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[[Antony and Cleopatra|''Antony and Cleopatra'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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...William Shakespeare's birth. Learn more about web archiving at the Folger Shakespeare Library [[Web_archiving|here]].
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[[Richard II|''Richard II'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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[[Measure for Measure|''Measure for Measure'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express performed their production of William Shakespeare's [[Love's Labor's Lost|''Love's Labor's Lost'']], directed by Thomas L. Be
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The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express performed their production of William Shakespeare's [[A Midsummer Night's Dream|''A Midsummer Night's Dream'']], directed by
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The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express performed their production of William Shakespeare's [[Henry IV, Part 1|''Henry IV, Part 1'']], directed by Jim Warren, from M
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[[Julius Caesar|''Julius Caesar'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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[[Twelfth Night|''Twelfth Night'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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[[Henry IV, Part 2|''Henry IV, Part 2'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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[[The Winter's Tale|''The Winter's Tale'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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...he [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]'s ongoing effort to preserve and collect Shakespeare related materials in digital format.
[[Web collection: Folger Shakespeare Library Websites and Social Media]]
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'''''Free Folger Friday: Theodore Leinwand on Writers Reading Shakespeare''''', one of the [[Talks and Screenings at the Folger]], was held at the [[
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'''''Brews and Banter: The Reduced Shakespeare Company''''', one of the [[Talks and Screenings at the Folger]], was held a
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[[Cymbeline|''Cymbeline'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express performed their production of William Shakespeare's [[Antony and Cleopatra|''Antony and Cleopatra'']], directed by Ralph Alan
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[[The Merchant of Venice|''The Merchant of Venice'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
...of Shakespeare's Play (2015)|''The Merchant of Venice: Music and Poetry of Shakespeare's Play'' (2015)]], a performance by the [[Folger Consort]].
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[[The Tempest|''The Tempest'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express presented their production of William Shakespeare's [[Measure for Measure|''Measure for Measure'']], directed by Jim Warren,
[[File:William Hamilton Isabella appealing to Angelo 1793.jpg|frame|William Hamilton. ''Isabella appealing to Angelo''. Oil on canvas, 1793. Call numbe
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[[Richard III|''Richard III'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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[[All's Well That Ends Well|''All's Well That Ends Well'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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...mposer James Primosch. The Consort's performances featured Rosa Lamoreaux, William Sharp, and Tempesta di Mare.
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...Midsummer Night's Dream|''A Midsummer Night's Dream'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express performed their production of William Shakespeare's [[A Midsummer Night's Dream|''A Midsummer Night's Dream'']], directed by
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...ditions of Shakespeare's works. For related articles, please see [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)]].''
...e's works|Folger Shakespeare Editions]]—the gold standard in modern edited Shakespeare texts—with:
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[[The Comedy of Errors|''The Comedy of Errors'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express performed their production of William Shakespeare's [[Romeo and Juliet|''Romeo and Juliet'']], directed by Jim Warren, from J
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...n a few days of his baptism on April 26. Every year, the Folger celebrates Shakespeare's Birthday with a full day of festivities.
...area students to submit sonnets of their own composing in honor of William Shakespeare's birthday. Below are the articles for the contest and previous entries.
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[[Much Ado About Nothing|''Much Ado About Nothing'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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[[Romeo and Juliet|''Romeo and Juliet'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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[[As You Like It|''As You Like It'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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[[Henry VIII|''Henry VIII'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
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...lliam Shakespeare's long poems. For related articles, please see [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)]].''
...more important to any writer’s literary reputation. Tradition has it that Shakespeare wrote his two long poems, [[Venus and Adonis|''Venus and Adonis'']] and [[T
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...additional information about the project, see the [[Media:NEH Final Report Shakespeare Quartos Archive.pdf|NEH Final Performance Report]].
Images from the Shakespeare Quartos Archive are divided into to groups:
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The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express presented their production of William Shakespeare's ''[[Macbeth|Macbeth]]'', directed by David W. Johnson, from May 18 to Jun
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The Traveling Shakespeare Company performed their production of William Shakespeare's [[A Midsummer Night's Dream| ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'']], directed by
*William Newlin: Egeus
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...ibrary editions of Shakespeare. For related articles, please see [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)]].''
...Paul Werstine] and published by [http://series.simonandschuster.com/Folger-Shakespeare-Library/books Simon & Schuster]. Our site was launched in December 2012.
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...on the charming comedy, [[Richard III|''Richard III'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], in an insightful pre-performance discussion. A reception with li
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...cal contemporaries. Soaring to match the vaulted reaches of the cathedral, William Byrd's magnificent motests for voices were balanced by the intimate intensi
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...wo Gentlemen of Verona|''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], in an insightful pre-performance discussion. A reception with li
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...ditions of Shakespeare's works. For related articles, please see [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)]].''
...complete, unabridged texts of the [[Folger Shakespeare Library editions of Shakespeare's works]] and performed by leading Shakespearean actors.
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''This article is about a [[Folger Consort]] performance inspired by Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[The Merchant of Venice (disambiguation)]].''
...the Bassano family, actors joined the Consort on stage with passages from Shakespeare's play. The Consort performed ''The Merchant of Venice'' with violins, viol
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...akespeare Library]] Director [[Michael Witmore]] shared his perspective on Shakespeare's [[Julius Caesar|''Julius Caesar'']] in an insightful pre-performance disc
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...wo Gentlemen of Verona|''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'']], one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]].
[[Category: Before & After: Poets Respond to Shakespeare]]
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The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express presented their production of William Shakespeare's [[Richard III|''Richard III'']], directed by Ralph Alan Cohen, from June
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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Director, [[Teaching Shakespeare Institute|Teaching Shakespeare Institute (]]NEH Institute, [[2013–2014 Folger Institute Scholarly Progra
Speaker, [[Shakespeare in American Education, 1607–1934 (conference)|Shakespeare in American Education, 1607–1934]] (Conference, [[2006–2007 Folger Inst
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The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express presented their production of [[Love's Labor's Lost|''Love's Labor'
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...play, visit [[Richard III|''Richard III'']] for information, or [[William Shakespeare's plays]] to access more of the Bard's works.
[[Category: William Shakespeare's works]]
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The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express presented their production of [[The Taming of the Shrew|''The Tamin
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...of Staging Shakespeare|''Here Is a Play Fitted: Four Centuries of Staging Shakespeare'']], part of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
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...st, from July 25-26, 2014.[[File:2014 Hamlet Shakespeare's Globe.jpg|frame|Shakespeare's Globe ''Hamlet''.|alt=|center]]
...ection and violent action, tragic depth and wild humor, <em>Hamlet</em> is Shakespeare’s ‘poem unlimited’, a colossus in the story of the English language a
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[[Folger Theatre]] presented the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express production of [[A Midsummer Night's Dream|''A Midsummer Night's Dre
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[[Folger Shakespeare Library]]
[[Folger Shakespeare Library editions of Shakespeare's works|Folger Editions]]
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...Burning Pestle'', directed by Ralph Alan Cohen, in repertory with William Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'' from May 18 to June 6, 1999.
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...the plays of August Wilson and how they can relate to the plays of William Shakespeare.
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...and Screenings at the Folger]], was held in the Board Room of the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] on Friday, February 26, 2016 at 6:00pm.
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...lm will appeal to ardent fans of the Bard as well as audiences discovering Shakespeare for the first time.
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...erto Rico, and Washington DC in 2016 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
*Annapolis Shakespeare Company
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The two organizations teamed up to screen two of Hollywood's takes on Shakespeare's plays for a free series of outdoor films. The two films shown were [https
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...erto Rico, and Washington DC in 2016 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[The Tempest|''The Tempest'']], directed by Joe Banno, from October 28 t
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'''''Photographing Shakespeare: The Folger Shakespeare Library''''', one of the [[Talks and Screenings at the Folger]], was held i
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...ay Lecture |here]]. For other articles about Shakespeare's Birthday, see [[Shakespeare's Birthday (disambiguation)]].
...med Shakespeare biography ''Soul of the Age'', speaks on "The Good Life in Shakespeare" and about the Epicurean tradition, with an emphasis on the plays [[As You
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...tre|Folger Theatre]] presented Shakespeare Globe's performance of William Shakespeare's [[King Lear|''King Lear'']], directed by Bill Buckhurst, from September 5
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[[Folger Consort]] performed ''Shakespeare and Purcell: Music of The Fairy Queen and Other Works'' from April 8 to Apr
...this monumental piece are performed along with other memorable settings of Shakespeare by Purcell. With harpsichord, strings, and voices.
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The Source Theatre Company performed their production of William Shakespeare's [[The Merchant of Venice|''The Merchant of Venice'']], directed by Joe Ba
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The Shakespeare Phantom: The Lives of William Henry Ireland ([[Folger Institute 2014–2015 short-term fellows|2014–201
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...re]] produced the Reduced Shakespeare's Company's performance of ''William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)'' from April 21 to May 8, 2016.
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced ''Shakespeare's R&J'', adapted and directed by Joe Calarco, from February 18 to March 19,
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[[Folger Theatre]] and The Travelling Shakespeare Company co-produced William Shakespeare's [[Richard III|''Richard III'']], directed by Timothy Douglas, from Januar
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The two organizations teamed up to celebrate 400 Years of Shakespeare with two of Hollywood's takes on his plays for a free weekend of outdoor fi
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''This article is about a poetry reading in response to Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[The Two Gentlemen of Verona (disambiguation)]
[[Category: Before & After: Poets Respond to Shakespeare]]
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...ger Theatre]] presented the Aquila Theatre Company's production of William Shakespeare's [[Julius Caesar|''Julius Caesar'']], adapted and directed by Robert Richm
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[As You Like It|''As You Like It'']], directed by Aaron Posner, from May
*Kate Eastwood Norris*: Adam, Phoebe, William, First Lord, Bad Lord
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...ut William Shakespeare's plays. For related articles, please see [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)]].''
We know of 39 plays by William Shakespeare, including a few collaborations with other playwrights. One play, [[Cardeni
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's ''[[Othello|Othello]]'', directed by Aaron Posner, from May 9 to June 16,
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:''Shakespeare in Pieces''
:''Shakespeare’s Substance: A Reading of the Sonnets''
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“The Nineteenth-Century Shakespeare Dramaturg: William Winter and Horace Howard Furness” ([[Folger Institute 2014–2015 short-t
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...enix and Turtle'', or ''The Phoenix and the Turtle'', was one of [[William Shakespeare's poems]] printed with no title; it was one of several additional poems in
...nsumes itself in fire, from the ashes of which another phoenix is born. In Shakespeare's poem, the phoenix is female and the turtle (that is, a turtledove) is mal
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...local poets to respond to [[Folger Theatre]]'s performances of [[William Shakespeare's plays]]. The original work of the poets explores themes from the play, in
[[Category: Before & After: Poets Respond to Shakespeare]]
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...ors play up in their production of this dramatic romance, one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]] written late in his career, what do they play down, and why did t
...the editorial board of ''Shakespeare Quarterly'', chaired the New Variorum Shakespeare Committee, and been president of the Society for the Study of Early Modern
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''This article is about a [[Folger Consort]] performance inspired by Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[The Merchant of Venice (disambiguation)]].''
...the Bassano family, actors joined the Consort on stage with passages from Shakespeare's play. The Consort performed ''The Merchant of Venice'' with violins, viol
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...William Shakespeare's sonnets. For related articles, please see [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)]].''
...nets that engage us, but the story that their sequence seems to tell about Shakespeare's love life, whenever one reads the ''Sonnets'' in the order in which they
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| [[William Shakespeare's sonnets|''Shakespeare's Sonnets'']] || <nowiki>ISBN 0-671-72287-5</nowiki>
| [[William Shakespeare's poems|''Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems'']] || <nowiki>ISBN 0-7432-7328-1</nowiki>
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[[Category: William Shakespeare's works]]
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''Henry VI, Part 1'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], is an uncompromising celebration of early English nationalism th
...peare edition, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. © 2008 Folger Shakespeare Library.</ref>
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...ogy from the Revolution to Now''. A viewing of [[Shakespeare's the Thing|''Shakespeare's the Thing'']] and a reception followed the talk.
...to Pauline Kael and Woody Allen in creating a vivid history of the role of Shakespeare in the United States. With a preface by Bill Clinton, Shapiro's book is a f
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...Consort]] performed ''The Wonder of Will: Early and New Music Celebrating Shakespeare'' from January 22 to January 23, 2016 at the [http://www.nationalcathedral.
...King James I resound in the cathedral, along with music by contemporaries William Byrd and John Dowland, including the Lachrimae for five viols and lute. Vio
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...|William Smith. ''Alphabet or blazon of arms'' [manuscript]. 1597. [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=234858 Call number V.b.217].]]
...n Shakespeare's England|''Symbols of Honor: Heraldry and Family History in Shakespeare's England (2014)'']]—which was on exhibit through October 26, 2014.
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...ddle tunes, and other popular forms that were the musical warp and woof of Shakespeare's theatrical world.
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:''The Private Life of William Shakespeare''
[[William H. Sherman]], Professor of English, University of York
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[[Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's ''[[Hamlet|Hamlet]]'', directed by Joe Banno, from October 30 to December
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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...e Birthday lecture. For other articles about Shakespeare's Birthday, see [[Shakespeare's Birthday (disambiguation)]].''
...than the mythical and historical figures on whom they are based. But when Shakespeare created his kings, he was entering into a crucial Renaissance debate: how t
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'''Shakespeare and the Problem of Biography'''
...nti-Biography,” Brian Cummings will assay the problem of writing a life of Shakespeare.
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...erto Rico, and Washington DC in 2016 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
*March 10, 2016 – Conference: ¿Por Qué Volver a Shakespeare?
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One of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], written by Shakespeare and John Fletcher, this play tells the familiar story of a love triangle. H
...peare edition, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. © 2010 Folger Shakespeare Library.</ref>
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Louis B. Thalheimer Head of Reference, Georgianna Ziegler, curated ''Gilding Shakespeare: the Art of Decorative Bindings'' for [[The Curatorial Eye: Discoveries fro
...n they vied with each other to attract purchasers for the many editions of Shakespeare they issued. These colorfully-bound volumes were designed to catch the eye
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...he context of their times, while also allowing us greater insight into how Shakespeare was personally touched by such events as a terrible outbreak of plague and
...' on the Folger podcast ''Shakespeare Unlimited'' [https://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/james-shapiro-year-lear/ here].
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...e|''The Wonder of Will: 400 Years of Shakespeare'']] 2016 commemoration of Shakespeare's death
...geles Public Library where it opened on November 17th, 2016 as ''America’s Shakespeare: the Bard Goes West''.
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...a broadcast from the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company, captured from Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon, in their own [[Elizabethan Theatre]]. Th
==The Royal Shakespeare Company==
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...Golden Lads & Lasses: Shakespeare for Children|''“Golden Lads and Lasses”: Shakespeare for Children'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
The following list includes books by and about Shakespeare that are geared for children and were featured in the exhibition. The list
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...author '''Stephen Greenblatt''' read and discussed his new book, ''Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics'' (released May 8, 2018).
...Or through the patient work of grubby politics? On all of these subjects, Shakespeare’s work speaks to us today.
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[[Folger Theatre]] and Interact Theatre Company co-produced William Shakespeare's [[As You Like It|''As You Like It'']], directed by Catherine Flye, from A
*Stephen Murphy: Dennis, Servant to Oliver / William, a country fellow / Musician
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==The Royal Shakespeare Company==
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[King Lear|''King Lear'']], directed by Alfred Preisser, from January 11
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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As the grand finale to its 30th season and a highlight of the ''Shakespeare in Washington'' celebration, [[Folger Consort]] presented Henry Purcell's m
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[[Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[The Tempest|''The Tempest'']], directed by Aaron Posner, from May 9 to
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...Sykes returned to the RSC to direct this riotous, exhilarating version of Shakespeare's romantic comedy.
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...corridors of power. The politics of spin and betrayal turn to violence in Shakespeare’s epic political tragedy, as the race to claim the empire spirals out of
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*Heart of America Shakespeare Festival
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[The Comedy of Errors|''The Comedy of Errors'']], directed by Joe Banno,
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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[[File:L.a.176.jpg|300px|thumb|right|L.a.176. Letter from William Bagot to his father Walter Bagot, 1619 November 7. Click [http://luna.folge
...nda Nesler, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Susan Stafinbil, J. Case Tompkins (Folger Shakespeare Library, 2012).]]
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''This article is about a [[Folger Consort]] performance inspired by Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[The Tempest (disambiguation)]].''
...d vocalists David Daniels and Robert McDonald performing music inspired by Shakespeare’s [[The Tempest|''The Tempest'']] and readings by Sir Derek Jacobi, Holly
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.... The only way is Windsor in this outrageous and fun-filled new version of Shakespeare's hilarious comedy.
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...om the Center for Shakespeare Studies, please see the article [[Center for Shakespeare Studies program archive]].
This was a spring 2002 semester seminar sponsored by the Center for Shakespeare Studies and led by Lynne Magnusson.
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[Romeo and Juliet|''Romeo and Juliet'']], directed by PJ Paparelli, from
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''The workes of Beniamin Ionson'' was published in 1616 by William Stansby. A fuller introduction is needed here!
===Copies held at the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]===
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...t|''Romeo and Juliet'']] for further information on the play, or [[William Shakespeare's plays]] to access more of the Bard's works.
[[Category: William Shakespeare's works]]
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"The Private Life of William Shakespeare" (Mellon, [[Folger Institute 2011–2012 long-term fellows|2011–2012]])
...o understand the development of these myths, the collections of the Folger Shakespeare Library are unrivalled. A year at the Folger would enable me to consult su
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[[Folger Theatre]] produced ''Standup Shakespeare'', book by Kenneth Welsh and music by Ray Leslee, from March 18 to April 2,
''Standup Shakespeare'' sets the timeless language of the Bard to the exciting rhythms of jazz, b
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''This article is about a poetry reading in response to Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Romeo and Juliet (disambiguation)]].''
[[Category: Before & After: Poets Respond to Shakespeare]]
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==Images of Shakespeare's plays==
...ized thousands of 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century images representing Shakespeare’s plays. Some of these images show actors in character, while others show
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''This article is about a screening of Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Henry IV, Part 2 (disambiguation)]].''
...a broadcast from the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company, captured from Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon, in their own [[Elizabethan Theatre]]. Di
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[Twelfth Night|''Twelfth Night'']], directed by Aaron Posner, from Janua
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''This article is about a screening of Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Henry IV, Part 1 (disambiguation)]].''
...a broadcast from the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company, captured from Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon, in their own [[Elizabethan Theatre]]. Di
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[As You Like It|''As You Like It'']], directed by Derek Goldman from Oct
*Scott McCormick: Charles, Martext, William
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's ''[[Macbeth|Macbeth]]'', directed by Joe Banno, from October 20 to Decemb
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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...as "post-humanist," "post-liberal," and "posthistoricist" to the study of Shakespeare's texts.
[[Category: William Shakespeare's works]]
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[All's Well That Ends Well (disambiguation)]].
''All’s Well That Ends Well'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], is the story of its heroine, Helen, more so than the story of Be
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...of [[The Wonder of Will: 400 Years of Shakespeare]] 2016 commemoration of Shakespeare's death.
Shakespeare's words, ideas, and characters are central to American life and thought—e
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==The Royal Shakespeare Company==
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[Much Ado About Nothing|''Much Ado About Nothing'']], directed by Timoth
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...series were reprinted under the series title "Folger Guides to the Age of Shakespeare."
| 3 || ''Shakespeare's Theatre and the Dramatic Tradition'' || [[Louis B. Wright]] || 1958 || [h
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...erto Rico, and Washington DC in 2016 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
*Wise Fool Shakespeare
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[Much Ado About Nothing|''Much Ado About Nothing'']], directed by Nick H
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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* ex3: William Shakespeare. ''Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies : published according to the
...aintings of ''A Midsummer Night’s Dream'', 1908, added directly to William Shakespeare, ''Le songe d’une nuit d’été''. Paris: L. Conquet, 1886. Call number:
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...r Around America with Ellen Terry and the Only Man She Ever Loved– William Shakespeare'' opened the ''Shakespearean Women'' festival, and played from October 5 to
*William Pucilowsky, Costume Design
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...2 and his "The Mysterious Mr. Webster" on BBC2 in 2014. The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 (2015), was awarded the the James Tait Black Prize as well as the S
...e Board of Directors of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is currently the Shakespeare Scholar in Residence at the Public Theater in New York City. He also serves
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Shakespeare’s tragedy of love and duty, picks up the Roman saga where ''Julius Caesar
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''This article is about a screening of Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Richard II (disambiguation)]].
...'', ''Broadchurch'') in the title role. The production opened at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon in October and was captured live during the No
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Folger Theatre and Fiasco Theater co-produced William Shakespeare's [[The Two Gentlemen of Verona|''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'']], co-direc
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==The Royal Shakespeare Company==
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...vered body parts fill the moral void at the heart of this corrupt society. Shakespeare’s gory revenge tragedy presents us with murder as entertainment, and, as
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...more extensive information, please visit [http://www.folger.edu/publishing-shakespeare#firstfolio the Folger homepage].
