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Shakespeare

Two film studios, alike in dignity...
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Two film studios, alike in dignity...

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Sarah Hovde

The Folger owns a variety of printed items related to the cinematic history of Shakespeare—screenplays and manuscript drafts, pressbooks and souvenir programs, and still photographs. Generally, there’s a good chance that we also have the related film recording in some…

Shakespeare Land
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Shakespeare Land

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Sarah Hovde

As one reader quickly guessed, the photograph featured in last week’s crocodile post is part of an admission ticket to the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s burial place. This ticket is one window onto the growth of tourism in…

"A superfluous luxury": the St. Dunstan illuminated editions
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"A superfluous luxury": the St. Dunstan illuminated editions

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Sarah Hovde

If you’re a regular user of the internet, you probably saw a multitude of images posted for the Bard’s birthday a few weeks ago. I can almost guarantee, though, that few were as opulent as the contribution from the University…

How an 18th-century clergyman read his Folio
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How an 18th-century clergyman read his Folio

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

The Folger Shakespeare Library has never acquired another copy of a Shakespeare Folio since the Folgers’ time—until now. We recently added number 38 to our collection of Fourth Folios (S2915 Fo.4 no.38). Published in 1685, this was the last of…

Twelfth Night
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Twelfth Night

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Sarah Werner

What better play to consider on the twelfth night of Christmas than Twelfth Night? Viola Allen and James Young as Viola and Sebastian (1904) Although there are discrepant practices today whether the Feast of the Epiphany—marking the visit of the…

Storming Shakespeare: creating an artists' book
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Storming Shakespeare: creating an artists' book

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Jan Kellett

A guest post by Jan Kellett Editor’s note: When the Folger acquired the lovely artist’s book Storming Shakespeare from Jan Kellett last year, Erin Blake asked if she would be willing to share some information with our readers about the…

A carousel of tragedy
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A carousel of tragedy

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Sarah Werner

We are used to thinking of productions of Shakespeare’s plays as creating new works of art that demonstrate the vitality of the centuries-old drama. But in the right hands, books can achieve the same effect. Emily Martin’s The Tragedy of…

Surprised by Stanhope
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Surprised by Stanhope

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Sarah Werner

My favorite encounter with a book is one where I think I know what I’m going to find, but then something else entirely happens. My most recent serendipitous encounter came thanks to a tweet: Sjoerd Levelt was tweeting some images…

Pop Shakespeare's typography
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Pop Shakespeare's typography

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Sarah Werner

If you’ve been spending any time on social media recently, you’re likely to have come across Pop Sonnets, a new Tumblr that provides, in their words, “Old twists on new tunes, every Thursday.” Here, for instance, is their deft rewriting…

William Dethick and the Shakespeare Grants of Arms
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William Dethick and the Shakespeare Grants of Arms

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Nigel Ramsay

A guest post by Nigel Ramsay For many visitors to the Folger’s Heraldry exhibit, “Symbols of Honor,” the stars will be the three original draft grants on paper of Shakespeare’s coats of arms. These belong to the English heralds’ long-established…

Four states of Shakespeare: the Droeshout portrait
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Four states of Shakespeare: the Droeshout portrait

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Sarah Werner

So the mysterious eye of this month’s crocodile belongs to no other than Shakespeare, as some readers immediately recognized: Droeshout’s engraving of Shakespeare on the title page of the First Folio More specifically, it is Shakespeare’s left right eye as depicted…

Conserving the Cosway Portrait of Shakespeare
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Conserving the Cosway Portrait of Shakespeare

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Dawn Rogala

A guest post by Dawn Rogala Editor’s note: Folger conservators are internationally known for their expertise in book and paper conservation. When it comes to conserving paintings, though, we turn to outside experts like Dawn Rogala of Page Conservation, Inc. Here,…

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