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Edmund Kean

The Carib Garifuna Chief: Transatlantic Images of Chatoyer in the Early 19th Century
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The Carib Garifuna Chief: Transatlantic Images of Chatoyer in the Early 19th Century

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Désha Osborne

Folger Fellow Désha Osborne looks at Horace Twiss’s early 19th century play The Carib Chief.

Folger Finds: 19th-century actors in Shakespearean roles
Edmund Kean
Shakespeare and Beyond

Folger Finds: 19th-century actors in Shakespearean roles

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Kristen Sieck

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.

Jane Austen's Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Beyond

Jane Austen's Shakespeare

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Janine Barchas Kristina Straub

Jane Austen, who was born in 1775, came of age in the 1790s and started publishing in the 1810s; her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, came out in 1811. She died in 1817, which makes 2017 the 200th anniversary of…

A Tour of the Vault!
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A Tour of the Vault!

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Louis Butelli

“When I was young and first read ‘OTHELLO,’ I thought the character of RODERIGO of little importance; it seemed introduced merely to fill up those vacancies of action which might otherwise have remained unemployed.” Hey, blogfriends! It’s your pal Louis,…