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February 2013
| Exhibition
Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland
January 19–May 19, 2013
10am–5pm Monday–Saturday
12pm–5pm Sunday
Folger Great Hall
Curators: Thomas Herron and Brendan Kane
Often portrayed only as a country in conflict during the 16th and 17th centuries, Ireland was also a place of intermingling culture and adaptability. Nobility and Newcomers explores both the conflict and the opportunities and challenges open to both Irish and English nobility, and reveals Ireland as a land of ideas and art.
Please note: Sundays, open NOON - 5pm
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FREE
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| Theater
Henry V
January 22–March 10, 2013
Preview Dates: January 22–27, 2013
Regular Performance and Matinee Dates: January 28–March 10, 2013
Folger Elizabethan Theatre
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Robert Richmond
Imagine the thrilling grasp for power by a young king whose ambition reaches beyond the English court to the fields of France.
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| Special Event
Exhibition Opening
Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland
February 4, 2013 6:30pm–8:30pm
Folger Great Hall
Celebrate the opening of our latest exhibition with remarks and a reception in the Folger's Great Hall.
Members by invitation
Members Only: Join Now
Tickets:
Free
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| PEN/Faulkner
Modern Americana: Chad Harbach & Karen Russell
February 5, 2013 7:30pm
Folger Elizabethan Theatre
First-time novelists read from their acclaimed works. Russell’s Swamplandia! was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Harbach’s best seller The Art of Fielding is a fresh and poignantly non-sentimental new American baseball story.
Tickets:
$15
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| Lectures
Pre–Show Talk: Henry V
February 6, 2013 6:30pm
Folger Haskell Center
Michael Witmore, Director of the Folger, shares his perspective on Shakespeare’s Henry V in an insightful pre-performance discussion. Includes light fare reception.
Tickets:
$15
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| Poetry
B.H. Fairchild & Mary Jo Bang
February 11, 2013 7:30pm
Folger Elizabethan Theatre
Award-winning poets B.H. Fairchild and Mary Jo Bang come together in a reading that highlights their inventive and creative poetry. Reception and book signing to follow.
Tickets:
$15
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| Special Event
Acquisitions Night 2013
February 21, 2013 6:30pm–8:30pm
Folger Old Reading Room
Browse and perhaps adopt recent additions to the Folger collection during our annual benefit for the acquisitions endowment. Rare books, manuscripts, and works of art will be on display with Folger curators and librarians on hand to answer questions. Buffet dinner served in Great Hall.
Acquisitions Night
Tickets:
$100
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| PEN/Faulkner
Power, Corruption, and Lies: William Kennedy & Thomas Mallon
February 25, 2013 7:30pm
Folger Elizabethan Theatre
A modern lens on the politics of our past
Critically acclaimed writer William Kennedy brings his native city to literary life again in Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes, an in-depth, absorbing novel set in Albany, NY during the civil rights movement and during the civil unrest in 1950’s Cuba. A long-time reporter, screenwriter, and novelist, Kennedy received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Ironweed, adapted into the 1987 movie starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.
Thomas Mallon sets his latest compelling historical novel in Washington, DC with Watergate, an intriguing version of a nation’s scandal. Mallon is author of eight novels, including Henry and Clara, Dewey Defeats Truman, and Fellow Travelers, as well as many works of nonfiction, essays, and contributions to The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review, among other publications. The Los Angeles Times described his work as “some of the most lucid prose in contemporary American literature.”
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$15
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