On March 6, 2025 the Folger’s virtual book club continues with a discussion of The Tower by Flora Carr. To prepare for the discussion, we have pulled together a list of resources related to women in Shakespeare and Mary Queen of Scots.
CELEBRATE Women’s History Month with podcasts and articles
- Q&A: Lauren Gunderson on her new play, A Room in the Castle, about the women of Hamlet
- On stage at the Folger March 4 – April 6, 2025
- Naomi Miller on Mary Sidney and Imperfect Alchemist (podcast)
- Tana Wojczuk on Charlotte Cushman’s Radical Life (podcast)
- Black Women Shakespeareans, 1821 – 1960, with Joyce Green MacDonald (podcast)
- Shakespeare’s Unruly Women (past exhibition)
- Elizabeth I and the Qing Empress Xiaozhuang (blog post)
- Women painting Shakespeare in the time of Jane Austen and Queen Victoria (blog post)
- Women Patrons as Playmakers (blog post)
- By March Book Club presenter Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
EXPLORE Folger Theatre’s production of Mary Stuart
LISTEN to additional related podcast episodes
- Episode 101: Elizabeth Norton on The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women
- Episode 232: Ramie Targoff on Shakespeare’s Sisters
REVISIT another book club selection with Mary, Queen of Scots at its center
- A Tip for the Hangman by Allison Epstein
We would like to thank the following organization for its generous support of this program
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