library - Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C

Poet Robert Burns was born #OnThisDay in 1759. From our collection, this design for a silver urn features miniatures of Shakespeare (on top), Milton (on the right), and Burns (on the left). Take a closer look at https://bit.ly/3qQ7XIT. #FolgerFinds

"Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associationsnaturally." Virginia Woolf was born #OnThisDay in 1882. Listen to the only known surviving recording of her voice, from the BBC.

Women played key roles in creating, promoting, and ultimately undermining the creations of history's most prolific forger of Shakespeare, William Henry Ireland.

These three 19th-century illustrations of "Hamlet" by John Jellicoe are mounted together to form one object in the Folger collection. Can you guess what’s happening in each scene? #FolgerFinds

This week,Folger Encores revists our 2018 Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture, Shakespeare’s Virtues, delivered by University of California, Irvine professor Julia Reinhard Lupton. In her lecture, Lupton uses a scene from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" as an allegory for placement in social systems. Drawing on interviews with social workers and adoption specialists, she connects the struggle of the shipwrecked Viola to that of any young person set adrift in today's world. Actor Eric Hissom joins her to read from Shakespeare's play. Listen to a full audio recording of the lecture at bit.ly/FSLLupton.