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

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Kristen Sieck

See portraits from the Folger collection of Edmund Kean as Richard III, Ellen Terry as Beatrice, Edwin Booth as Iago, and Fanny Kemble as Juliet.

Toil and trouble: Recipes and the witches in 'Macbeth'
recipes
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Toil and trouble: Recipes and the witches in 'Macbeth'

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David B. Goldstein

Shakespeare’s witches, like nearly all witches of Shakespeare’s time, have their roots in the kitchen more than in the study.

Summertime in the Folger collection: Sunshine, youth, and harvest
Summer
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Summertime in the Folger collection: Sunshine, youth, and harvest

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Rachel B. Dankert

Slip into the Folger collection with me and connect with sweltering people from summers past in their quest to beat the heat or rhapsodize summer’s charms.

Quiz: Which copy of "Midsummer" are you?
IMAGE: Collage of copies of
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Quiz: Which copy of "Midsummer" are you?

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Ben Lauer

The Folger’s collection includes a lot of editions of Shakespeare’s plays; some copies of these editions have their own, unique stories. Which of these special copies of Shakespeare’s classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream matches your personality? Take our quiz to…

Explore promptbooks from the 1950s festival Shakespeare Under the Stars
King Henry VIII prompt book
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Explore promptbooks from the 1950s festival Shakespeare Under the Stars

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Esther French

The Folger collection contains a number of prompt books from Shakespeare Under the Stars productions, which were gifts from Arthur Lithgow.

Shakespeare's Heroines (some of them, anyway)
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Shakespeare's Heroines (some of them, anyway)

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Abbie Weinberg

Explore a set of early 19th-century watercolor portraits of Shakespearean heroines in the Folger collection.

Salvador Dalí and Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew etching by Salvador Dali
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Salvador Dalí and Shakespeare

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Esther French

See illustrations and costume designs by surrealist Salvador Dalí in the Folger Shakespeare Library collection for plays like “The Taming of the Shrew.”

Inside an Argentine translation of ‘Hamlet’ paired with surrealist illustrations
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Inside an Argentine translation of ‘Hamlet’ paired with surrealist illustrations

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Marianne Hewitt

Rafael Squirru and Juan Carlos Liberti collaborated to create this Argentine translation of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ with surrealist illustrations.

'The Blazing World' by Margaret Cavendish: The first science fiction novel written by a woman
The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
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'The Blazing World' by Margaret Cavendish: The first science fiction novel written by a woman

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Esther French

“The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World” by Margaret Cavendish has been called the first science-fiction novel written by a woman. Learn more about this book, which is part of the Folger collection.

An edition of Richard III "adapted for amateurs"
PR2821 .A367 Sh.Col. back cover
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An edition of Richard III "adapted for amateurs"

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Sarah Hovde

Black actor J.A. Arneaux starred as the title character in the Astor Place Company’s production of Richard III and published his own 19th-century edition.

Pageants, banquets, and fireworks: How to celebrate a coronation
Francis Sandford. The history of the coronation of the most high, most mighty, and most excellent monarch, James II. 1687. S652
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Pageants, banquets, and fireworks: How to celebrate a coronation

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These books and documents from the Folger collection show the many ways an English coronation would be celebrated in the 16th and 17th centuries.

All the table's a stage: A 1619 Christmas play for food
A Christmas Messe
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All the table's a stage: A 1619 Christmas play for food

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Abby Westover

In this unconventional Christmas play from 1619, the characters are different foods warring against one another for pride of place at the holiday feast.

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