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Esther Ferington

is an independent editor, writer, and content developer. She works on a variety of projects for the Folger and was the editor for Infinite Variety: Exploring the Folger Shakespeare Library.
The Inside View
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The Inside View

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Excavating the Folger's Future
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Excavating the Folger's Future

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Magnolia on the March
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Magnolia on the March

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Five Faces of Shakespeare
Miss C.B. Currie. Miniature, Cosway binding, 1928. James Boaden, An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Various Pictures. 1824. Folger Shakespeare Library.
Shakespeare and Beyond

Five Faces of Shakespeare

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Among the many treasures of the Folger is a lavish “Cosway binding” that includes five unique miniatures by a 20th-century British artist, “Miss C. B. Currie,” based on the images from the book itself. One of the oddest to modern…

Rediscovering a Music-Filled Macbeth
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Rediscovering a Music-Filled Macbeth

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Learning Shakespeare, Citywide: Folger Education Partners with District of Columbia Public Schools
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Learning Shakespeare, Citywide: Folger Education Partners with District of Columbia Public Schools

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Hearing the voices of discovery
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Shakespeare Unlimited: Hearing the voices of discovery

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In our Shakespeare Unlimited podcast, now celebrating its 100th episode, you can hear so many surprising and often first-person stories by scholars, musicians, authors, actors, and others on all manner of Shakespearean topics.

Shining a Light on the Other Playwrights of Shakespeare's Day
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Shining a Light on the Other Playwrights of Shakespeare's Day

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Shining a light on the other playwrights of Shakespeare's day
The Roaring Girl
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Shining a light on the other playwrights of Shakespeare's day

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A Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama (EMED, for short) is a large, searchable digital resource on the hundreds of commercial plays by the other authors of Shakespeare’s time—including dozens of newly edited play texts.

Studying early modern women—in Shakespeare's plays and in his time
Early modern women reading
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Studying early modern women—in Shakespeare's plays and in his time

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By Esther Ferington The roles of early modern women in Shakespeare’s time—both the fictional characters in his plays and the real-life women of his era—have been central to many projects created by Georgianna Ziegler, Louis B. Thalheimer Associate Librarian and…

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