The thematic series I started Aug. 12, 2019, “Postcards in the Folger Archives,” has come to a pause.
Shakespeare Articles
The Bard’s Birthday
The Bard Will was born on the same day he died—and no one knows for sure on what day he was born. No birth certificate has been found for William Shakespeare. The plaque underneath is a baptism...
Shall we take the ferry to Nantucket to visit the Folger Shakespeare Library?
Reading the Washington Post with horror! Deciding where to build the Folger Shakespeare Library. WIN a FREE book!
The Omni-Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia
George Washington visited Hot Springs, Va. on horseback in 1755 on an inspection tour of forts as protection against Indian attacks. The Homestead spa and resort was founded in 1766, a decade before...
Postcards of the Folger:
Macbeth, Ivlivs Caesar, King Lear
The next three bas-reliefs along the Folger’s north wall are Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and King Lear.
Postcards of the Folger:
Midsommer, Romeo and Ivliet, Merchant of VeniceThey Don’t Know How to Spell, No Nude!
On Aug. 2, 1929 the Folgers made known the plays and the scenes from Shakespeare’s plays they had selected for the bas-reliefs.
Travel to England by Henry and Emily Folger, 1903 – 1923
Henry Folger was unlike his executive colleagues at the Standard Oil Company in New York who vacationed in Florida and California or cruised the Mediterranean. He took his wife and collecting...
From Bangs to Maggs: Folger Fourth Folios
In 1889, 10 years after he graduated from Amherst College and 84 years before I did, Henry Folger walked “with fear and trepidation” into the foremost book auction house in America, Bangs and Co. on...
Queen Elizabeth’s Corsets
In October 1931, armored trucks left Brooklyn––where Shakespeare collectors Henry and Emily Folger had lived––for a night ride to Washington DC. Security guards packed Colt .45 pistols, riot guns,...
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