...d 36 of his plays, hoping to preserve them for future generations. Many of Shakespeare's plays, which were written to be performed, were not published during his
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*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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...erto Rico, and Washington DC in 2016 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
*Shakespeare Theatre Association
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Author Neil Rudenstine discusses ''Ideas of Order: A Close Reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnets''. Rudenstine, a former Harvard University president and an Eli
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's ''[[Othello|Othello]]'', directed by Robert Richmond, composed by Anthony
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[The Two Gentlemen of Verona|''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'']], directed
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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[[File:Thinking-Shakespeare-2018.jpg|325px|right|thumb|L-R: Barry Edelstein, Antoinette Robinson, Louis
'''''Free Folger Friday: Thinking Shakespeare with Barry Edelstein''''', one of the [[Talks and Screenings at the Folger]
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==The Royal Shakespeare Company==
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Henry IV, Part 2 (disambiguation)]].''
''Henry IV, Part 2'' is the only one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]] that is a "sequel," in the modern sense, to an earlier play of hi
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[[Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[Much Ado About Nothing|''Much Ado About Nothing'']], directed by Joe Ba
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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[[Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[Romeo and Juliet|''Romeo and Juliet'']], directed by Joe Banno, from No
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Measure for Measure (disambiguation)]].''
''Measure for Measure'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], is among the most passionately discussed of his works. In it, a
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''This article is about a performance of Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Twelfth Night (disambiguation)]].''
[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[Twelfth Night|''Twelfth Night'']], directed by Robert Richmond, from Ap
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...ing from the Center for Shakespeare Studies, please visit the [[Center for Shakespeare Studies program archive]].
...atherine Lutz (Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); William I. Miller (Law, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor); Zirka Z. Filipczak (A
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...he [[Center for Shakespeare Studies]], please see the article [[Center for Shakespeare Studies program archive]].
...ways in which unresolved issues of conversion and intermarriage raised in Shakespeare's play recur in a range of early modern texts, challenging stable notions o
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"The Shakespeare Papers: Paper Stocks of Shakespeare Folios, Quartos, and Octavos to 1640" ([[Folger Institute 2009–2010 long-
...rticles which, using my "mugshot and fingerprint" method and examples from Shakespeare quartos, demonstrate that paper can be used to date early imprints that lac
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[Julius Caesar|''Julius Caesar'']], directed by Robert Richmond, from Oc
*William Vaughan: Lucius
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...akes him a more interesting character than the caricature he had become to Shakespeare's contemporaries, for whom "Timonist" was a slang term for an unsociable ma
''Timon of Athens'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]] includes the wealthy, magnificent, and extravagantly generous fig
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...er” showcases the inventive magic of Teller and is a perfect night out for Shakespeare novices or for anyone looking for brilliant new insights into a classic.
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"Edmund Campion and William Shakespeare: an Uncertain Connection" ([[Folger Institute 2012–2013 short-term fellow
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[[Folger Theatre]] presented [http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/ Shakespeare's Globe's] ''[[Hamlet|Hamlet]]'' from September 8 to September 22, 2012.
...nz (Hamlet), ''Hamlet'', directed by Dominic Dromgoole and Bill Buckhurst, Shakespeare's Globe, presented by Folger Theatre, 2012. Fiona Moorhead.|alt=|center]]
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[[Category: Shakespeare adaptations]]
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...ts wide-ranging reference works that provides entry points for research on Shakespeare and a variety of topics. For more articles like this one, please consult th
''The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare'', ed. Dobson and Wells (new ed. 2015)—Folger call number: [http://hamnet
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...wit. Within this genre, ''Venus and Adonis'' was so successful that it was Shakespeare's most popular published work throughout his lifetime.
...is the willing lover of Venus, the goddess of love, and dies accidentally. Shakespeare has Adonis reject Venus—an ironic and comic development for early readers
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...ned director '''Molly Bernstein''' and '''Dr. Michael Witmore''', [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] Director, in conversation about the film. Rosamond Purcell and Dr
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...eant to assist researchers with their search for materials in the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] collection, to facilitate use of paper and electronic resources a
==Shakespeare==
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...iest tragedy and the earliest Roman play attributed to be one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]]. Titus, a model Roman, has led 21 of his 25 sons to death in Rome
...peare edition, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. © 2005 Folger Shakespeare Library.</ref>
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...allment in this celebrated series, ''Shylock is My Name'', a re-telling of Shakespeare’s [[The Merchant of Venice]] by '''Howard Jacobson'''.
...or the prize in 2014 for his novel, ''J''. Howard Jacobson’s first book, ''Shakespeare’s Magnanimity'', written with the scholar Wilbur Sanders, was a study of
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Henry VIII (disambiguation)]].''
In ''Henry VIII'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], Shakespeare presents a monarchy in crisis. Noblemen battle with Lord Chancellor Cardina
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...en Ludwig''' shared his insights into the magical romance of Shakespeare’s Shakespeare's [[A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Theatre, 2016)|''A Midsummer Night's
...tten two highly successful adaptations of ''A Midsummer Night’s Dream'': ''Shakespeare in Hollywood'' and ''Midsummer/Jersey''.
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...he World (2018)|''The Way of the World'']], a world-premiere adaptation of William Congreve's play, in an insightful pre-performance discussion.
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...akes place as Rome becomes a republic. As a minor epic (a popular genre in Shakespeare's time), it centers on figures of seemingly secondary importance: Sextus Ta
...ire for Lucrece, whom he rapes. Afterward, he reels bitter disappointment. Shakespeare then drives him from the poem, which shifts to Lucrece and her sense of sex
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...titles of Shakespeare's works. For related articles, please see [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)]].''
===This table lists various standard forms of the titles of Shakespeare's works. ===
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...icle is not to be confused with the cataloging reference article [[List of Shakespeare's works]].''
The following list of places that serve as the settings for all of Shakespeare's plays was compiled by Laura Estill when she was Assistant Professor of En
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Julius Caesar (disambiguation)]].''
...sination, seeing Brutus, a leading conspirator, as either hero or villain. Shakespeare's play keeps this debate alive.
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Shakespeareʼs timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption was reimagined in this
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...Shakespeareana in the world. But not all items in the collection relate to Shakespeare. There are hundreds of topics, including royalty, science, philosophy, hist
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Shakespeareʼs timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption was reimagined in this
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...am Shakespeare's plays]], presents a kind of story that was popular before Shakespeare began writing, tracing the fall of powerful individuals to their untimely d
...peare edition, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. © 2008 Folger Shakespeare Library.</ref>
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...ontinental collection development]], [[Art collection development]], and [[Shakespeare collection development]].</small>
...lating to the editing and performance of Shakespeare. We will consider non-Shakespeare promptbooks when they relate to Drury Lane or Covent Garden productions, or
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...a broadcast from the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company, captured from Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon, in their own [[Elizabethan Theatre]]. Th
...rship with Intel, advanced technology was used in this bold reimagining of Shakespeare’s magical play, creating an unforgettable theatrical experience.
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...ook back from this recent period of experimentation to the long history of Shakespeare on screen, inviting reflection on the place of audio-visual adaptations in
...are, and the Economy of Theatrical Experience'' (1991) and ''Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations'' (1999).
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...y turn to Hamlet as their inaugural figure. Finally, the seminar looked at Shakespeare's Hamlet--in the 1603/1604 and 1623 texts-with the purpose of identifying i
...ure'' (1996), coedited with Maureen Quilligan and Peter Stallybrass, and ''Shakespeare Verbatim: the Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus'' (1991).
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[[Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's ''[[As You Like It (disambiguation)|As You Like It]]'' , directed by Gay
...ere she discovers Orlando and a world of passion and possibility in one of Shakespeare’s most cherished romantic comedies. When she disguises herself as a man,
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===Notable items at the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]===
William Shakespeare, ''Timon of Athens'' ([New York: Johnson, Fry and Company, n.d.]). Call num
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...speare: the essential reference, p. 528 </ref> This fits with the way that Shakespeare saw her: as a stock character. The fact that "Mistress Quickly" keeps a tav
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...the earliest days of the Roman Republic, ''Coriolanus'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]] begins with the common people, or plebeians, in armed revolt agai
...peare edition, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. © 2009 Folger Shakespeare Library.</ref>
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[All's Well That Ends Well|''All's Well That Ends Well'']], directed by
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...ety and one of the foremost in the world. Prior to traveling to the Folger Shakespeare Library, Designer Bookbinders in North America was on display in Rochester,
...King Lear'']] and [[William Shakespeare's poems|''The Poems and Sonnets of Shakespeare'']].
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...literature with work in the field of intelligence, including Conyers Read, William Friedman, and Rosalie Colie.
Speaker, [[Shakespeare and the Problem of Biography (conference)|Shakespeare and the Problem of Biography]] (Conference, [[2013–2014 Folger Institute
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...of [[The Wonder of Will: 400 Years of Shakespeare]] 2016 commemoration of Shakespeare's death.
...n Jonson describes him in the preliminary material to the first edition of Shakespeare's collected works, the 1623 [[First Folios at the Folger|First Folio]]. See
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[A Midsummer Night's Dream|''A Midsummer Night's Dream'']], directed by
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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...Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity|''Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity'']].
==[[First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare]]==
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David Garrick revolutionized acting and brought new audiences to Shakespeare during his life. Discover David Garrick: actor, writer, and celebrity.
== Shakespeare's Chair ==
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...covered in 1844 at Surrenden Manor, Kent, the manuscript cuts some 3000 of Shakespeare's original text, including significant abridgment of the character of Falst
...ng Carington’s transcription.<ref>Evans, G. Blakemore. "The" Dering MS" of Shakespeare's" Henry IV" and Sir Edward Dering." ''The Journal of English and Germanic
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...i Yiu, Georgetown professor, presented a talk entitled "Richard's Kingdom, Shakespeare's Globe: Theatre, Power, and Built Space."
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''Pericles'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], tells of a prince who risks his life to win a princess, but disc
...A good production has the strong emotional effect that one associates with Shakespeare.
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(NEH) [[Gail McMurray Gibson]], William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Humanities, Davidson College
(NEH) [[Paul Menzer]], Director, Shakespeare and Performance Graduate Program, Mary Baldwin College
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=== The [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] ===
Shakespeare, William. ''The Merry Wives of Windsor''. First Folio. 1623. Call number [http://ham
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[The Comedy of Errors (disambiguation)]].''
''The Comedy of Errors'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]] is the slapstick farce of his youth. In it, the lost twin sons of
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...that we may be in the waning days of print culture? Is it possible to use Shakespeare to generate a larger critique of performance? This weekend workshop explore
...rse'' (1996), and ''Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre'' (2000).
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[King Lear (disambiguation)]].''
One of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], ''King Lear'', challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and
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''Henry VI, Part 3'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], is dominated by a struggle between two military forces, neither
...one for her son, Prince Edward. Historically, his death destroyed her, but Shakespeare wisely saves Margaret to bring her back in ''Richard III''. Richard, Duke o
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[[Folger Consort]] performed ''London: Music from the City of Shakespeare'' from September 28 to 30, 2012.
...eighbor Thomas Morley published spirited pieces for mixed instruments, and William Byrd fashioned powerful and profound music for worship. The Consort showcas
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...erto Rico, and Washington DC in 2016 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
*Young Shakespeare Players
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...a broadcast from the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company, captured from Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon, in their own [[Elizabethan Theatre]]. Th
==The Royal Shakespeare Company==
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''This article is related to the exhibition. For other uses, see [[Shakespeare's Sisters (disambiguation)]].''
