Resource Guide: 'The Familiar' by Leigh Bardugo

On December 5, 2024 the Folger’s virtual book club continues with a discussion of The Familiar. To prepare for the discussion, we have pulled together a list of resources related to Golden Age Spain, the inquisition, and Love’s Labor’s Lost.

EXPLORE England’s relationship with Spain through early modern drama

• Read Love’s Labor’s Lost on Folger Digital Texts
• Influences for Love’s Labor’s Lost: Contemporary texts and historical figures
• A Game at Chess: Popularity and Controversy 

LISTEN to podcast episodes related to magic in Renaissance England and compare with those in the novel

• Episode 43: Shakespeare and Magic
• Episode 246: Tabitha Stanmore on Practical Magic in Shakespeare’s England

REVISIT a related past book club selection for another depiction of an early modern Jewish experience

• About The Weight of Ink
• The Weight of Ink Resource Guide
• Collection Connections: The Weight of Ink

DISCOVER traces of the Inquisition in the Folger Collection

• A censored Second Folio from Valladolid
  • Censorship and the Valladolid Folio 

COMPARE Shakespeare and Spanish Golden Age author Miguel Cervantes

• The Wonder of Will, the Marvel of Miguel: 400 years of Shakespeare and Cervantes
• Prospero and Persiles: Comparing the late romances of Shakespeare and Cervantes
• Cervantes, the Moors of Spain, and the Moor of Venice
• Shakespeare and Cervantes: Dying well after living well