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Podcast from the Folger Institute Library. While print sales of adult fiction are down in the last decade, the juvenile market - which includes YA (Young Adults) - has gone up 40 percent. In this episode,...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The period when Shakespeare was writing was one torn by disagreements over the proper method of observing Christianity in England. Protestantism was at war with...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Since 2002, Gregory and Jeffery Ameen Qaiyum, better known as GQ and JAQ - the Q Brothers - have been using hip-hop to adapt and update the plays of Shakespeare....
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The first collected edition of Shakespeare’s works, printed in 1623, can sell for millions of dollars. But the First Folio wasn’t always valued so highly. In...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Discovered in a treasure-filled parking lot in Leicester, England, an ancient manuscript proves to be the long-lost first play by none other than the young...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The curses associated with the Scottish play or using a real skull for the Yorick scene in Hamlet, over the centuries, these and other theatrical anecdotes have...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Kill Bill is a comic book series in which Shakespeare’s most popular characters team up in rival, warring camps bent on seizing control of the kingdom that is...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Library holds the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, and the crown jewels of that collection are the 82 First Folios. To celebrate 400 years of...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford, and the author of The Making of the First Folio, authenticated the First Folio that was...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In The Tempest, the magician Prospero conjures up a storm, charms his daughter to sleep, and uses his power to control Ariel and other spirits. Is this magic...