#folger shakespeare library

[garadinervi]

Marjory Bates Pratt, Formal designs from ten Shakespeare sonnets, Comet Press, Brooklyn, NY, 1940

(via Emily Hass)

Plus: Sarah Hovde, Formal designs, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., February 2, 2016

#graphic design #art #poetry #drawing #geometry #pattern #structure #book #cover #book cover #marjory bates pratt #william shakespere #sarah hovde #folger shakespeare library #comet press #1940s #2010s

[shakespearenews]

The Folger Shakespeare Library will reopen June 21, the library announced Tuesday. It has been closed since March 2020, when it began to undertake significant additions that include gardens, an entrance hall, and exhibition space that can show the library’s collection of 82 “first folios”—the largest collection of the 17th century works.  In all, the additions total more than 12,000 square feet. The library was originally slated to reopen last year, but preservation concerns pushed the date to 2024.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #folger shakespeare library

[bookholichany]

Am I going to start collecting them?

Absolutely

#shakespeare #william shakespere #folger shakespeare library #much ado about nothing #hamlet #macbeth #Shakespeare's sonnets and poems #i'm obsessed

[burningvelvet]

William Shakespeare’s handwritten last will and testament, including his presumed final signatures (March 25, 1616). Taken from the Folger Shakespeare Library and the National Archives of England.

#literature #english literature #dark academia #poetry #william shakespeare #history #cool #interesting #shakespeare #folger shakespeare library #folger #library #manuscripts #archives #artefacts #artifacts #lit #books #bookblr #writing #17th century #renaissance #england #english history

[lizziebathory42]

It is definitely implied in the text that Benedick and Beatrice had a thing previously. When the Prince claims Beatrice lost Benedick's heart (after Benedick has a meltdown and storms off from being roasted by Beatrice) she responds:

"Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile, and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one. Marry, once before he won it of me with false dice. Therefore your Grace may well say I have lost it."

"Yeah, he gave me his heart for a while and we used our hearts together. Then he won his heart back using loaded dice, so you can totally say I 'lost' it."

#much ado about nothing #folger shakespeare library #beatrice and benedick

[eopederson]

Escultura de Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra, Plaza España, Madrid, 2016.

Shakespeare family coat of arms, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2020. (Taken a few weeks before COVID-19 and closure for reconstruction of the library rendered it inaccessible.)

Both Cervantes and Shakespeare died on 22 April 1616.

#sculpture #cervantes #madrid #españa #coat of arms #Folger shakespeare library #capitol hill #washington dc #2016 #2020 #photographers

[guy60660]

William Jaggard | Folger Shakespeare Library

#art #William Jaggard #folger shakespeare library

[venicepearl]

Emily Jordan Folger (May 15, 1858 – February 21, 1936), was the wife of Henry Clay Folger and the co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library. During her husband's lifetime, she assisted him in building the world's largest collection of Shakespeare materials. After his death in 1930, she funded the completion of the Folger Shakespeare Library to house the collection, remaining involved with its administration until her death in 1936.

In 1932, she became the third woman to receive an honorary degree from Amherst College, following Mary Emma Woolley, president of Mount Holyoke College, in 1901; and Martha Dickinson Bianchi, editor of Emily Dickinson's poems, in 1931.

#Emily Jordan Folger #women in history #women in literature #XIX century #XX century #people #portrait #photo #photography #Black and White #Folger Shakespeare Library

[fourfeetteninches]

if anyone has access to the folger 2010 hamlet that you can give to me i will kiss you on the mouth (affectionate)

#please i am begging #me using tumblr as it should be used (to resource gather) #hamlet #folger shakespeare library #folger theatre #joseph haj

[britneyshakespeare]

thinking about eric rasmussen who identifies and catalogues known surviving first folios of shakespeare being asked about if it still feels special every time he touches a new first folio and saying

I think it’s rather like a doctor who delivers babies, and you may have delivered 230 babies, but each one is still a miracle, and each one is still beautiful...

#text post #shakespeare #first folio #that's so beautiful #i wanna touch a first folio someday #i wanna sniff one 🥺 i wanna lick the pages 👅 #hypothesis. every surviving first folio has at some point been licked #YOU CANT PROVE IT WRONG! #folger shakespeare library #shakespeare unlimited podcast #eric rasmussen

[bonomovesinmysteriousways]

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.

#Folger Shakespeare Library #Washington D.C.

[shakespearenews]

Pat Carroll backstage in 1990 at the Folger Shakespeare Theater in Washington, where she played Falstaff in “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” Credit: Jim Wilson/The New York Times

A decade later, Ms. Carroll, still looking for challenging work, sought out the role of the conniving, overweight — and male — Falstaff in a production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor” in Washington.

“When Ms. Carroll makes her first entrance,” Frank Rich wrote in The Times, “a nervous silence falls over the audience at the Shakespeare Theater at the Folger here, as hundreds of eyes search for some trace of the woman they’ve seen in a thousand television reruns. What they find instead is a Falstaff who could have stepped out of a formal painted portrait: a balding, aged knight with scattered tufts of silver hair and whiskers, an enormous belly, pink cheeks and squinting, froggy eyes that peer out through boozy mists. The sight is so eerie you grab onto your seat.”

“One realizes,” Mr. Rich continued, “that it is Shakespeare’s character, and not a camp parody, that is being served.”

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #falstaff #henry iv #pat carroll #folger shakespeare library #ursula #little mermaid #on the town #hildy

[bookholichany]

And done...

#a midsummer night's dream #shakespeare #book life #bookblr #book blog #folger shakespeare library

[frogshunnedshadows]

A bit about lost plays of the 'early modern' period.

#shakespeare #cardenio #lost plays #fletcher #english literature #history #folger shakespeare library #wild goose chase #beaumont

[blackfeminism]

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.

#Folger Shakespeare Library #Washington D.C.

[eopederson]

Bas Relief of Pegasus, Folger Shakespeare Library, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, 2014.

At the moment this is not visible as the Library is in the midst of a massive construction project (and fund raising drive), and much of the facing material has been removed. I hope it will be replaced as it is among the glories of the building.

#sculpture #bas relief #pegasus #folger shakespeare library #capitol hill #washington dc #photographers on tumblr #black and white #2014