The Collation

What is a copy of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, and Aulus Persius Flaccus Translated (1673) doing in the Folger’s “Shakespeare and the American Story” exhibition?

In anticipation of International Dog Day, Imaging Associate Chris Naulty shares some adorable dogs from the photo album of actress Ellen Terry.

Brandi K. Adams explores how concerns about “artificiall intelligence” manifest in the 16th and 17th centuries, reflecting the concerns of our own time.

An introduction to the so‑called ‘temporary’  boards bindings that are still on our copy of the first American edition of Shakespeare.

Directors of the pilot Folger Institute undergraduate program, “Shakespeare’s Places, Publics, and Platforms”, reflect on the program.

The cautionary tale of this English Civil War-era pamphlet follows a respectable barrister’s descent into a life of crime and his ultimate redemption through repentance, a narrative shaped by the political imperatives of the time.

In honor of America250 and our exhibition Shakespeare and the American Story, we celebrate milestone birthdays of collection items, from a book that is as the same age as America to coins that are thousands of years old.

Chris Naulty, our Imaging Associate, shares some of the weird and wonderful things she has encountered in our early modern recipe books while working on the project to digitize them.

Artistic Research Fellow Evelyn Reidy shares how she is using the Folger’s collection material related to witchcraft, early modern beliefs, and women’s knowledge to help her portray the women executed in Salem in 1692-93 in her new play, More Weight, or I Saw Goody Proctor at the Gift Shop.

Read an excerpt of Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage and an interview with co-editors Amrita Sen and Jennifer Linhart Wood.

Artistic Research Fellow Billy Morgan shares and contextualizes an excerpt of a fiction piece shaped by their work at the Folger.