The Folger Shakespeare Library, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, is a world-class research center on Shakespeare and on the early modern age in the West. It is home to the world’s largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art.
201 East Capitol Street SE
Washington, District of Columbia 20003
Events:
Folger Theatre: Free Post-Show Discussion on AS YOU LIKE IT
Stay after the performance of William Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT and join in an informal and informative discussion with the production’s cast and crew. Thursday, November 15 immediately followi...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 19:30:00, 2007-11-15 19:30:00
PEN/Faulkner Reading Series: PEN/Malamud Award Memorial Read...
Given in memory of award-winning author Bernard Malamud, the PEN/Malamud Award recognizes excellence in the art of the short story. The 2007 PEN/Malamud Award recipient ELIZABETH SPENCER reads from he...
Category: Education, 20:00:00, 2007-12-07 20:00:00
Folger Poetry: Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute by RICHARD H...
Given annually by poets from diverse backgrounds, this reading celebrates Dickinson's powerful and compelling influence on American poetry. Pulitzer prize-winning poet, scholar, teacher, criti...
Category: Education, 19:30:00, 2007-12-10 19:30:00
Folger Education: Bill’s Buddies
Bill’s Buddies is an educational acting ensemble that performs a 50-minute sampler of Shakespeare’s plays with lots of audience participation. Appropriate for children of all ages and ability leve...
Category: Family, 10:00:00, 2007-12-11 10:00:00
Folger Consort: THE SECOND SHEPHERDS’ PLAY
A rich blend of music and theater, THE SECOND SHEPHERDS’ PLAY is the Wakefield Master’s medieval mystery play. This holiday tale captures both the rustic life of the peasantry and the marvel of th...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 20:00:00, 2007-12-12 20:00:00
THE SECOND SHEPHERDS’ PLAY: Family Free Event
As the Folger Shakespeare Library's holiday gift to you, enjoy the benefits of Folger membership for a day with a special FREE family program around Folger Consort's holiday show, THE ...
Category: Family, 12:00:00, 2007-12-15 12:00:00
Folger Consort: VICTORIA’S REQUIEM
The 1605 Requiem by Tomas Luis de Victoria, the greatest Spanish composer of the late Renaissance, is complemented by rich and resonant works for winds, strings, and keyboard. With Philip Cave’s cha...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2008-01-11 20:00:00
PEN/Faulkner Reading Series: THOMAS MCGUANE
The author of ten novels, three works of non-fiction, and one collection of short stories, McGuane, who frequently focuses on the natural world in the changing American West, will read from his latest...
Category: Education, 20:00:00, 2008-01-18 20:00:00
Folger Poetry: KAY RYAN
Poet Kay Ryan, whose voice is compact and precise, is the recipient of many awards, including the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Award, and a fellowship from the N...
Category: Education, 19:30:00, 2008-01-22 19:30:00
Folger Exhibitions: “History in the Making: How Early Modern...
This exhibit places the act of commemoration at the heart of the study of Renaissance England—both our commemoration of that society, and that society’s commemoration of its past. The Tudor regime...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 00:00:00, 2008-01-24 00:00:00
Words on Will Lectures: JENNIFER LEE CARRELL
In the Words on Will lecture series, Harvard professor and a former writer for Smithsonian magazine Jennifer Lee Carrell discusses her Shakespeare thriller, “Interred With Their Bones”—parts of ...
Category: Education, 19:30:00, 2008-01-25 19:30:00
PEN/Faulkner Reading Series: DANIEL MENDELSOHN, SAMANTHA POW...
Mendelson and Power will join in this panel discussion entitled “Imagination as Subversion: The Role of Imagination in Memoir and Nonfiction.” Both Mendelsohn and Power have won the National Book ...
Category: Education, 20:00:00, 2008-02-08 20:00:00
Folger Poetry: GERALD STERN and ROSS GAY
Stern has won the National Book Award (for his book “This Time: New and Selected Poems”) and the Wallace Stevens Award for mastery in the art of poetry. Gay’s poems have appeared in American Poe...
