in his plays and in real life, too.

Michael Witmore talks about his experiences as Folger director and the recent Folger grand reopening.

Explore the new landscape and public spaces of the Folger Shakespeare Library to find touches of Shakespeare and the early modern age in which he lived.