Folger Fellows

Fellow Alex Baines looks at the drawings of C. Walter Hodges and how they continue to impact how we imagine the Globe Theatre

Artistic fellow Casey Carsel shares their process designing textile works in response to questions about the Early Modern Jewish experience

Folger Fellow Ianick Takaes explores an early modern staging of heaven and hell.

A look at items in the Folger collection belonging to William Stukeley, an antiquarian with an interest in Robin Hood

Artistic Fellow Camille Thomas shares how research at the Folger helps inform her play, Sweet Blood.

Fellow Roberta Kwan discusses Shakespeare and loving thy neighbor

An examination of Cleopatra’s racialized and sexualized queenship through the twinned theoretical frameworks of indigenous and queer conviviality

Fellow Douglas Clark delves into the contents of the previously overlooked manuscript, Thomas Grocer’s Banquet of Sweetmeats.

Artistic Fellow Leah Hampton showcases the Folger’s collection of Early Modern bar tokens

Folger fellow Amy Cooper explores the relationship between memory and the doodles of faces, dragons, and people in the margins of books.