Resource Guide: 'The Tower' by Flora Carr

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

• Production Diary
• On Folgerpedia

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
  • About the novel
  • Resource Guide
  • Collection Connections