On April 3, 2025 the Folger’s virtual book club continues with a discussion of Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth. To prepare for the discussion, we have pulled together a list of resources related to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, gaming, and girlhood.
LEARN more about Twelfth Night
CONNECT with related Folger programming
- Folger Theatre’s Twelfth Night, on stage May 13 – June 22, 2025
- Folger Foe-lios, a series of introductory 5E Adventures
LEARN more about Shakespeare and gaming
- The game’s the thing
- Gaming and grieving with Shakespeare: Gabrielle Zevin’s new novel puts the ghostliness in gameplay
- Fortune’s Fools: early tarot cards
- Rough Magic: Performing Shakespeare Through Gaming Technology
LISTEN to related podcasts
- Episode 60: Shakespeare and Girlhood
- Episode 62: Shakespeare and YA Novels—Ryan North and Molly Booth
- Episode 72: Adapting Shakespeare
REVISIT past book club selections
- The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
We would like to thank the following organization for its generous support of this program
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