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Folger Finds: 19th-century actors in Shakespearean roles
See portraits from the Folger collection of Edmund Kean as Richard III, Ellen Terry as Beatrice, Edwin Booth as Iago, and Fanny Kemble as Juliet.
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Toil and trouble: Recipes and the witches in 'Macbeth'
Shakespeare’s witches, like nearly all witches of Shakespeare’s time, have their roots in the kitchen more than in the study.
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Summertime in the Folger collection: Sunshine, youth, and harvest
Slip into the Folger collection with me and connect with sweltering people from summers past in their quest to beat the heat or rhapsodize summer’s charms.
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Quiz: Which copy of "Midsummer" are you?
The Folger’s collection includes a lot of editions of Shakespeare’s plays; some copies of these editions have their own, unique stories. Which of these special copies of Shakespeare’s classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream matches your personality? Take our quiz to…
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Explore promptbooks from the 1950s festival Shakespeare Under the Stars
The Folger collection contains a number of prompt books from Shakespeare Under the Stars productions, which were gifts from Arthur Lithgow.
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Shakespeare's Heroines (some of them, anyway)
Explore a set of early 19th-century watercolor portraits of Shakespearean heroines in the Folger collection.
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Salvador Dalí and Shakespeare
See illustrations and costume designs by surrealist Salvador Dalí in the Folger Shakespeare Library collection for plays like “The Taming of the Shrew.”
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Inside an Argentine translation of ‘Hamlet’ paired with surrealist illustrations
Rafael Squirru and Juan Carlos Liberti collaborated to create this Argentine translation of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ with surrealist illustrations.
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'The Blazing World' by Margaret Cavendish: The first science fiction novel written by a woman
“The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World” by Margaret Cavendish has been called the first science-fiction novel written by a woman. Learn more about this book, which is part of the Folger collection.
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An edition of Richard III "adapted for amateurs"
Black actor J.A. Arneaux starred as the title character in the Astor Place Company’s production of Richard III and published his own 19th-century edition.
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Pageants, banquets, and fireworks: How to celebrate a coronation
These books and documents from the Folger collection show the many ways an English coronation would be celebrated in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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All the table's a stage: A 1619 Christmas play for food
In this unconventional Christmas play from 1619, the characters are different foods warring against one another for pride of place at the holiday feast.