...peare's Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500-1700|''Shakespeare's Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers 1500-1700'']] exhib
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In ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], Shakespeare's "merry wives" are Mistress Ford and Mistress Page of the town of Windsor.
...r torment of him. Falstaff responds with the same linguistic facility that Shakespeare gives him in the history plays in which he appears, making him the "hero" o
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...ars: The Robben Island Shakespeare|''A Book Behind Bars: The Robben Island Shakespeare'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
...atthew Hahn interviewed many of the prisoners who signed the Robben Island Shakespeare for his play, [[Robben Island Bible (Folger Theatre, 2013)|''Robben Island
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...heeldon, Artistic Associate of The Royal Ballet, created his adaptation of Shakespeare’s late great romance [[The Winter's Tale|''The Winter’s Tale'']] for Th
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''King John'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], like most of his history plays, presents a struggle for the Engl
...peare edition, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. © 2000 Folger Shakespeare Library.</ref>
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Cymbeline (disambiguation)]].''
''Cymbeline'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], tells the story of a British king, Cymbeline, and his three chil
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[The Comedy of Errors|''The Comedy of Errors'']], directed by Aaron Posn
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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...cted by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold with '''Ralph Fiennes''' as Shakespeare’s most notorious villain and '''Vanessa Redgrave''' as Queen Margaret.
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This article serves as a portal to the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] collection items associated with theatrical manager and playwrigh
.../findingaids.folger.edu/dfowinterletters.xml Autograph letters signed from William Winter to various recipients] (Folger MS Y.c.573 (1-114))
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'''''Free Folger Friday: Shakespeare and Comics''''', one of the [[Talks and Screenings at the Folger]], was hel
...e material, and just what it’s like to illustrate the words of the William Shakespeare.
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[[Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[Romeo and Juliet|''Romeo and Juliet'']], directed by Aaron Posner, comp
*William Vaughan: Romeo
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...s Awards, including, "Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production" for William Ivey Long, "Outstanding Director, Resident Play" for Robert Richmond, "Outs
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's ''[[Hamlet|Hamlet]]'', directed by Joseph Haj, composed by Jack Herrick,
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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...w out of the seminar, Religion, Resistance, and the Civil War, directed by William Lamont in 1985. That seminar was the third in a series of six inaugural Cen
...953 to 1957 when he was named Ambassador. Survivors include four children, William H. Taft IV, Maria Clemow, Martha Golden, and John T. Taft; nine grandchildr
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Was in conjunction with the Folger exhibition Churchill’s Shakespeare, on display October 6 through January 6.
Music by William Byrd (1538-1623): O magnum mysterium; From Virgin's womb/Rejoice, rejoice;
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...nglish collection development]], [[Continental collection development]], [[Shakespeare collection development]], and [[Manuscript collection development]].</small
...moving into aesthetic and "high art" considerations only when it comes to Shakespeare (an area in which we ought to be collecting as wide a range of material as
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[[Category: William Shakespeare's works]]
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[The Winter's Tale|''The Winter's Tale'']], directed by Blake Robison, c
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[The Winter's Tale (disambiguation)]].''
''The Winter's Tale'', a very late one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], is filled with improbabilities. Before the conclusion, one chara
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...espeare Library]] [[Manuscripts (disambiguation)|manuscript]], Letter from William Yelverton to Nathaniel Bacon, L.d.636, (April 9, 1604), featured in the ''[
[[Age of Lawyers|<nowiki/>]]In this letter, William Yelverton suggests that Nathaniel Bacon might grant the stewardship of his
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...elaborate stage productions and the rise of actors such as Edmund Kean and William Charles Macready. The image to the left is actor Edmund Kean dressed in the
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[Measure for Measure|''Measure for Measure'']], directed by Aaron Posner
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[The Tempest (disambiguation)]].''
Putting romance onstage, ''The Tempest'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], gives us a magician, Prospero, a former duke of Milan who was di
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What was the religion of Shakespeare's England (and of William Shakespeare himself)? And what was its culture? Did this generation still share a singl
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Love's Labor's Lost (disambiguation)]].''
At first glance, one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], the early comedy ''Love's Labor's Lost'', simply entertains and
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[Henry V|''Henry V'']], directed by Robert Richmond, from January 22 to
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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...the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, are now in the collection of the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]. See Wikipedia for a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boydell_Shake
'''William Hamilton'''
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[[Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[Richard III|''Richard III'']], directed by Robert Richmond, from Januar
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Antony and Cleopatra (disambiguation)]].''
''Antony and Cleopatra'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]] dramatizes a major event in world history: the founding of the Ro
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...formation about the Center for Shakespeare Studies, visit the [[Center for Shakespeare Studies program archive]].
...san Wabuda (Fordham University). The workshop, sponsored by the Center for Shakespeare Studies, was scheduled in conjunction with two Folger events: the [[Folger
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Twelfth Night (disambiguation)]].''
...tmas, the end of the Christmas season, ''Twelfth Night'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her
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...Shakespeare Library]] [[Manuscripts (disambiguation)|manuscript]], Will of William Meyrick, L.f.398, (April 1611 Manuscript copy), featured in the ''[[Age of
Iacobi nono I William Meyricke Parson of St Michaells
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...hers out in these particular instances of authority. This seminar explored Shakespeare’s plays for transformations of ceremonial practice, the changing theology
...Relation and Symbolic Act in York’s Play of Corpus Christi'' (2001), and ''Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness'' (2011).
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...s a portrait of Shakespeare in preparation for the opening of the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]. For more information, see this item's [http://hamnet.folger.edu/
...sly, "The Ashbourne Portrait of Shakespeare: Through the Looking Glass," ''Shakespeare Quarterly'' 44 (1993): 68.</ref>
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...Theatre|Folger Theatre]] and Two River Theater Company co-produced William Shakespeare's ''[[Macbeth|Macbeth]]'', conceived and directed by Teller and Aaron Posne
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's ''[[The Winter's Tale]]'', directed by Aaron Posner, from March 13 to Apr
Transporting us from Sicilia to Bohemia and safely home once more, Shakespeare’s spellbinding tale of jealousy, prophecy, and redemption celebrates the
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...sida'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], set during the Trojan War, Shakespeare turned to the Greek poet Homer, whose epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey
In sharp contrast, however, none of Shakespeare’s characters are exemplary. The leaders of the Greek army scheme to get t
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[The Two Gentlemen of Verona (disambiguation)]
...that its heroes are adults, ''Two Gentlemen of Verona'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], is more intelligible if we think of them as boys, leaving home f
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Richard II (disambiguation)]].''
''Richard II'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], presents a momentous struggle between Richard II and his cousin
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[Henry IV, Part 1|''Henry IV, Part 1'']], directed by Paul Mason Barnes,
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Macbeth (disambiguation)]].''
...of England. London was alive with an interest in all things Scottish, and Shakespeare turned to Scottish history for material. He found a spectacle of violence a
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...''Shakespeare Behind Bars'', ''Still Dreaming'' documents a unique take on Shakespeare's [[A Midsummer Night's Dream|''A Midsummer Night's Dream]], as performed b
...ble real characters and deeply compelling true stories. Their last film, ''Shakespeare Behind Bars'', premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, and
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...ars: The Robben Island Shakespeare|''A Book Behind Bars: The Robben Island Shakespeare'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
...rs who marked pages in ''King Lear''. David Schalkwyck writes that “Of all Shakespeare’s works [''Lear''] combines a representation of particular political form
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In ''The Merchant of Venice'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must
...face a magnificent villain, the moneylender Shylock. In creating Shylock, Shakespeare seems to have shared in a widespread prejudice against Jews. Shylock would
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...more information on celebrations related to Shakespeare's Birthday, see [[Shakespeare's Birthday (disambiguation)]]. Where available, recordings have been includ
'''2024 '''[[Patricia Akhimie]] (Director, Folger Institute),[[Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "The Goodness of the Night: Editing Othello"| "The Good
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[[Frances Bell]], Ph.D. Candidate in History, College of William and Mary
:''Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory''
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...ars: The Robben Island Shakespeare|''A Book Behind Bars: The Robben Island Shakespeare'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
...gned passage in ''Twelfth Night''. He included his name in Venkatrathnam’s Shakespeare by a passage in which Malvolio responds eagerly to what he supposed to be O
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== The James L. Harner Collection of Miniature Books Pertaining to Shakespeare ==
...e Merchant of Venice. The tallest set—twelve volumes of an 1888 edition of Shakespeare’s Works—is housed in a carved, glass-fronted wood cabinet.
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...s production took place at the Folger's Elizabethan Theatre and at Alabama Shakespeare Festival.
...eare'', directed by Darwin Knight, Folger Theatre co-produced with Alabama Shakespeare Festival, 1995. Photo by Chris Shreve.|alt=|center]]
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[As You Like It (disambiguation)]].''
Readers and audiences have long greeted ''As You Like It'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, i
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[The Taming of the Shrew (disambiguation)]].''
...marriage are the concerns of ''The Taming of the Shrew'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]]. Lucentio’s marriage to Bianca is prompted by his idealized lov
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...cause it's "the name of an inn (though not the identical one) mentioned by Shakespeare.")
...written cards]], and a scanned typewritten [[Media:Medals_list.pdf|list of Shakespeare medals]] (note: some items on the "medals" list are actually tokens).
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...98 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs|1998]]. Both seminars were led by [[William H. Sherman]].
Drawing on the collections and resources of the Folger Shakespeare Library, this introductory seminar for Master's students surveyed the textu
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Romeo and Juliet (disambiguation)]].''
In ''Romeo and Juliet'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not
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...ars: The Robben Island Shakespeare|''A Book Behind Bars: The Robben Island Shakespeare'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
[[Category: William Shakespeare's works]]
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...erto Rico, and Washington DC in 2016 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
*Delaware Shakespeare Festival
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[[Center for Shakespeare Studies program archive|Center for Shakespeare Studies]]
Keywords: History, Literature, American, History of Education, Shakespeare, Teaching, Reception
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...rkshop promises to open up new areas for studying and teaching Restoration Shakespeare by combining primary sources from the Folger’s collections (including mus
...st. He is the author of ''Shakespeare’s Victorian Stage'' (1998) and ''Not Shakespeare'' (2002) and the editor of ''Great Shakespeareans: Macready, Booth, Terry,
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's[[The Taming of the Shrew|''The Taming of the Shrew'']], directed by Aaron
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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...erto Rico, and Washington DC in 2016 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
*Kentucky Shakespeare
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Much Ado About Nothing (disambiguation)]].''
''Much Ado About Nothing'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], includes two quite different stories of romantic love. [[Hero]]
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[[Folger Theatre]] and the Capitol Riverfront BID celebrated Shakespeare's 451st Birthday with three of Hollywood's best takes on his plays for a f
...iful visuals, breathtaking performances, and a kinetic energy that brought Shakespeare’s play to a new generation.
