Resource Guide: 'The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf' by Isa Arsén

On April 2, 2026 the Folger’s virtual book club returns with a discussion of The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf by Isa Arsén. To prepare for the discussion, we have pulled together a list of resources related to Shakespeare, theater, and the mind.

READ the Shakespeare plays referenced in the text

• Macbeth: Full Text
  • Audio Excerpts
• Titus Andronicus
• Twelfth Night

LEARN about Shakespeare, the early modern period, and the mind

• Shakespeare Unlimited, Episode 9: Shakespeare and Insane Asylums
• Shakespeare Unlimited, Episode 193: How Shakespeare Thought About the Mind, with Helen Hackett
• When the Body is Ill, The Mind Suffers: Shakespeare’s Unravelling of Women’s Hysteria and Madness in the Elizabethan Era
• Better than laughing: Renaissance melancholy

LISTEN to podcast episodes related to Shakespeare and theater

• • Episode 2: Actresses on Shakespeare
  • Episode 34: Stanley Wells on Great Shakespearean Actors
  • Episode 149: Directing Shakespeare

DISCOVER the Antioch Shakespeare Festival of the 1950s

• Explore promptbooks from the 1950s festival Shakespeare Under the Stars
• Shakespeare Unlimited, Episode 99: Antioch Shakespeare Festival: John Lithgow, Robin Lithgow, and Tony Dallas