Edmund Kean

Folger Fellow Désha Osborne looks at Horace Twiss’s early 19th century play The Carib Chief.

See portraits from the Folger collection of Edmund Kean as Richard III, Ellen Terry as Beatrice, Edwin Booth as Iago, and Fanny Kemble as Juliet.

Two centuries after his death, Austen witnessed Shakespeare’s rise towards literary megastardom firsthand. Learn how she experienced the Bard, reading and admiring his works, referencing him in her own novels, and seeing his plays performed.

“When I was young and first read ‘OTHELLO,’ I thought the character of RODERIGO of little importance; it seemed introduced merely to fill up those vacancies of action which might otherwise have remained unemployed.” Hey, blogfriends! It’s your pal Louis,…