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We're throwing Shakespeare an online birthday part

We're throwing Shakespeare an online birthday party, and you're invited! Visit www.folger.edu/birthday to find ways to join. Now through April 23, share your creations with us on social media with hashtag #ShareYourShakespeare. You can. . .

👄 Speak a speech
🎭 Stage a scene
🖋️ Write a sonnet
🎂 Make a meal
🕺 Strike a pose
🍿 Watch a show
🎊 And much, much more

Don't forget to tag us @folgerlibrary! We can't wait to see how you celebrate Shakespeare. Tap the link in our bio for more.
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A National Poetry Month challenge: Tap the link in

A National Poetry Month challenge: Tap the link in our bio to test your knowledge of Shakespeare's Sonnets! Take our quizzes and see if you can correctly order the lines of some of Shakespeare's most famous poems. Tell us your score in the comments.
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From the Folger's collection: "Shakespeare's Sonnets," the first printed edition of all Shakespeare's sonnets, from 1609. Folger STC 22353. #FolgerFinds #LinkInBio
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Actor and activist Paul Robeson was born #OnThisDa

Actor and activist Paul Robeson was born #OnThisDay, April 9, in 1898. Robeson's famous 1930 and 1943 productions of "Othello" made him the first Black man to play Othello with a mixed-race cast in over a century. His 1943 Broadway production of the play, directed by Margaret Webster and co-starring Uta Hagen, still holds the record for being the longest running Shakespeare revival on Broadway. Tap the link in our bio to learn more about Robeson, and to see costume designs, prompt books, and Robeson's contract for the shows, all from the Folger's collection.
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From the Folger's collection: Robert Edmond Jones's costume design for Paul Robeson as Othello in the 1943 Broadway production (ink and gouache drawing with fabric swatches attached) (Folger ART Box J79 no.1). #LinkInBio #FolgerFinds

If you could rewrite the ending of one of Shakespe

If you could rewrite the ending of one of Shakespeare's plays, which one would you pick? What would you change?
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From the Folger's collection: "The Works of Shakespeare: Carefully Prepared from the Earliest and more Modern Editions." The editors of this edition write that its text has been "Selected, where commentators have differed as to the sense of obscured or doubtful passages, from those readings which the ablest critics believe to be the most Shakespearian and best suited to a popular edition; with illustrations." (Folger Folio PR2754 1q6 copy 2 Sh.Col.). #FolgerFinds #PublishersBindingThursday
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⚡⚡⚡ This Wednesday on the Shakespeare Lightn

⚡⚡⚡ This Wednesday on the Shakespeare Lightning Round, Paul Edmondson, Head of Learning and Research at @ShakespeareBTrust and co-editor of "All the Sonnets of Shakespeare," joins us to talk about the joys of reading Shakespeare's sonnets and answer our 30 lightning-fast Shakespeare questions. Tune in April 7 at noon EDT, live, right here on Instagram. ⚡⚡⚡
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Looking for more on the sonnets for National Poetry Month? Tap the link in our bio to read an excerpt from the introduction of Edmondson and Sir Stanley Wells's "All the Sonnets of Shakespeare." #LinkInBio #ShakespeareLightningRound

Five-sixths of the plays originally written and pe

Five-sixths of the plays originally written and performed in early modern England—roughly 3,000 of them—are lost. On a new episode of Shakespeare Unlimited, Lost Plays Database co-founder David McInnis explains how lost plays are the negative space that surrounds and shapes our knowledge of the drama that survives. Tap the link in our bio to listen to our interview.
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📸: From the @Illinois_rbml, a fragment of a Stationer's Account Book listing "Love's Labor's Won," a lost play, in a list of Shakespeare's other plays.

How well do you know Shakespeare's fools? Tap the

How well do you know Shakespeare's fools? Tap the link in our bio to test your foolish faculties with an April Fools Day quiz. Then, tell us your score in the comments! #AprilFoolsDay
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From our collection: a costume rendering for Touchstone in Shakespeare's "As You Like It" by Claud Lovat Fraser, 1918. Folger ART Box F848 no.1 (size L). #FolgerFinds

What's the best production of "Much Ado About Noth

What's the best production of "Much Ado About Nothing" you've ever seen? Tell us in the comments! From our collection: a copy of composer Tikhon Khrennikov's incidental music for the Vakhtangov Theatre’s 1936 production of "Much Ado About Nothing." The music was published in 1939. This item, Folger Sh.Misc. 2199, was adopted by Melissa and Sean McKenna at the Folger's annual Acquisitions Night in 2014. #FolgerFinds
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Tap the link in our bio to listen to the newest ep

Tap the link in our bio to listen to the newest episode of Shakespeare Unlimited! Stephen Hopkins was a tavern keeper who may have lightly mutinied while shipwrecked in Bermuda in 1609. Did he inspire the character of Stephano, the drunken butler from "The Tempest?" We ask Hopkins's descendant, filmmaker Andrew Buckley of @hitandrunhistory. Buckley's documentary "Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare's Shipwreck," traces his peripatetic ancestor's journeys on the ill-fated Sea Venture and the Mayflower. #LinkInBio #Podcast

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