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The Shakespeare Gallery
Ongoing, Monday through Saturday 10am-5pm Sunday 12pm–5pm
Folger Great Hall
Explore the Folger through our visitor film, digitally leaf through a First Folio with our touchscreen kiosk, and explore our collection through special exhibitions that connect with current programs.
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Tickets:
FREE
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Shakespeare's Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500–1700
February 3–May 20, 2012 10am–5pm Monday–Saturday 12pm–5pm Sunday
Folger Great Hall
Curators: Georgianna Ziegler
Virginia Woolf famously evoked Shakespeare’s sister in A Room of One’s Own as she tried to imagine the difficulties women writers faced during the early modern period. In fact, Woolf was not aware of how many women actually were writing during that time, because many of their works were never published, and those that were, lay in relative critical neglect. This exhibition explores those women who were, in fact, writing during Shakespeare's time. It reimagines the “conversations” of these early women writers: with each other as members of families or groups; with the Bible; with spiritual and secular ideas; and with male writers of the time.
Special Sunday viewing hours from noon to 5pm.
Tickets:
FREE
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The Taming of the Shrew
May 1–June 10, 2012 Preview Dates: May 1–6, 2012 Regular Performance and Matinee Dates: May 7–June 10, 2012
Folger Elizabethan Theatre
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Aaron Posner
The battle of the sexes wages on as the arrogant Petruchio and the headstrong Kate face off in Shakespeare’s comedic examination of the institution of marriage and the journey toward love.
Tickets:
Tue-Thu & Sun Eve:
$39-$47
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| Lectures
Pre–Show Discussion: The Taming of the Shrew
May 16, 2012 6:30pm
Folger Haskell Center
Mike Witmore, Director of the Folger, shares his perspective on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew in a pre-performance discussion.
Tickets:
$15
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