The Collation

Read an excerpt of Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage and an interview with co-editors Amrita Sen and Jennifer Linhart Wood.

Artistic Research Fellow Billy Morgan shares and contextualizes an excerpt of a fiction piece shaped by their work at the Folger.

Artistic Research Fellow, Kate Nartker, transforms weave drafts from one of our recipe books into cloth and film.

For an early April Fools’ Day treat, enjoy this selection of collection items that showcase the weird and wonderful history of early modern comedy.

In this mock exhibition catalog entry for a writing class, Gabi, an undergraduate student at GWU, takes a closer look at early modern midwifery using The Birth of Mankinde.

In this exhibition catalog entry for a writing class, Eleanor, an undergraduate student at GWU, examines a Dutch print portraying the Gunpowder Plotters and their fate.

A GWU undergraduate student shares their experience working at the Folger for their class project on Shakespeare and early modern dentistry an Art in the Age of Shakespeare course.

In this mock exhibition catalog entry for a writing class, Addison, an undergraduate student at GWU, examines Edwin Austin Abbey’s illustration of Stratford-upon-Avon.

This solution to February’s Folger Mystery looks at how editors of A Midsummer Night’s Dream have dealt with the ambiguous presence of one its fairies.

Spot the difference between two versions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in this month’s Folger Mystery!

The RaceB4Race Mentorship Network reads Swahili Worlds in Globalism

A GWU undergraduate student shares their experience working at the Folger for their class project on Shakespeare and Ovid for an Art in the Age of Shakespeare course.