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...e’s prison letters, writings of Luther and Calvin, excerpts from Foxe, and Shakespeare’s [[Henry VIII|''Henry VIII'']]. The seminar’s reading concluded with [
...modern Text'' (2000); ''Politique: Languages of Statecraft from Chaucer to Shakespeare'' (2005).
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...espeare Library]] [[Manuscripts (disambiguation)|manuscript]], Letter from William Bagot to Walter Bagot, L.a.182, ( February 27, 1622/3), featured in the ''[
Sir Walter Bagot's youngest son, William, who was about six when his brother Lewis died, handled his living arrangem
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's ''[[Pericles]]'', directed by Joseph Haj, music and lyrics by Jack Herric
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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...on to Nathaniel Bacon, 1604 April 9, L.d.636 | <b>L.d.636</b>: Letter from William Yelverton to Nathaniel Bacon, 1604 April 9]]
...Griffin, John Kuhn, James Lambert, Nate Probasco, Marten Stromberg (Folger Shakespeare Library, 2013).
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'''''Free Folger Friday: Crime Writers on Shakespeare''''', one of the [[Talks and Screenings at the Folger]], was held in the [[
...ssed their Shakespeare-inspired novels ''A Winsome Murder'' and ''Guarding Shakespeare''.
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:: <code> 500 Comic book adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, with selections of original dialogue incorporated into the color
*Do not add any subject headings for Shakespeare and/or the work, with or without the subdivisions ‡x Adaptations ‡v Com
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...ditions of Shakespeare's works. For related articles, please see [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)]].''
...ection of poems is prefaced by a brief introduction, by a guide to reading Shakespeare's language, and by accounts of his life and theater.
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...'s ''[[Macbeth (disambiguation)|Macbeth]],'' as adapted and amended by Sir William Davenant, with music by John Eccles and others, performed by Folger Consort
Rampant ambition and minds unhinged. Owls shrieking and prophesies foretold. Shakespeare’s ''Macbeth'' is seen anew, set in an historic London asylum for this gro
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Henry V (disambiguation)]].''
''Henry V'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], is his most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English v
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...007) and ''The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608: A Facsimile Edition of Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.b.232'' (2007).
'''Faculty''': [[Mary Robertson]], the William A. Moffett Chief Curator of Manuscripts at the Huntington Library, author o
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (disambiguation)|
In ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are fig
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''This article is about a poetry reading in response to Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Richard III (disambiguation)]].''
[[Category: Before & After: Poets Respond to Shakespeare]]
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Richard III (disambiguation)]].''
In ''Richard III'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], Shakespeare invites us on a moral holiday. The play draws us to identify with Richard a
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...erto Rico, and Washington DC in 2016 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
*''Shakespeare Redesigned'' - August 25, 2016 – December 1, 2016
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::<pre>245 00 ‡a Laurence Olivier presents "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare.</pre>
* Add a 700 name-title heading for the Shakespeare play on which an adaptation is based (i.e., ''Taming of the shrew'' for ''K
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...e is about Shakespeare collection development. For related articles, see [[Shakespeare collection (disambiguation)]].'' <small>See also: our general [[Collection
The [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] seeks primary source materials and reference works related to Sha
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...ould include a name-title heading for "Works." Prospectuses for individual
Shakespeare plays should include their appropriate name-title heading.
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[[Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's ''[[Timon of Athens]]'', directed by Robert Richmond, from May 9 to June
...[[Henry V (Folger Theatre, 2013)|Henry V]]</em> at Folger Theatre) directs Shakespeare’s tragic satire about the fickleness of prosperity, with Helen Hayes Awar
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[[Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'', directed by Robert Richmond, from October
...fair with Cleopatra, Antony finds himself engaged in both war and romance. Shakespeare’s epic encompasses politics and power, love and jealousy, alliance and mi
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...highlights a 1970 edition of ''The Alexander Text of the Complete Works of Shakespeare'' that circulated throughout the Robben Island prison in South Africa from
== List of Shakespeare's works with signatures ==
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Henry IV, Part 1 (disambiguation)]].''
...relationships are at the center of ''Henry IV, Part 1'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]]. King Henry IV and Prince Hal form one major father-son pair, wit
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...ear, this wide-ranging, often unexpected display draws from our unequalled Shakespeare holdings.
...n us in exploring four frequent ways of encountering the Bard: fixating on Shakespeare, printing his works, performing his plays, and depicting the man and his ch
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...ce, [[User:GeorgiannaZiegler|Georgianna Ziegler]], curated ''Personalizing Shakespeare'' for [[The Curatorial Eye: Discoveries from the Folger Vault]], one of the
...in the [[Folger Shakespeare Library|Folger Library’s]] large collection of Shakespeare editions.
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This article features a transcription of a [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] [[Manuscripts (disambiguation)|manuscript]], Oath of a Serjeant a
...ants resigned from their inn of court and typically joined Serjeants' Inn. William Lambarde, one of the first legal antiquarians, collected this serjeant's oa
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''"Golden Lads & Lasses": Shakespeare for Children,'' one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]] opened on January
Where did you first encounter [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)|Shakespeare]]? Were you in a theater, seeing a play? Were you acting out a scene in sch
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...lington. The exhibition [http://shop.folger.edu/store/165027%21165/Catalog+Shakespeare+in+America catalog] can be purchased from the Folger Shop.
William Shakespeare has had, and continues to have, a profound influence on American culture, e
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...n Shakespeare's England|''Symbols of Honor: Heraldry and Family History in Shakespeare's England'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
: ''Heralds and Heraldry in Shakespeare’s England''. Edited by Nigel Ramsay. Donington, Lincolnshire: Shaun Tyas,
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[[Category: William Shakespeare's works]]
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...phy and Digital Imaging team, past and present, including Julie Ainsworth, William Davis, Melanie Leung, and Christine Naulty.
...ng transcription effort. A dedicated group of volunteers from Zooniverse's Shakespeare's World, the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective (EMROC), Folger docents
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see'' [[Othello (disambiguation)]].
...s with elopement and mutual devotion and ends with jealous rage and death. Shakespeare builds many differences into his hero and heroine, including race, age, and
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...Prince Henry” in this copy of Cicero's writings from 1502; see the [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=207537 Hamnet record] for more inform
...lum, and were almost certainly studied some decades later by young William Shakespeare in the village grammar school at Stratford-upon-Avon. (His opinion of the e
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...r director of research at the Folger Shakespeare Library, former editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, and former chair of the Folger Institute, passed away on Novembe
...ader, and a teacher, she pursued this work with an unending enthusiasm for Shakespeare’s plays and poems and their continuing impact on our world.
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* [[Shakespeare's the Thing exhibition material|''Shakespeare's the Thing'' exhibition material]] (includes small amount of text with cas
* '''ex.1''': Salvador Dali. Etching from ''Much Ado about Shakespeare''. Cadaquès: Editions Graphiques Internationales, 1970. Call number: [http
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...discourse analysis has developed beyond speech-act theory, whether reading Shakespeare’s performative utterance as passionate action, cognitive processing, or d
...o rethink Shakespeare’s language historically, and an edition of [[William Shakespeare’s sonnets]].
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...eaking in Shakespeare’s plays. The plays discussed will cover the range of Shakespeare’s work: [[Henry V|''Henry V]], [[Julius Caesar|''Julius Caesar'']], [[Mea
[[Category: William Shakespeare's works]]
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The following list represents manuscript materials from the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] collection that have been transcribed on [[Folgerpedia]]. Transcr
:[[Letter from William Bagot (Walter's son), Oxford, to Walter Bagot, 1619 November 7, L.a.176]]
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...of York with assistance from Ron Bogdan, Senior Cataloger at the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]].
..., in turn, provided the inspiration for the pioneering modern code-breaker,William F. Friedman—chief cryptanalyst for the U.S. government from the 1920s to
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[[Category: William Shakespeare's works]]
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[[Folger Theatre|Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', directed by Aaron Posner, from January
It is easy to lose yourself in the enchanted woods of Shakespeare’s timeless romantic tale. This magical comedy of tangled lovers, mischiev
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...amlet'' as it was thought out by William Shakespeare. (Even though many of Shakespeare's plays have antecedents in folklore and some concurrent writings, they are
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[[Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's ''[[King John]],'' directed by Aaron Posner, from October 23rd 2018 to De
[[File:King John 005 TW web.jpg|center|thumb|800x800px|The cast of Shakespeare’s political power play ''King John'' at Folger Theatre. Photo by Teresa
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This article provides rough estimates of the size of the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]'s entire collection.
...ibs with bib format a* and “Shakespeare, William...” but not “Shakespeare, William...(Spirit)” as main entry; unsuppressed mfhds for ditto: 13,936; 2,250 un
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[[File:V.b.217 pg. 1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Possible portrait of herald William Smith in ''Alphabet or blazon of arms'', 1597. Folger Digital Image [http:/
''Symbols of Honor: Heraldry and Family History in Shakespeare's England'', one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]], was on display in th
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...ding the the "First Folio" of 1623. At the time, all were thought to be by Shakespeare. The Folger collection includes one bound-together set in its original bind
...ladelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library, 2021).
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...erto Rico, and Washington DC in 2016 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
*Shakespeare and Autism Project, Ohio State University
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:Shakespeare Association of America-Folger Institute Fellow
[[William Cavert]], Associate Professor, History, The University of St. Thomas
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...a book, ''The Royal Play of Macbeth; When, Why, and How It Was Written by Shakespeare''.<ref>New York: Macmillan, 1950. [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrec
===Relationship with the Folger Shakespeare Library===
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This event took place on December 12th 2011 at 7:30 in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
...wship, and a Mildred and Harold Strauss Living; she has also delivered the William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization at Harvard
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...ars: The Robben Island Shakespeare|''A Book Behind Bars: The Robben Island Shakespeare'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
[[Category: William Shakespeare's works]]
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:"The Nineteenth-Century Shakespeare Dramaturg: William Winter and Horace Howard Furness"
:"Visualizing Variation in Shakespeare and Early Modern Books"
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''This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see [[Hamlet (disambiguation)]].''
''Hamlet'' one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]] and perhaps his most popular, and most puzzling. It follows the f
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...gically, and, when available, the [http://www.folger.edu/store/sd4/product/shakespeare-in-american-life-1372.cfm catalog] entry number is included before the Call
* William Shakespeare. ''The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice''. Souvenir promptbook. [S.l.
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...as they discuss special highlights featured in [[Shakespeare's the Thing|''Shakespeare's the Thing'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
== A Famous Forgery ([[Shakespeare's the Thing exhibition material#The Great Shakespeare Forger (case 1)|case 1]]) ==
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...tweets that have used the hashtag #Shax450 on Twitter to celebrate William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday.
Learn more about additional web archiving activities at the Folger Shakespeare Library [[Web_archiving|here]].
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...ars: The Robben Island Shakespeare|''A Book Behind Bars: The Robben Island Shakespeare'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
Sonny Venkatrathnam and Kadir Hassim signed the Robben Island Shakespeare on the title page and p. ix of the introduction, respectively. By not selec
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...sponsors, guests, and donors, we raised more than $360,000 for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s educational and cultural mission.
...imonials from teachers around the country who participated in our Teaching Shakespeare Institute. The whole program was a moving tribute to the Folger's work with
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...eenth-century first editions of American and British authors, the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] has at least six of his works, ranging from 1556 to 1664.<ref> Se
...Shirley, ''The Maides Revenge, a Tragedy.'' London: T[homas]. C[otes]. for William Cooke, 1639 [i.e. 1640]. [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BB
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...Arms and Armor in Shakespeare|''Now Thrive the Armorers: Arms and Armor in Shakespeare'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
During William Shakespeare's lifetime (1564-1616), the way that wars were fought and the kinds of weap
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...of [[The Wonder of Will: 400 Years of Shakespeare]] 2016 commemoration of Shakespeare's death
...n the English language. As household names and literary celebrities, both Shakespeare and Austen are on a “first-name basis” with the reading public.
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:"Shakespeare and the Cultures of Commemoration"
:"Shakespeare’s Play of Credit"
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...sites using the [[Archive-It]] subscription service since 2011. The Folger Shakespeare Library web collections can be accessed [https://archive-it.org/organizatio
...the Internet Archive and [http://web.archive.org/web/20130906212613/http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/ is made accessible via the Wayback Machine].
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...12, 2014. ''Here is a Play Fitted'', a backstage tour of four centuries of Shakespeare in performance, takes its name from [http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/?cha
...']], and ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. Along the way, it reveals how much Shakespeare has changed on stage in every era, from Restoration rewrites to a nineteent
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Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare
...eas of the Folger Shakespeare Library, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world!
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...ions of Shakespeare in the Folger collections. For related articles, see [[Shakespeare collection (disambiguation)]].''
...th 178 Quarto editions (as recorded in ESTC, for further information see [[Shakespeare Quartos at the Folger]]), 82 First Folios (for more information see [[First
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''This article is about the poetry seminar. For other uses, see [[Shakespeare's Sisters (disambiguation)]].''
[[File:Shakespeare's Sisters OB Hardison 2007.jpeg|350px|right|thumb|Shakespeare's Sisters Class of 2007.]]
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We are working to digitize [[Recipe books at the Folger Shakespeare Library|every manuscript recipe book in our collection]]: these images are
...freely available and can be repurposed with acknowledgement of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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...ars: The Robben Island Shakespeare|''A Book Behind Bars: The Robben Island Shakespeare'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
...open lines of Kathrada’s selection are some of the most familiar lines of Shakespeare:
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...rder=ASC&sort_by=field_collection_sort_order Autograph letters signed from William Booth, London, to John Booth, 1628-1647 (bulk 1628-1629)]
...rder=ASC&sort_by=field_collection_sort_order Autograph letters signed from William Winter to various recipients, 1864-1917]
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This event took place on May 7th 2011 at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
The judges—Laura Furman, William Kittredge, and Helena Maria Viramontes—considered approximately 320 novel
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...why authors such as Edmund Spenser, Robert Greene, John Harington, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and Philip Massinger reject the infidel conversion motif to
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''Editing Shakespeare's Othello''
[[Emily King]], Assistant Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Louisiana State University
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...ign with an exhibition of more than 100 rare items drawn from the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]], the largest repository of materials by and about Elizabeth in th
...y will remember her 1997 Folger exhibition, [[Shakespeare's Unruly Women|''Shakespeare's Unruly Women'']].
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...ls. The Folger also holds a significant collection of facsimile and forged Shakespeare signatures. The Folger held a 2003 exhibition entitled ''[https://folgerped
===William Henry Ireland===
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...ndividually, and they were later issued as ''Obras Dramaticas de Guillermo Shakespeare'' part of the ''Biblioteca Clásica'' series. Constituting 23 plays in eigh
...ing other titles at this time, but if this reconstruction is accurate, the Shakespeare volumes seemed to sell well, with the second edition starting the same year
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[[Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[Henry IV, Part 1|1 Henry IV]], directed by Rosa Joshi, from September 3
*William Shakespeare, Playwright
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Halliwell began collecting while still at William Henry Butler's school in Brighton. By 1839, at the age of 19, Halliwell had
...akespearean publications included the monumental ''Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare'' (published six times between 1881 and 1887) and a number of shorter pamph
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...the persistent doctrinal ambiguities found in such sources as the plays of Shakespeare, the poetry of Donne and Milton, the polemics of the English Civil War, and
...slapstick of ''Tamburlaine'' and ''Doctor Faustus''. By contrast, many of Shakespeare's plays reflect unease in the face of "maimed rites" and nostalgia for trad
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This event happened on September 22nd 2008 at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
...a neurologist, died of leukemia in his late 50s. Bank attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges,and has an MFA from Cornell University.
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...he Bookshops in Paul's Cross Churchyard'' (1990), and ''The First Folio of Shakespeare'' (1991). He is currently working on a history of the Stationers' Company t
...akespeare and the Shapes of Time'' (1982), a General Editor of ''The Arden Shakespeare'', 3rd series, and, with Peter Stallybrass, editor of ''Staging the Renaiss
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...oes from defacement by radical iconoclasts. (cf. S. Schoenbaum's ''William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life''. Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1975, 30–31.)
...use of images in worship. One example of the latter is the Puritan divine William Perkins' ''A Warning Against the Idolatrie of the Last Times''. In this inf
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...descriptive list of each piece included in the [[Shakespeare's the Thing|''Shakespeare's the Thing'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
...akespeare|Performing Shakespeare]]; and [[#Depicting Shakespeare|Depicting Shakespeare]].
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...tre of Harlem, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Third Rail Projects and other theaters across the country. Folger
...' (Folger Theatre, 2002)]], [[Shakespeare's R & J (Folger Theatre, 2000)|''Shakespeare’s R & J'' (Folger Theatre, 2000)]], [[Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Thea
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...s works (disambiguation)|William Shakespeare]], Christopher Marlowe, and [[Shakespeare's Sisters exhibition item list#English Women as Professional Playwrights (c
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...orks are ''Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon'' (2010), ''Is Milton better than Shakespeare?'' (2008), the Longman Annotated English Poets edition of ''Andrew Marvell�
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...ars: The Robben Island Shakespeare|''A Book Behind Bars: The Robben Island Shakespeare'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
...prisoners made their signatures in the back of the ''Collected Works'', by Shakespeare’s sonnets. J. Nzuza and Don Davies selected sonnets 25 and 30, respective
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== Shakespeare and Ireland ==
...imself. However, Ireland appears in several of his plays. It is clear that Shakespeare knew about Ireland and wanted to write about it.
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...in theatre and music to investigate how and why Restoration adaptations of Shakespeare succeeded in performance in their own time (i.e., 1660-1714) and how and wh
...val performance recording will be made available to scholars at the Folger Shakespeare Library and to the general public in the two repositories of the [http://ww
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...ars: The Robben Island Shakespeare|''A Book Behind Bars: The Robben Island Shakespeare'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
...nd signatures in Front Matter and The Tempest#Front Matter|Venkatrathnam’s Shakespeare]], Gqirana selected a passage from ''As You Like It'': the Duke’s celebra
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...ars: The Robben Island Shakespeare|''A Book Behind Bars: The Robben Island Shakespeare'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
...nt commentator on his situation, was unlikely to have missed the nuance of Shakespeare’s placing this sage advice from father to son within the context of entra
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...to make something attractive and useful. Other items have no connection to Shakespeare or Shakesperae's era at all, and were purely decorative, such as the "Antiq
* "A group of American manufactured William and Mary style slipseat side chairs consisting of two armcharis and 11 side
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...pted from
Shakespeare, it appears in the "Name" field. For works ''about''
Shakespeare, it appears in the "Subject" field.
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William, 1564-1616 ‡x Homes and haunts ‡v Pictorial works </pre>
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...Shakespeareana in the world. But not all items in the collection relate to Shakespeare. There are hundreds of topics, including royalty, science, philosophy, hist
1a) William Davison. ''A Descriptive and historical view of Alnwick, etc.'' Alnwick: 18
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...ars: The Robben Island Shakespeare|''A Book Behind Bars: The Robben Island Shakespeare'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
Mandela’s signature in Venkatrathnam’s Shakespeare is penned next to this speech:
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...t Grave Digger, Priest'', [[Hamlet (Shakespeare's Globe, 2012)|''Hamlet'' (Shakespeare's Globe, 2012)]]
...Travelling Shakespeare Company, 1995)|''Richard III'' (with the Travelling Shakespeare Company, 1995)]]
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...Room]] at the Folger. For more information about paintings at the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]], please consult the article [[List of paintings at the Folger in
...as his mother begs him to make peace with Rome (not standing, as he is in Shakespeare’s original text). || 76.5 x 64.3 cm || [[File:FPa33.jpg|thumb|[http://ham
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''This article is about the exhibition. For other uses, see [[Shakespeare's Sisters (disambiguation)]].''
...lger collection, with additional rare materials from other institutions, ''Shakespeare’s Sisters'' presents a far more complex—and fascinating—reality.
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...tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Shakespeare WikiProject: Shakespeare] page (maintained by a group of Wikipedia editors; not connected with the F
The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:William_Shakespeare William Shakespeare] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Early_Modern_period Early Mode
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:Santorio Santorio ''in the Manuscripts of the Folger Shakespeare Library (1607-1658)''
:''Shakespeare in Multimedia Translation''
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[[Phillip Emanuel]], Ph.D. Candidate in History, College of William & Mary
:Wartime Shakespeare: Performing Narratives of Conflict
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= '''''Age of Lawyers''': The Roots of American Law in Shakespeare's Britain'' =
...Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Early Modern Books and Prints at the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]], with the academic expertise of Erin Kidwell, Curator of Legal Hi
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[[Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's [[Love's Labor's Lost]], directed by Vivienne Benesch, from March 16th 20
...d keep their monastic vows—or surrender to the charms of the opposite sex? Shakespeare’s delicious play is full of lovers and clowns, foolery and the follies of
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''Fame, Fortune, & Theft: The Shakespeare First Folio'', one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]], opened June 3, 201
...Over a third of the world’s copies reside within the walls of the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]], having been collected by Henry Clay Folger between 1893 and 1928
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[[Debra Ann Byrd]], Producing Artistic Director & Classical Actress, Harlem Shakespeare Festival, Artist-in-Residence
''Shakespeare & Latinidad: The Staging of Intracultural Theatre''
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...ry) and Stuart Sillars (University of Bergen) with LuEllen DeHaven (Folger Shakespeare Library).
