Folger Fellows

Fellow Anandi Rao takes a close look at a copy of an Urdu translation of The Comedy of Errors.

Fellow Sara Pennell hunts down the former owner of one the Folger’s many recipe books.

Fellow Alex Baines looks at the drawings of C. Walter Hodges and how they continue to impact how we imagine the Globe Theatre

Artistic fellow Casey Carsel shares their process designing textile works in response to questions about the Early Modern Jewish experience

Folger Fellow Ianick Takaes explores an early modern staging of heaven and hell.

A look at items in the Folger collection belonging to William Stukeley, an antiquarian with an interest in Robin Hood

Artistic Fellow Camille Thomas shares how research at the Folger helps inform her play, Sweet Blood.

Fellow Roberta Kwan discusses Shakespeare and loving thy neighbor

An examination of Cleopatra’s racialized and sexualized queenship through the twinned theoretical frameworks of indigenous and queer conviviality

Fellow Douglas Clark delves into the contents of the previously overlooked manuscript, Thomas Grocer’s Banquet of Sweetmeats.

Artistic Fellow Leah Hampton showcases the Folger’s collection of Early Modern bar tokens