On April 3, 2025 the Folger’s virtual book club continues with a discussion of Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth. To prepare for the discussion, we have pulled together a list of resources related to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, gaming, and girlhood.
LEARN more about Twelfth Night
CONNECT with related Folger programming
- Folger Theatre’s Twelfth Night, on stage May 13 – June 22, 2025
- Folger Foe-lios, a series of introductory 5E Adventures
LEARN more about Shakespeare and gaming
- The game’s the thing
- Gaming and grieving with Shakespeare: Gabrielle Zevin’s new novel puts the ghostliness in gameplay
- Fortune’s Fools: early tarot cards
- Rough Magic: Performing Shakespeare Through Gaming Technology
LISTEN to related podcasts
- Episode 60: Shakespeare and Girlhood
- Episode 62: Shakespeare and YA Novels—Ryan North and Molly Booth
- Episode 72: Adapting Shakespeare
REVISIT past book club selections
- The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
We would like to thank the following organization for its generous support of this program

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Folger Book Club: 'Twelfth Knight'
by Alexene Farol Follmuth
by Alexene Farol Follmuth

Folger Book Club: 'Twelfth Knight'
Our April 2025 book club is a charming coming-of-age story by Alexene Farol Follmuth involving online gaming, based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Thu, Apr 3, 2025, 6:30pm
Early Music Seminar: Kings and Commonwealth

Early Music Seminar: Kings and Commonwealth
Folger Consort Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein leads a lively virtual seminar that offers a sneak peek at the music performed in the Folger Consort’s upcoming "Kings and Commonwealth: The English Civil War."
Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 6pm ET
Folger Book Club:
'The Death I Gave Him' by Em X. Liu
Folger Book Club:
'The Death I Gave Him' by Em X. Liu

Folger Book Club:
'The Death I Gave Him' by Em X. Liu
Our May 2025 is lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller.
Thu, May 1, 2025, 6:30pm
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