a guest post by Stephen Grant
Printed on picture side: Nothing
Printed on address side: Exhibition Hall, Folger Shakespeare Library Washington, DC
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Written message: March 3, 2022 Steve: This card shows the Great Hall as we rethought it in the late eighties – illuminated strapwork ceiling and architectural features, state-of-the-art casework, solar veil window shades, and curtains fabricated by King Fahd’s draper!… Continue Reading
A guest post by Alexander D’Agostino
I am an artist working with queer histories and images, through performance and visual art. During my Artist Research Fellowship with the Folger, I am creating The Fairy King’s Grimoire: a reimagining of the magic and rituals outlined in Manuscript V.b.26, The Book of Magic with instructions for invoking spirits, etc. while considering needs and beliefs of queer people today.… Continue Reading
A guest post by William Davis
Thank you to everyone who left a guess on this month’s crocodile mystery! Everyone got a piece of it, but none the whole. It takes a stalwart person to identify some of the many quotes tossed off by the lead character of “Cupid’s Whirligig!” The Black Spot is truer than you would think: it is indeed a mark of death.… Continue Reading
There are many correct aspects to the answer to the question, “What manner of crocodile is this?”
The more details you get, the higher your score! So see what you can piece together and we’ll be back next week to give you the full details!… Continue Reading
What can Shakespeare say about the original sin of the United States, slavery? As two artists in the Civil War era thought, a lot.
Two cartoons in the Folger’s collections, drawn around a decade apart, allude to Shakespeare’s Macbeth to comment on slavery and its place in U.S. society and politics. Through these cartoons we see the sea change that happened within that short span of time.… Continue Reading
a guest post by Eileen Sperry
For early modern English Christians, dying was an art form. The bestseller list of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, had there been one, would have been topped by some of the period’s many ars moriendi texts. These treatises, which took hold in England in the late 15th century and remained present through the country’s many doctrinal shifts, were wildly popular.… Continue Reading
