Paris of Troy is known for his pivotal role in the legendary Trojan War, a conflict of epic proportions waged between the armies of Greece and the city of Troy. His reputation as a r… Read More

Comment on this storyComment In the opening pages of “Stalking Shakespeare,” Lee Durkee sets the scene by disclosing preliminary facts about his place, pastime and per… Read More

Our Flag Means Death Season 2: There would have been a few instances when period dramas featured romance more than historical wars. One of the best series that perfectly suits the period rom… Read More

Many poets have written about mental health or struggled with depression themselves. Discover the best depression poems by poets through the ages. The mind and our innermost emotions are… Read More

Return to menu White House Spring Garden Tours Washington’s public and private gardens are bursting with events at this time of year, but few attract as much buzz — or deman… Read More

Ghost writers or ghost novels? These books and the mediums that penned them claim that they were actually written by famous writers.  Through the popularity of spiritualism and mediu… Read More

It has been nearly 40 years since Louis Booker Wright was laid to rest. As a scholar, Wright was well-known for his research into Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare, and earl… Read More

The Big FivePenguin Random HouseMacmillanSimon & SchusterHachetteHarperCollinsOther Resources A quick post on publishers I’ve been meaning to do for a while now! I’ve ha… Read More

Author William Shakespeare ISBN-10 0743477111 ISBN-13 9780671722852 Year 2004-01-01 Pages 336 Language English Publisher Simon & Schuster Download Link Click Here In Romeo and Juli… Read More

Atlas ObscuraThe oil tycoon Henry Clay Folger began collecting Shakespeare’s folios in the late 1880s. Over the following decades, he amassed quite the trove. The library opened in 193… Read More

A short summary of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Romeo and Juliet Read More

Welcome to the third installment in our cross-country bookish road trip series! So far, we’ve traveled coast-to-coast along I-90, crossed mountains and rivers in the heart of the count… Read More

Defining irony and studying irony examples can make your writing more impactful. Irony is a type of figurative language or literary device that happens when the speaker or writer uses wor… Read More

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Distillation became an important household activity for many women in early modern Europe in the seventeenth century; we have ample evidence that they wrote, purchased, collected, annotated… Read More

Shakespeare’s old Globe Theater was built almost exactly 422 years ago! Well, kind of. The building process started on December 28th, 1598, but when it was finished and how it was bui… Read More

I must interrupt my festive holiday posts to mark a somber anniversary today: a year ago a representative of the Peabody Essex Museum admitted that there were no plans to reopen the long-shu… Read More

Daily Thoughts 02/22/2019I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.Web BitsShakespeare Book Clubshttps://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2019/02/19/shakespeare-book-clubs-austi… Read More

It’s Make it Missoula Monday.  Each week, Trail 103.3 DJ, Craig Johnson shares his picks of the week for Missoula happenings. You can hear him discuss them on-air each… Read More

[The following is cross-posted from the Folger Shakespeare Library's blog, The Collation. Thanks to Sarah Werner for including it, and for her help with formatting. If yo… Read More