The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period (1500–1750) in Britain and Europe. The library was established by Henry Clay Folger in association with his wife, Emily Jordan Folger. It opened in 1932, two years after his death.
The library offers advanced scholarly programs and national outreach to K–12 classroom teachers on Shakespeare education. Other performances and events at the Folger include the award-winning Folger Theatre, which produces Shakespeare-inspired theater; Folger Consort, the early-music ensemble-in-residence; the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series; the PEN/Faulkner Reading Series; and numerous other exhibits, seminars, talks and lectures, and family programs. It also has several publications, including the Folger Library editions of Shakespeare's plays, the journal Shakespeare Quarterly, the teacher resource books Shakespeare Set Free, and catalogs of exhibitions. The Folger is also a leader in methods of preserving rare materials.
The library is privately endowed and administered by the Trustees of Amherst College. The library building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The FolgerShakespeareLibrary is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., United States. It has the world's largest collection...
collections. More than one third of the extant copies are housed at the FolgerShakespeareLibrary in Washington, D.C., which is home to a total of 82 First Folios...
Shakespeareana, and founder of the FolgerShakespeareLibrary. Henry Clay Folger Jr. was born in New York City to Henry Clay Folger Sr. of Nantucket, Massachusetts...
signatures". Shakespeare Documented. FolgerShakespeareLibrary. Retrieved 27 February 2023. Schoenbaum, S. (1987). William Shakespeare: A compact documentary...
Cantor, Paul A. (1980). "Shakespeare's The Tempest: The Wise Man as Hero". Shakespeare Quarterly. 31 (1). FolgerShakespeareLibrary: 64–75. doi:10.2307/2869370...
humanist, and director of a library and cultural institution. In 2011, he was appointed the director of the FolgerShakespeareLibrary in Washington, D.C., where...
October 2021. "John Shakespeare's grant of arms". Shakespeare Documented. FolgerShakespeareLibrary. Retrieved 10 April 2023. Shakespeare's coat of arms, all...
Emily Jordan Folger (May 15, 1858 – February 21, 1936), was the wife of Henry Clay Folger and the co-founder of the FolgerShakespeareLibrary. During her...
Miscellany of 1608, also known as FolgerShakespeareLibrary MS V.b.232, was given to the FolgerShakespeareLibrary by Lessing J. Rosenwald in 1945. Trevelyon...
is now under the auspices of the FolgerShakespeareLibrary. Along with book and performance criticism, Shakespeare Quarterly incorporates scholarly research...
author, educator and librarian. Wright was the director of the FolgerShakespeareLibrary, the author of numerous books about the American colonial period...
Jonathan Gil (2007). "The Smell of Macbeth". Shakespeare Quarterly. 58 (4). FolgerShakespeareLibrary: 465–486. doi:10.1353/shq.2007.0062. eISSN 1538-3555...
dispute, for it uses the Protestant formula." "FolgerShakespeareLibrary". FolgerShakespeareLibrary. Retrieved 15 April 2024. Schoenbaum 1987, pp. 24–26...
painter George Gower dated 1579, and now in the collection of the FolgerShakespeareLibrary in Washington, D.C. It is one of three near-identical portraits...
(1857–1930), founder of the FolgerShakespeareLibrary J. A. Folger (1835–1889), founder of the Folgers Coffee Company John Clifford Folger (1893–1981), United...
Tragedy of Julius Caesar. New York: FolgerShakespeareLibrary. ISBN 978-1-4391-9671-7. Boyce, Charles (1990). Shakespeare A to Z. New York: Roundtable Press...
In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies; and modern scholars recognise...
of these. The portrait is now a part of the collection of the FolgerShakespeareLibrary in Washington, DC. The identity of the artist is unknown. At some...
Manuscript (named after its owner Cox Macro) that is now housed in the FolgerShakespeareLibrary in Washington, D.C. The Castle of Perseverance contains nearly...
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