Folger Collections

Ahead of the US premiere of The Mirror and the Light, curator Heather Wolfe shares the juicy stories behind items in our collection related to Cromwell and Anne of Cleves.

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

GWU students reflect on their experience using the Folger collections in Dr. Rachel Pollack’s first-year writing course.

To celebrate her feast day, explore the legend of Saint Agatha as told through Folger manuscript V.b.334

I made a zine inspired by the Folger Shakespeare Library’s collection (and you can too!). 

Explore the (often biting) commentary that Victorian novelist Antony Trollope left in a copy of Marlowe’s plays.

A behind the scenes look at the creation of a reproduction of one of the embroidered bindings on display in Little Books, Big Gifts: The Artistry of Esther Inglis.

This month’s Folger Mystery explores the reuse of a woodblock print as it was eaten away by worms.

Spot the difference in this month’s Folger mystery!

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

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