Category: Education, 19:30:00, 2008-02-11 19:30:00
Folger Consort: Early Music Seminar
In an early music seminar, Folger Consort Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein shares his encyclopedic knowledge on the composer and music of the upcoming concert, SEVEN SONGS OF LOVE. A light-fare rec...
Category: Education, 18:00:00, 2008-02-13 18:00:00
Folger Consort: SEVEN SONGS OF LOVE
Celebrate St. Valentine’s Day with SEVEN SONGS OF LOVE, Western Europe’s first song cycle by 13th-century Gallician poet/singer Martin Codax. Troubadours’ songs and lively dances for fiddles, ha...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2008-02-15 20:00:00
Words on Will Lectures: TELLER
In the Words on Will lecture series, magician Teller, of the famed Penn & Teller duo, talks with Aaron Posner, his creative partner on Folger Theatre's concurrent production of MACBETH...
Category: Education, 18:00:00, 2008-02-27 18:00:00
Folger Theatre: William Shakespeare’s MACBETH
Incited by the witches’ prophecy and his ambitious wife, Macbeth journeys into the heart of darkness in a quest for the throne. Menace and magic surround Shakespeare’s chilling Scottish tragedy. C...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 20:00:00, 2008-02-28 20:00:00
PEN/Faulkner Reading Series: EDWARD P. JONES and DINAW MENGE...
In an evening entitled “Washington Writers: Beyond the Capitol,” Jones and Mengestu read from their latest works. Jones, a Pulitzer Prize winner (“The Known World”), was a finalist for the 200...
Category: Education, 20:00:00, 2008-02-29 20:00:00
Folger Theatre: Pre-Performance Discussion of MACBETH
Gail Kern Paster, Director of Folger Shakespeare Library and editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, shares her perspective on William Shakespeare’s MACBETH, currently playing at Folger Theatre. Wednesday,...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 18:30:00, 2008-03-12 18:30:00
PEN/Faulkner Reading Series: ALICE MCDERMOTT and FRANK MCCOU...
In “An Irish-American Evening,” these best-selling masters of fiction and memoir read from their works. McDermott (“Charming Billy”) is the winner of the National Book Award and The Los Angele...
Category: Education, 20:00:00, 2008-03-14 20:00:00
Folger Theatre: Free Post-Show Discussion of MACBETH
Stay after the performance of William Shakespeare’s MACBETH and join in an informal and informative discussion with the production’s cast and crew. Thursday, March 20 immediately following the 7:3...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 19:30:00, 2008-03-20 19:30:00
Folger Poetry: GALWAY KINNELL and MARK DOTY
In an evening entitled “The Natural World,” these two poets will read from their works. Kinnell has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and is a Chancellor of The Academy of America...
Category: Education, 19:30:00, 2008-03-24 19:30:00
Words on Will Lectures: Shakespeare + Manga
In the Words on Will lecture series, Shakespeare meets manga, a stylized Japanese comic form, in four new renderings of MACBETH, HAMLET, JULIUS CAESAR, and ROMEO AND JULIET. Writer/adapter Adam Sexton...
Category: Education, 19:30:00, 2008-03-31 19:30:00
Folger Education: Bill’s Buddies
Bill’s Buddies is an educational acting ensemble that performs a 50-minute sampler of Shakespeare’s plays with lots of audience participation. Appropriate for children of all ages and ability leve...
Category: Family, 10:00:00, 2008-04-02 10:00:00
PEN/Faulkner Reading Series: STEPHEN KING, TABITHA KING, and...
For “The Three Kings,” this family of authors reads from their latest works. Stephen, the best-selling author of more than 40 novels and 200 short stories, has won the O’Henry Award; his wife Ta...
Category: Education, 20:00:00, 2008-04-04 20:00:00
Folger Poetry: QUINCY TROUPE and TYEHIMBA JESS
Poets Troupe, the recipient of two American Book Awards, and Jess, a winner of the Whiting Writers’ Award, will read from their works. With musical accompaniment by bassist Herman Burney and harmoni...
