Folger Fellows

Folger Artist Fellow Missy Dunaway shares what she’s learning while working on The Birds of Shakespeare, her project to paint the 65 birds mentioned in Shakespeare’s works.

What does the language of Shakespeare have in common with the Gullah-Geechee language?

Looking at enslaved Black workers and the 1588 Spanish Armada’s afterlives in a 17th-century English miscellany

Ansel shares how her questions as an artist fellow about Fuseli’s take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth inspired her to create two abstract, large-scale oil paintings but this time from a woman’s perspective that celebrates the play’s sisterhood.

You probably know Anthony Burgess as the author of A Clockwork Orange, but did you know he was also a prominent commentator on Shakespeare’s life?

A look at the many roles that musicians played aboard Early Modern ships.

A closer look at 17th century engraved rings in the Folger’s collection

A look at some of the colonial sources that informed the understanding that 17th century English people had of North Africa.

Findings from a 1945 survey asking patrons of a library about their experiences reading, watching, and performing Shakespeare.

Through her correspondence, Delia Salter Bacon reveals what it was like to undergo a 19th century “water-cure”

Fellow Jamie Gemmell explores how race was performed in the annual London Lord Mayor’s Show

Fellow Jean Marie Christensen explores beauty standards of the 17th century.