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Louis Butelli: "Come, Cassius' Sword"
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Louis Butelli: "Come, Cassius' Sword"

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Louis Butelli

By your leave, gods:—this is a Roman’s part Come, Cassius’ sword -Julius Caesar, V.ii.100  One of the great challenges of playing Cassius in Folger Theatre’s production of Julius Caesar is (spoiler alert!) committing suicide on-stage eight times a week. Louis…

Quartos and Folios in the English Classroom
Teaching Shakespeare

Quartos and Folios in the English Classroom

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Hamlet. First Folio. Courtesy Folger Shakespeare Library. By Sara Lehn “Stand, who is that?” “Tis I.” “Who’s there?” “Nay, answer me.  Stand and unfold yourself.” What’s the difference between the two exchanges above?  Either not much or quite a lot,…

Hamlet's Ophelia: How imagery supports characterization
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Hamlet's Ophelia: How imagery supports characterization

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By Jill Burdick-Zupancic In English 10, I chose to study Macbeth with the students this year. However, because we were also looking at how imagery supports characterization, I decided to get them back into the world of Shakespeare with a…

Audio Recordings Pt. II or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bard
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Audio Recordings Pt. II or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bard

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Katharine Pitt

Hello! My name is Kate Pitt and I work as an assistant in public programs here at the Folger. I was also the production assistant on the audio recordings this summer and as we move into our upcoming 2013/14 season,…

A ghost for Halloween
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A ghost for Halloween

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Erin Blake

I’d like to say that I cleverly scheduled the installation of Benjamin Wilson’s William Powell as Hamlet encountering the Ghost for last Friday so that the Founders’ Room would have a ghost in time for Halloween. Unfortunately, there were witnesses…

Ah, Relationships
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Ah, Relationships

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Louis Butelli

One of the fundamental building blocks with which an actor works is an awareness of the relationships into which his character enters. For the actor playing Roderigo in any production of Othello, at a certain moment he must confront the…

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