Shakespeare proved especially attractive to grangerizers thanks to the variety of editi
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...recto.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The recto of the final concord between William Shakespeare and Hercules Underhill, Gent. 1602. Folger Digital Image [http://luna.folge
...monplace books, emblem books, and prose works of individuals as diverse as Shakespeare and Dickens, Henry VIII and Buffalo Bill, John Donne and Mark Twain, and Ap
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:“Shakespeare and World Cinema”
:“Seeing through Shakespeare: Visual Culture and Performance in England, 1660–1960”
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The Folger Shakespeare Library hosts an annual evening of readings in celebration of the year's wi
*[[William Kennedy & Thomas Mallon (2013)]]
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...plays initially reflected the concerns of an expanding early modern world, Shakespeare soon emerged as a voice and an icon of empire and Englishness. He is now th
...a greatly enhanced understanding of the varied roles and contexts in which Shakespeare may be studied—and of the new resources available to bring those historie
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...mpted—from but helps establish many of the radical changes Garrick made to Shakespeare’s play (PROMPT Ham. 16). In working on this version, Garrick did not use
===Shakespeare promptbooks digitized by Adam Matthew===
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[[William Thomas Smedley]]: Former owner of Folger items, blank
===Shakespeare's plays, more generally===
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...of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts'' sale. The Folger Shakespeare Library acquired forty five at the sale and through Sotheby's immediately a
''' 125. ''' Burghley, (William Cecil) ALS to the Earl of Essex, concerning Sir Walter Raleigh, 21 May, 159
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...day Sonnet Contest. For other articles about Shakespeare's Birthday, see [[Shakespeare's Birthday (disambiguation)]].''
...926.jpeg|250px|right|thumb|Alberto Sangorski. Songs and Sonnets by William Shakespeare. Manuscript, 1926. Call number [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/h3352
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...trates the rise and fall of two of the most notorious Shakespeare forgers, William Henry Ireland and John Payne Collier.
...sie.'' London: John Kingstone and Henry Sutton, 1555. Call number: [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=159530 STC 3197 copy 2].
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...e is often colloquially referred to as "Mr. Folger" by staff of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
...ard in 1923, and retired in 1928. He was well-known in the company for his Shakespeare collecting.
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...l Studies''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=129625&_ga=2.118389001.1272375871.149
'''William H. Sherman''', University of Maryland at College Park
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...ions published before 1641. View images of quartos and learn more at the [[Shakespeare Quartos Archive]].
*Folger = Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
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...canus's ''A Geographical Historie of Africa'' (London, 1600). Encompassing Shakespeare's time as it does, the early period of colonization is illuminated by the F
...sh Empire''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=191252&_ga=2.112694532.1272375871.149
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:2. ''Ellen Terry as Beatrice [in Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing]''
...ofessional partnership with Sir Henry Irving, with whom she worked on many Shakespeare productions, playing opposite him in roles such as Juliet, Lady Macbeth, Op
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[[Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's ''[[The Merry Wives of Windsor]]'', directed by Aaron Posner, from Januar
...sson he won’t soon forget. The comedic comeuppance is an absolute treat in Shakespeare’s delightful comedy on love, money, deception, and the wiles of women.
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...programming to computer science students using assignments that engage the Shakespeare Corpus. Parts of the original text were taken directly from Brian’s previ
...and Digital Humanities in general. Listed below are some reasons why the Shakespeare Corpus is particularly suited towards the task, for computer science instru
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...VIII'']], or ''All is True''. This is the play that was being performed at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre when it burned down in 1613. One of the cannons used for a
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...eris, Richard. ''An Annotated Catalogue of Music Manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C''. Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 2005.
:[[Ross Duffin|Duffin, Ross]]. ''Shakespeare's Songbook''. New York: Norton, 2004.
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...lger’s institutional mission: to understand, appreciate, and contextualize Shakespeare's writings, and to preserve and provide access to our collections, both now
...nt includes materials related to the history of theatrical performance and Shakespeare editing, both analog and digital, in all languages. It includes printed and
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...24 plate 14.jpg|thumb|right|340px|''Olivia'' from ''The Graphic Gallery of Shakespeare's Heroines'', 1896. Folger Digital Image [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servl
...is B. Thalheimer Associate Librarian and Head of Reference at the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]].
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Folger Consort is the early music ensemble-in-residence at the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]. Founding Artistic Directors Robert Eisenstein and Christopher Ke
...io broadcasts, and unique collaborations with other programs of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Folger Consort won the Best Classical Chamber Ensemble award from
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...oldings of three editions of ''The Mothers Blessing'' held by the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]].
...d under the earl of Essex at Cadiz. They had three sons, George, John, and William.<ref>“Leigh, Dorothy (d. in or before 1616),” Jocelyn Catty in Oxford D
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...book labels, armorials, and binding stamps link texts to their owners from William Caxton to Langston Hughes. Its title is taken from a line writ large in Hen
...re College in English Literature and completed his graduate studies at the Shakespeare Institute (England) and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). After receiving a
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This article features a transcription of a [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] [[Manuscripts (disambiguation)|manuscript]], Allowance to Thomas
William Staunton Minst''er'' x<sup>li</sup> <br>
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...ogether to build the collection that became the foundation of the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]. The Folgers took as their purview all things Shakespearean—the
====The Shakespeare Folios====
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...r, scholar, and educator who served as the second director of the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]].
...nt of Amherst College, Charles W. Cole.<ref>Stephen H. Grant, ''Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
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This article features a transcription of a [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] [[Manuscripts (disambiguation)|manuscript]],Treatises on English
and confessor and of William the conqueror
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Wills, Garry. ''Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare’s'' Macbeth. New York: New York Public Library: Oxford University Press,
[[Category: William Shakespeare's works]]
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Celebrating William Shakespeare's 450th Birthday
...00 for Folger Shakespeare Library’s programs, which bring the very best in Shakespeare education and performance to schoolchildren, scholars, and audiences in the
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...between an entity and a work, expression, manifestation, or item - William Shakespeare is the ''author'' of ''Hamlet'', August Wilhelm von Schlegel is a ''transl
<code>100 1 ‡a Shakespeare, William, ‡d 1564-1616, ‡e author. </code><br>
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[https://www.roundhousetheatre.org/ Round House Theatre] produced William Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'', directed by Aaron Posner and Teller, in collaboration wi
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...thy Lundy, Kirsten Mendoza, Colin Rydell, Jenny Smith, Margaret Smith, and William Thompson, who participated in the [https://www.newberry.org/07052016-2016-m
...emporary religious developments, and reflections about the life of William Shakespeare, among other topics.
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...tings in the [[Art collection development|art collection]] at the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]. These paintings in particular were the focus of "Appendix III: D
...limited space for exhibition. The later financial collapse of the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and the subsequent dispersal of its collection could not
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...scripts produced is evidenced by the number that still remain—the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] acquires approximately forty to fifty manuscripts annually, inclu
...saved for enjoyment again. Early seventeenth century manuscript copies of Shakespeare’s writings are extraordinarily rare.
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...sponsored by the [[Folger Institute]] or its two centers, the [[Center for Shakespeare Studies]] and the [[Center for the History of British Political Thought]].
...l Studies''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=129625 Z1003.5.G7 B69 2002]
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...tp://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=337227 ''Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
...h hangs in the Old Reading Room at the Folger Shakespeare Library. [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=128751 Hamnet record for FPb58].]]
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[[File:Y.d.295.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Ticket to John Boydell's Shakespeare lottery, 1804-1805. Folger Digital Image [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servl
''Marketing Shakespeare: the Boydell Gallery, 1789–1805, & Beyond'', one of the [[Exhibitions at
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==Cryptography in Shakespeare's Time==
In addition to leaving secret codes in Shakespeare's plays (a theory that has proven unfounded), famous politician Sir Francis
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...tings in the [[Art collection development|art collection]] at the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]. All paintings and their locations can be found in [[Hamnet]], in
...('''Macbeth''' IV.1) || 1829 || Oil on panel || 19.7 x 23. 7 cm || [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=128755/ FPa1] || [http://luna.folger.
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''Shakespeare, Past and President'', a [[Pop-up exhibitions at the Folger|pop-up exhibiti
...d more from [https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-american-presidents-and-shakespeare The White House Historical Association].
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...ladelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library, 2021). For Goodman's date of death, see ''The Gentleman's Magazine
...hd. give it to my friend Mr. Garmer, who was collecting Quarto Editions of Shakespeare plays. I accordingly sent it dow[n] [t]o him at Cambridge, but whe[n] [h]e
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[[Folger Shakespeare Library]] holdings cover a wide range of material types related to the Amer
*[[America's Shakespeare]] (Folger Exhibition, 2016)
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...as type that imitated handwriting, known as black letter. In this [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=169843 16th century primer], printed
...t/s/4edirf preliminary leaves] of their 1623 [[First folio on display]] of Shakespeare's works.
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...play is used to mock different people or situations; in others, different Shakespeare plays are used to poke fun at the same person.
''The rival Richards or Sheakspear [sic] in danger'' (William Heath, 1814). Folger [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=2
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[[Folger Theatre]] produced William Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', directed by Victor Malana Maog, in associa
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...rbara Donagan]] (Huntington Library), [[Tim Harris]] (Brown University), [[William Lamont]] (University of Sussex), [[Lesley Le Claire]] (Worcester College, O
...ed in England between 1470 and 1700 or with manuscripts held by the Folger Shakespeare Library either in collection or on film (as, for instance, the State Papers
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...r widowhood, Wroth bore two children, Katherine and William, to her cousin William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, with whom she had been involved for some tim
...th also had a loose connection to Marriott and Grismand through her cousin William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke. Herbert patronized poet and satirist George
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For more information on Ben Jonson’s books at the Folger see the Folger Shakespeare Library blog, [http://collation.folger.edu/2016/10/ben-jonsons-library/ The
**Martin, Christopher. “Retrieving Jonson’s Petrarch,” ''Shakespeare Quarterly'' 45 (1994): 89-92.
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...io! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare|''First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare'']] January 4, 2016 – January 2, 2017 (50 States and 2 territories)
* ''[[America's Shakespeare: The Bard Goes West]]'' November 17, 2016 – February 26, 2017 (Los Angele
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...rship with the Bard Graduate Center and the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Board Room'''
...folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=127646 Small circular porcelain box: William Henry West Betty]
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...ibrary catalogs like [[Hamnet]]. Starting in the early 2000s, the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] began converting its paper-based finding aids into electronic for
...from different generations of the family: the first contains letters from William Booth (b. 1602) to his brother, John Booth (1584-1659), and the second comp
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...selected digital resources—arranged by type—available through the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]].
