Folger Collections

A participant in the undergraduate seminar, Whose Sovereignty?, experiences the materiality of the 1583 edition of John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments

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

Ahead of the US premiere of The Mirror and the Light, curator Heather Wolfe shares the juicy stories behind items in our collection related to Cromwell and Anne of Cleves.

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

GWU students reflect on their experience using the Folger collections in Dr. Rachel Pollack’s first-year writing course.

To celebrate her feast day, explore the legend of Saint Agatha as told through Folger manuscript V.b.334

I made a zine inspired by the Folger Shakespeare Library’s collection (and you can too!). 

Explore the (often biting) commentary that Victorian novelist Antony Trollope left in a copy of Marlowe’s plays.

A behind the scenes look at the creation of a reproduction of one of the embroidered bindings on display in Little Books, Big Gifts: The Artistry of Esther Inglis.