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
Join us for a future event
Early Music Seminar: Kings and Commonwealth
Early Music Seminar: Kings and Commonwealth
Folger Consort Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein leads a lively virtual seminar that offers a sneak peek at the music performed in the Folger Consort’s upcoming "Kings and Commonwealth: The English Civil War."
Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 6pm ET
Folger Book Club:
'The Death I Gave Him' by Em X. Liu
Folger Book Club:
'The Death I Gave Him' by Em X. Liu
Folger Book Club:
'The Death I Gave Him' by Em X. Liu
Our May 2025 is lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller.
Thu, May 1, 2025, 6:30pm
Folger Book Club: 'Queen B' by Juno Dawson
Folger Book Club: 'Queen B' by Juno Dawson
Our June 2025 selection sets the stage for 'Her Majesty's Royal Coven' trilogy, tracing the origins of the coven to the days following Anne Boleyn's execution.
Thu, Jun 5, 2025, 6:30pm
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