Category: Education, 19:30:00, 2008-04-07 19:30:00
Folger Consort: Early Music Seminar
In this early music seminar, Folger Consort Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein shares his encyclopedic knowledge on the composer and music of the upcoming Folger Consort concert, HIGHLAND AYRES. A li...
Category: Education, 18:00:00, 2008-04-17 18:00:00
Folger Consort: HIGHLAND AYRES
A treasury of Scottish riches, HIGHLAND AYRES complements Folger Theatre's MACBETH (on stage February 28-April 6). Traditional and courtly, simple and sophisticated songs from the 16th and 17t...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2008-04-18 20:00:00
Folger Shakespeare Library: Garden Tour
Explore Folger Shakespeare Library’s Elizabethan garden filled with a mix of plants mentioned in Shakespeare’s works. Tours are led by a docent on Saturday, April 19 at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Admissi...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 10:00:00, 2008-04-19 10:00:00
Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture, ...
This annual lecture will be given by Alan Stewart, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. In “How Shakespeare Made History,” Stewart explores how, when Shakespeare...
Category: Education, 20:00:00, 2008-04-21 20:00:00
Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare’s Birthday Open Hous...
Celebrate William Shakespeare’s 444th birthday at Folger Shakespeare Library. Enjoy jugglers and jesters, song and dance, stage combat workshops, the Secondary School Shakespeare Festival performanc...
Category: Festivals, 12:00:00, 2008-04-27 12:00:00
Folger Theatre: Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s THE SCHOOL FOR S...
True loves and true characters are revealed amid gossip, clever pretenses, and compromising situations. It’s all Surface and Candour in this witty comedy of very bad manners and irresistible folly. ...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 20:00:00, 2008-05-07 20:00:00
Folger Education: Bill’s Buddies
Bill’s Buddies is an educational acting ensemble that performs a 50-minute sampler of Shakespeare’s plays with lots of audience participation. Appropriate for children of all ages and ability leve...
Category: Family, 10:00:00, 2008-05-09 10:00:00
PEN/Faulkner Reading Series: 28th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award ...
The winner and finalists of America's largest peer-juried prize for fiction read from their acclaimed work. With presentations by judges Richard Bausch, Molly Giles, and Victor LaValle. Follow...
Category: Education, 19:00:00, 2008-05-10 19:00:00
Folger Poetry: Folger Poetry Board Reading, LUCILLE CLIFTON
Clifton, whose prizes and honors including an Emmy, a Lannan Literary Award, and the Ruth Lilly Prize in Poetry, shares both her favorite poems by other poets and her own sagacious, funny, and subvers...
Category: Education, 19:30:00, 2008-05-13 19:30:00
Folger Shakespeare Library: Garden Tour
Explore Folger Shakespeare Library’s Elizabethan garden filled with a mix of plants mentioned in Shakespeare’s works. Tours are led by a docent on Saturday, May 17 at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Admission...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 10:00:00, 2008-05-17 10:00:00
Folger Theatre: Pre-Performance Discussion of THE SCHOOL FOR...
Gail Kern Paster, Director of Folger Shakespeare Library and editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, shares her perspective on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 18th-century comic masterpiece THE SCHOOL FOR SCAN...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 18:30:00, 2008-05-21 18:30:00
Folger Theatre: Free Post-Show Discussion of THE SCHOOL FOR ...
Stay after the performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL and join in an informal and informative discussion with the production’s cast and crew. Thursday, May 29 immediatel...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 19:30:00, 2008-05-29 19:30:00
Folger Exhibitions: “ ‘Now Thrive the Armorers’: Arms and Ar...
Shakespeare's works deal with the themes of chivalry, warfare, conflict, and honor. This exhibition explores the resonances between the Folger's collection—including jousting manuals...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 00:00:00, 2008-06-05 00:00:00