Folger Fellows

Seventeenth century resonances in a twentieth century postcard sent from Jamaica.

• “Do not seek pleasure in music and singing” and other advice for widows from an early 17th century manuscript.

An examination of marginalia in the Folger’s 1593 The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia

What does the language of Shakespeare have in common with the Gullah-Geechee language?

Looking at enslaved Black workers and the 1588 Spanish Armada’s afterlives in a 17th-century English miscellany

You probably know Anthony Burgess as the author of A Clockwork Orange, but did you know he was also a prominent commentator on Shakespeare’s life?

A look at the many roles that musicians played aboard Early Modern ships.

A closer look at 17th century engraved rings in the Folger’s collection

A look at some of the colonial sources that informed the understanding that 17th century English people had of North Africa.

Findings from a 1945 survey asking patrons of a library about their experiences reading, watching, and performing Shakespeare.

Through her correspondence, Delia Salter Bacon reveals what it was like to undergo a 19th century “water-cure”

Fellow Jamie Gemmell explores how race was performed in the annual London Lord Mayor’s Show