Booking and details
Reserve Your SpotDates Thu, Jan 15, 2026, at 12pm
Venue Virtual on Zoom
Tickets Free, registration required
Film inspired by books of hours. Performing racial slavery on the English stage.
Interested? Join us for the next Virtual Folger Salon.
About Folger Salon
Learn about research happening at the Folger in real time! Each month, Folger Institute scholar and artist fellows share their most exciting finds and thought-provoking challenges, followed by Q&A. Most Folger Salons take place in-person in the Great Hall at the Folger Shakespeare Library, but occasionally these events are held virtually to showcase the work of the Folger’s Virtual Fellows.
This is a free event, with registration required.
Speakers
Margherita Malerba
2025-26 Artistic Research Fellow
Il libro d’ore – The Book of Hours
Hassana Moosa
2025-26 Short-term Fellow
Rehearsing Bondage: Performing Racial Slavery on the English Stage (1550 – 1670)
About Folger Institute
The Folger Institute is a center for early modern research at the Folger Shakespeare Library that brings public audiences together with researchers to explore the cultures and legacies of the early modern world. Learn more.
“Greetings from Jamaica”
Seventeenth century resonances in a twentieth century postcard sent from Jamaica.
How to be a true widow in early modern England
“Do not seek pleasure in music and singing” and other advice for widows from an early 17th-century manuscript.
Third Time’s a Charm: W. Blount Reads Sidney’s Arcadia
An examination of marginalia in the Folger’s 1593 The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia
Painting the birds of Shakespeare
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.
Working Through the Tangle: Language, Archives, and Practice
What does the language of Shakespeare have in common with the Gullah-Geechee language?