Looking for a way to say “I love you” this Valentine’s Day? Say it with Shakespeare! We’ve got six new Shakespearean Valentines for you to send to that special someone.
Austin Tichenor writes about how, like many of Shakespeare’s plays, the HBO series “The White Lotus” explores power among the privileged and the people who attend them.
It is the dawn of a new year, the ideal time to meet Shakespeare’s herald of the dawn: the lark. Shakespeare mainly employs the lark as a beloved symbol for the morning. Most of the lark’s 27 appearances in Shakespeare’s works feature it welcoming the start of each day with a sweet song.
Sometimes it seems like January and February drag on forever. Thankfully, in 2023, there’s lots of thrilling theater to keep our spirits up. Here’s our round-up of performances from our theater partners across the United States this winter.
To celebrate releasing the 200th episode of the Folger’s Shakespeare Unlimited podcast, we revisit our five most popular episodes to date.
In this radical bilingual reimagining of Shakespeare’s story, Hamlet is a Black and Latinx prince whose sense of identity has been fractured by the loss of his Black father. Read our Q&A with the playwrights, Reynaldo Piniella and Emily Lyon.
