Letter Locking
Happy #NationalLetterWritingDay! 📝 For hundreds of years, letter writing was one of the few ways to inform and influence people over long distances. And you certainly didn't want your important letter to be perused by prying eyes! 👀
Becca Quam, Museum Education Manager, gives us a tutorial on the Elizabethan art of letter-locking! 💌
The Folger Shakespeare Library has endless gifts for this holiday season. Take a look at what we've got for the plant-enthusiast in your life. 🌿 Come to the gift shop or shop online at shop.folger.edu
Educator and Folger Guide to Teaching Shakespeare contributor Donna Denizé suggests pairing Shakespeare with other texts to enhance the classroom conversation on big topics like race, class, and gender.
Want to learn from Donna in person? She's presenting (along with Peggy O'Brien and Stefanie Jochman) on Pairing Texts for Maximum Learning this afternoon at #NCTE24 National Council of Teachers of English from 2:45 - 4:00 p.m.
And we've got another session, Teaching Shakespeare Is Teaching Race: Courageous Conversations through the Bard, at 1:15 p.m.!
Come for the unit plans, stay for the hot scholarly lecture! We're celebrating the release of the new Folger Guides to Teaching Shakespeare and Dr. Peggy O'Brien, founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Education Department and general editor of the guides, is here to tell teachers what lies in store for them in these books. 📚 💫
Our fabulous Folger Education team is at National Council of Teachers of English #NCTE24 in Boston right now! There's a launch party for the guides tomorrow night from 5:30-6:30 PM in the Green Room at BCEC and two workshops on teaching Shakespeare coming up on Saturday! Come see us if you're at the conference!
Parting is such sweet sorrow...fortunately, YOU have two more weeks to catch ROMEO & JULIET at the Folger! ♥️ Don't miss this fresh and vibrant take on a classic tale.
🎫 : folger.edu/rj
"The show was phenomenal." "So engaging, so accessible." "We laughed the entire time. We cried the entire time."
See what audiences are saying about ROMEO & JULIET, then come see it for yourself 😉 folger.edu/rj
Our intense, fresh, and vibrant production of ROMEO & JULIET is on stage now through November 10th! 💞⚔️🧪
🎫: folger.edu/rj
🎥: Jeffrey Ray
👻 🎃 👹 With the start of spooky season, we give you ... miniature Hamlet in a skull! This tiny edition of Hamlet - with a skull appropriately forming its case - was created by Czech bookbinders, Jan and Jarmila Sobota, in 2009. James L. Harner, a former editor of the World Shakespeare Bibliography, amassed a collection of thousands of miniature Shakespeare books which he gave to the Folger in 2018. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4emH9ZE and then come see it in our Rose Exhibition Hall.
Win a pair of tickets to see Romeo and Juliet at Folger Theatre! Caption the photo in the video and submit in the comments by Fri, Oct 4, 11:59pm.
Winning tickets available for performances through Oct 20, 2024.
Will these Shakespearean characters find their love match?? Who are you rooting for?
📷 Thanks to Renea Brown (director/writer/actor) + Renee Elizabeth Wilson (Rosaline) + John Floyd (Romeo) with Lilli Hokama + Kathryn Zoerb + Hunter Ringsmith + Toby Jacob
Princes and Kings wrote their names in their books too…they’re just like us! Check out Henry VIII's schoolboy copy of Cicero then plan your visit to see it in our Shakespeare Exhibition Hall. Learn more about Henry's book at https://bit.ly/4emH9ZE
Rosaline has entered the Romeo and Juliet group chat...
Folger Theatre performances of Romeo and Juliet begin Oct 1. https://bit.ly/4e1oKSd
