Resource Guide: 'Queen B' by Juno Dawson

On June 5, 2025 the Folger’s virtual book club continues with a discussion of Queen B by Juno Dawson. To prepare for the discussion, we have pulled together a list of resources related to witches and Anne Boleyn.

LEARN more about Shakespeare’s Henry VIII

• Full text of the play
• Collection images
• The play on Folgerpedia

EXPLORE collection items related to witchcraft and the court

• Companion to the I Put a Spell on You poetry reading, October 2019
• The Discouerie of Witchcraft in the Vaults
• Vivat Rex!: 500th Anniversary of Henry VIII’s Accession to the Throne

LEARN about early modern attitudes towards witchcraft

• Toil and trouble: Recipes and the witches in ‘Macbeth’
• A manual for witch-hunters
• Of the flattering, pampered, reviled, predatory, “harmless, necessary” early modern cat

LISTEN to related episodes of the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast

• Episode 43: Shakespeare and Magic
• Episode 117: Deborah Harkness/’A Discovery of Witches’
• Episode 227: Julia Fox and John Guy on Their New Biography of Anne Boleyn

REVISIT past Book Club picks that include elements of witchcraft

• I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
  
• Hamnet
• Circe
• Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch