The Collation
Research and Exploration at the Folger
The Collation is a gathering of useful information and observations from Folger staff and researchers. Read more about this blog
Some More Birthdays
In honor of America250 and our exhibition Shakespeare and the American Story, we celebrate milestone birthdays of collection items, from a book that is as the same age as America to coins that are thousands of years old.
Through the Photographer’s Lens
Chris Naulty, our Imaging Associate, shares some of the weird and wonderful things she has encountered in our early modern recipe books while working on the project to digitize them.
Re-writing and Reimagining Early Modern Witchcraft Through Creative Practice
Artistic Research Fellow Evelyn Reidy shares how she is using the Folger’s collection material related to witchcraft, early modern beliefs, and women’s knowledge to help her portray the women executed in Salem in 1692-93 in her new play, More Weight, or I Saw Goody Proctor at the Gift Shop.
Interview and excerpt: Amrita Sen and Jennifer Linhart Wood on 'Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage'
Read an excerpt of Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage and an interview with co-editors Amrita Sen and Jennifer Linhart Wood.
The one (fem.)
Artistic Research Fellow Billy Morgan shares and contextualizes an excerpt of a fiction piece shaped by their work at the Folger.
Drafting Narratives: Weaving, Sequence, and Story in the Folger Library Archive
Artistic Research Fellow, Kate Nartker, transforms weave drafts from one of our recipe books into cloth and film.
For the Love of Laughter: Early Modern Improv and Comedy
For an early April Fools’ Day treat, enjoy this selection of collection items that showcase the weird and wonderful history of early modern comedy.
Undergraduate Research at the Folger: The Birth of Mankinde
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.
Undergraduate Research at the Folger: Picturing the Plotters
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.
Undergraduate Research at the Folger: Pain in the Teeth
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.
Undergraduate Research at the Folger: Imagining Shakespeare's School Days
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.
"A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye": An Unnamed Fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
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.