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Esther French

Esther French is the Digital Managing Editor at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Shakespeare Live: How Shakespeare plays are being staged across America
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Shakespeare Live: How Shakespeare plays are being staged across America

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Get a glimpse of how different theaters and festivals around the United States are staging Shakespeare. Featured in this gallery are Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and…

Five questions for Pop Sonnets creator Erik Didriksen
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Five questions for Pop Sonnets creator Erik Didriksen

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On his very popular Tumblr, Pop Sonnets, Erik Didriksen takes hit songs and rewrites them as Shakespearean sonnets. For example, Beyoncé’s “If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it” becomes “If truly you did wish…

Andrea Mays: The Millionaire and the Bard
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Andrea Mays: The Millionaire and the Bard

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Henry Clay Folger paid a world record price for a book—not once, but twice—as he became the world’s leading collector of Shakespeare First Folios. In this episode from Shakespeare Unlimited, economist and author Andrea Mays talks with Neva Grant about…

Shakespeare in the Caribbean
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Shakespeare in the Caribbean

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Roxi Victorian as Hero (center) with the cast of Folger Theatre’s Much Ado About Nothing, a 2009 production inspired by the D.C. Caribbean Carnival. Photo by Carol Pratt. As you’ll hear in this episode of the Folger’s Shakespeare Unlimited podcast, Shakespeare…

What makes a Shakespearean actor truly great?
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What makes a Shakespearean actor truly great?

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A recent episode of the Folger’s Shakespeare Unlimited podcast offers an interesting interview with British Shakespearean scholar and author Stanley Wells. At the heart of that conversation, one might say, is a simple question. For all the contributions of directors…

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