...ontains information from approximately 170 prompt-books for productions of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. These productions range from the seventeenth century to
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...illipps created and/or gathered throughout his career mainly pertaining to Shakespeare's life, residences, friends, family, and literary predecessors. These scrap
| Y.d.1120 || || Actors in Shakespeare's Plays ||
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*On 2-5 April 2015, at the Shakespeare Association of America meeting in Vancouver, BC, '''Joe Loewenstein''' will
...-2015, '''Brett Hirsch''' will enjoy a short-term fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library to work on his Bibliography of Editions of Early English Drama (BEE
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...ley’s ''A Caveatt for the City of London'' is available through the Folger Shakespeare Library’s digital image database, LUNA.
...eatre, 1530–1660''. Edited by [[Glynne Wickham]], [[Herbert Berry]], and [[William Ingram]]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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...y to a destination that is both very new and very familiar: the Ireland of Shakespeare's time, from the sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century.
...English at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, teaching Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. He is the author of ''Spenser’s Irish Work: P
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...outmustard.net/docs/siy2014.pdf "'Mingled Yarn': The State of Computing in Shakespeare 2.0,"] in ''Digital Shakespeares'', ed. Brett D. Hirsch and Hugh Craig, spe
[http://cwso.blogs.brynmawr.edu/ Cambridge World Shakespeare Online] (2009–present; Open Access/Subscription)
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...erials, as well as some personnel, including the Library's first director, William Adams Slade, second director [[Joseph Quincy Adams]] and one of the founder
;L04:Folger Shakespeare Library Interior and Exterior
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This article features a transcription of a [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] [[Manuscripts (disambiguation)|manuscript]], An Ephemeris of the
This is William Lambarde's signed journal of eight years of his work as justice of the peac
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...he handpress era, and [[Shakespeare collection development |acquisition of Shakespeare-related almanacs]] from the modern era.
245 04 The Shakespeare almanac for 1894.
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| Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. ''Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies :
| Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. ''Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies :
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| Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. ''Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies :
| Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. ''Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies :
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...by Steve Mentz of St. John’s University with Carol Brobeck of the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]].
...ated topics. He was the recipient of a short-term fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library which, he reveals in his book’s acknowledgments, “contains more
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...e Artistic Director Ryan Brown, and included a conversation between Folger Shakespeare Library Director Michael Witmore and 2014-2015 Folger Institute Fellow Dr.
''Considerations humbly offered for taking the oath of allegiance to King William and Queen Mary.''<br/>
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...anks to “Time’s scythe.” Utilizing the traditional motifs for each season, Shakespeare seemingly wants to harvest some of the youthfulness of his sonnet’s subje
*William Faithorne. ''A perpetuall ephemeris, or, table shewing the day of the month
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...k print illustrates "The ballad of Titus Andronicus," a short rendering of Shakespeare's play with all the gory plot points. Written in the first person from Titu
...ar, as she was seen to be truly English, in direct opposition to the Dutch William. This book, like several others published at the time, claims to reveal the
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'''[[Shakespeare and the Problem of Biography (conference)|Shakespeare and the Problem of Biography]]'''
...nti-Biography,” Brian Cummings will assay the problem of writing a life of Shakespeare.
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...rom William Bagot to Walter Bagot, 1622/3 February 27, L.a.182|Letter from William Bagot, Inner Temple, to Walter Bagot]]. Manuscript, February 27, 1622/3. Ca
[[Letter from William Yelverton to Nathaniel Bacon, 1604 April 9|Letter from William Yelverton to Nathaniel Bacon]]. Manuscript, August 9, 1604. L.d.636; Displa
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...ortrait].<ref>William L. Pressly, ''A catalogue of paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library : "as imagination bodies forth"'' (New Haven: Yale University Press
...'s death in 1936. The younger Plimpton bequeathed the work to the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]], but, through an arrangement with the Library, was possessed by h
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...of Staging Shakespeare|''Here Is a Play Fitted: Four Centuries of Staging Shakespeare'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
...ix of the plays were printed together in the [[Fame, Fortune, & Theft: The Shakespeare First Folio|First Folio]] in 1623. Several quarto plays vary significantly
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...limpton "Sieve" portrait of Queen Elizabeth I,'' 1579 is one of the Folger Shakespeare Library's most treasured works of art. The painting shows us what the queen
==Elizabeth I & Shakespeare==
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...tation to the works of art on display in the reading rooms at the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] from the 1990s to 20202. For more information on the paintings, c
1790 (for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery)''
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...r]], celebrated the arrival of two magnificent collections at the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]. The exhibition opened on July 15, 1998 and closed on October 24,
...d in books over several centuries. The collection was a gift to the Folger Shakespeare Library from Champion International, who with Sotheby's Inc., New York, sup
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* [[Shakespeare and Medieval Drama]]
[[William Robert]], Syracuse University
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...Paula McDowell]], [[Ann Moss]], [[Annabel Patterson]], [[Joad Raymond]], [[William H. Sherman]], [[Peter Stallybrass]], and [[Steven Zwicker]].
...nd the Shapes of Time'' (1982), ''Shakespeare after Theory'' (1999), and ''Shakespeare and the Book ''(2001).
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...sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. Dancing notation, feast menus, Shakespeare-themed games, coronations, and fireworks all come together to depict the ma
...available. Featured in Folger exhibition [[Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England|Fools and Fricassees]].
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== Why Shakespeare and Medieval Drama? ==
...nnovations of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The relationship between Shakespeare and medieval drama illuminates the complex theatrical milieu of late mediev
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*[[Catherine Belsey|Belsey, Catherine]].'' Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: the Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Cul
...hing the ‘shard-bone Beetle’ Crux: a Hard Case with a Few Pat Readings.” ''Shakespeare Quarterly'' 56, no. 4 (2005).
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...with Scottish characters). It was assembled by music printer and composer William Henderson (1831-1891) some time before 1889. Henry and Emily Folger purchas
...ical series: Series 1: "Music on the British stage" (Mus 1-23), Series 2: "Shakespeare" (Sh 1-23), Series 3: "Waverley" (W 1-15), and Series 4: "Scotch plays" (Sc
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...erly’s'' special issue on Prison Writing, edited by William H. Sherman and William J. Sheils (2009); “Staging New Worlds: Place and ''Le Theatre de Neptune'
...appointed Head of Reader Services in 1986. She has been a contributor to ''Shakespeare Magazine'' and was co-editor with Thomas Gravell of ''American Watermarks,
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...823 and 1861(?). Plays ranged from early modern playwrights (nearly all of Shakespeare's plays are included) to contemporary authors. Playbooks were primarily sol
:154. William Tell
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...ersality and historicity of emotion remains an open one. This [[Center for Shakespeare Studies]] seminar is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. With vis
...atherine Lutz (Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); William I. Miller (Law, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor); Zirka Z. Filipczak (A
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...e. These resources are the materials themselves-the holdings of the Folger Shakespeare Library, to begin with, but also the modem printed editions and the growing
'''William Quinn,''' Professor of English at the University of Arkansas
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::—William F. Friedman, "Saying it in Cipher" (1920)
...Friedmans quickly lost faith in this theory and moved to Washington, where William ran the Signals Intelligence Service and Elizebeth worked for the Coast Gua
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...rticle offers a comprehensive list of each piece included in ''[[America's Shakespeare]]'', one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
...s and King Lear.” “Shakespeare’s black? Not yet.” “It is of the heart that Shakespeare speaks.”
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...ents of navigation).'' London: John Charlewood, 1588?. Call number:[http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=169367 STC 24931] and [http://luna.fo
...rchas his pilgrimes''. London: William Stansby, 1625. Call number: [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=164126 STC 20509 Copy 2 Vol.3] and [h
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== ''A Monument to Shakespeare'' ==
==== ''I shower a welcome on ye; welcome all.'' Shakespeare, Henry VIII, 1.4.75. ====
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:“A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus”
...riendship Between Men in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Adaptations of Shakespeare”
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...aracter from Shakespeare to Shirley'' (2011). He has edited three plays by Shakespeare and, with Amanda Bailey, ''Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts: Politics,
...velers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500-1770,” ''William and Mary Quarterly'' 54:1 (1997): 167-92.<br>
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...studies, letters, and the history of sexuality. His recent books include ''Shakespeare’s Letters'' (2008), volume 1 (2012) of ''The Oxford Francis Bacon'', and
...ance </em>(2002); he has edited Marlowe’s <em>Jew of Malta</em> as well as Shakespeare’s <em>Richard III</em> and <em>Julius Caesar</em>. He is currently edi
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...attended by Nature and the Passions'', 1791-1792, was a descendant of the Shakespeare craze generated by the career of David Garrick. Folger Digital Image [http:
...dress. For a complete catalog of the Folger's Romney drawings see, [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=31009 ''The Drawings of George Romney
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[[File:ART 231747.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Park's Shakespeare Characters, a nineteenth-century picture game. Folger Digital Image [http:/
...n [[Golden Lads & Lasses: Shakespeare for Children|''Golden Lads & Lasses: Shakespeare for Children'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]]. Specifically, t
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Folger Shakespeare Library, [https://emmo.folger.edu/ Early Modern Manuscripts Online beta] an
Folger Shakespeare Library [http://luna.folger.edu Digital Image Collection]
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...n Shakespeare's England|''Symbols of Honor: Heraldry and Family History in Shakespeare's England'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]].
...coats of arms of knights of the Garter was presented to James I in 1606 by William Segar, Garter King of Arms, who penned it himself. [http://luna.folger.edu/
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: Kerwin, William. “Medea's traces: Women Practitioners in History and Drama.” In ''Beyon
: [[Lena Cowen Orlin|Orlin, Lena]]. “Gertrude’s Closet.” ''Shakespeare Jahrbuch'' 134 (1998): 44–67.
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...in "Comedy of Errors," is a transcription platform designed by the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2006 to enable online transcription and comparison of transcript
::<span style="color:white; background-color:blue">William Shakespeare</span>
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...lord admiral, for the "White Falcon of Dansicke bound for Venetia, whereof William Henrickson is m[aste]r quietly to pass on || || 1585 || https://hamnet.fol
| Book || Perkins, William, 1558-1602, || Deaths knell, or the sicke mans passing-bell : summoning all
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...e, and the Folgers began collecting materials about her as they focused on Shakespeare. The collection on English history has continued to expand with the Folger
...politica vel ciuilis.'' London: William Jaggard, 1608. Call number [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=163993 STC 11922 Copy 3] and [http://
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:[[Derek Hirst]] is William Eliot Smith Professor of History. He is the author of ''Representative of t
...a lecture by [[Edward W. Soja]] (UCLA), and includes invited discussants [[William Egginton]] (the Johns Hopkins University), [[Margaret Greer]] (Duke Univers
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...am Archila (2016)|''The Human Voice in Struggle: Reginald Dwyane Betts and William Archila'' (2016)]]
* William Matthews (1993)
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...'' by helping you create your own musical instruments, leading you through Shakespeare's world of music, hosting your very own court masques and much much more.
All of the objects and drawings you see here can be found at the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]].
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Curated by Mary Anne Caton, ''Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England'' was part of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]] and ran from Sept
Shakespeare and his contemporaries were familiar with a wide range of foodstuffs and se
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