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A Tour of the Reopened Folger | Part 1
On June 21, the Folger reopens after a four-year renovation. The reimagined Folger has brand-new public exhibition spaces where we can introduce visitors to Shakespeare and his plays, as well as showcase some of the treasures of the Folger’s collection. Behind the scenes in the original building, we’ve also completely revamped the way we serve researchers visiting the world’s largest Shakespeare collection.
In this episode, the first of two parts, celebrate our reopening with us and join Folger Director Michael Witmore and Shakespeare Unlimited host Barbara Bogaev on a tour of our building.
From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast. Published June 18, 2024. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This episode was produced by Matt Frassica. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster. Ben Lauer is the web producer. Leonor Fernandez edits our transcripts. Final mixing services provided by Clean Cuts at Three Seas, Inc.
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Tony Thomas on Choreographing “Metamorphoses” at Folger Theatre without Water
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Go behind the scenes of Folger Theatre’s production of “Metamorphoses” with choreographer Tony Thomas! “Metamorphoses” by Mary Zimmerman and directed by Psalmayene 24 is live on stage at Folger Theatre on Capitol Hill through June 23, 2024. Tickets start at just $20. Purchase here: www.folger.edu/whats-on/metamorphoses/ About “Metamorphoses”: Ovid’s classic stories of the loves, losses, and tra...
Fred Wilson on his New, Othello-Inspired Work for the Folger
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Fred Wilson’s artistic output includes painting, sculpture, photography, and collage, among other media. But his 1992 work “Mining the Museum” at the Maryland Historical Society used the museum’s own collection as its material, radically reframing how American institutions present their art. Wilson went on to represent the United States at the 2003 Venice Biennale. For that exhibition, Wilson c...
Second Chances, Shakespeare, and Freud, with Adam Phillips and Stephen Greenblatt
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The desire for a second chance provides the engine for many of Shakespeare’s plays. In their new book, Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud, Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt and psychologist Adam Phillips argue that this fascination with the second chance links Shakespeare with one of his biggest 20th century fans: Sigmund Freud. Shakespeare helped Freud think about second chances-why we...
“Metamorphoses” is live on stage at Folger Theatre, May 7 - Jun 16, 2024
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"Gorgeously realized production.” The Washington Post Learn more and get tickets: www.folger.edu/whats-on/metamorphoses/ Ovid’s classic stories of the loves, losses, and transformations of gods and mortals are reimagined for the 21st century in Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation directed by Psalmayene 24. Juxtaposing the mythic and the modern, the stories of Aphrodite, Midas, Cupid, and others are tol...
Mary Zimmerman on Adapting Ovid and Directing Shakespeare
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When Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses was on Broadway in 2002, it won a host of awards, including the Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel awards for best play. Zimmerman took home the Tony award for best director. This spring, director Psalmayene 24 and an all-Black cast stage a new production of the play interpreted through the lens of the African diaspora. Zimmerma...
Announcing Folger Theatre's 2024-2025 Season
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Our 2024-2025 Season, entitled Whose Democracy?, presents performances that challenge perceptions and ignite conversations about power and participation. Subscribe today to take advantage of all the best benefits - subscriptions start at just $150! In this video and below, explore details about the individual plays and visit folger.edu/tickets/subscriptions/folger-theatre-subscriptions/ for sub...
Judi Dench On Seven Decades of Shakespeare, with Brendan O’Hea
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In her new book, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent, Dame Judi Dench and actor/director Brendan O'Hea chat about her long history with the Bard. On this episode, Dench and O'Hea join host Barbara Bogaev to talk about Dench's experiences playing Ophelia, Gertrude, Lady Macbeth and Titania. Plus, parrots, Polonius, dirty words, Ian McKellen, why it's easier to laugh while working on a tragedy...
Folger Gala 2024: Reimagine. Return. Reengage
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The Folger's 2024 Gala gave supporters a peek inside our renovated and reimagined Folger Shakespeare Library, which will reopen fully June 21.
Shakespeare and the Environment, with Todd Andrew Borlik
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Land enclosure. Wildlife management. Erosion. Pollution. Mining practices. Today, we’d call these environmental issues. But, hundreds of years before the modern environmental movement coalesced, these issues also appeared in Shakespeare’s plays. We talk to Todd Andrew Borlik, a professor at the University of Huddersfield and author of Shakespeare Beyond the Green World, Drama and Ecopolitics in...
Ramie Targoff on Women Writers of the English Renaissance
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In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf famously imagined what might have happened if Shakespeare had a sister who was as gifted a writer as he was. She invents “Judith” Shakespeare, and concludes that this female genius would have been doomed. But that’s not the end of the story. If Woolf had read Mary Sidney, Aemelia Lanyer (nee Bassano), Anne Clifford, and Elizabeth Carey, she might have thou...
Writing Native Stories in DC: Suzan Shown Harjo & Elizabeth Rule in conversation with Mary Phillips
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Writing Native Stories in DC: Suzan Shown Harjo & Elizabeth Rule in conversation with Mary Phillips
Green World: Michelle Ephraim on Discovering Shakespeare and Reevaluating The Merchant of Venice
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Green World: Michelle Ephraim on Discovering Shakespeare and Reevaluating The Merchant of Venice
Eddie Izzard on Performing Hamlet Solo
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Eddie Izzard on Performing Hamlet Solo
Folger Theatre in Conversation with Madeline Sayet, playwright and performer of “Where We Belong.”
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Folger Theatre in Conversation with Madeline Sayet, playwright and performer of “Where We Belong.”
Shakespeare and Disgust, with Bradley J. Irish
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Shakespeare and Disgust, with Bradley J. Irish
“Where We Belong” by Madeline Sayet at Folger Theatre Feb 15 - Mar 10, 2024
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“Where We Belong” by Madeline Sayet at Folger Theatre Feb 15 - Mar 10, 2024
Folger Institute: What is... Revolution?
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Folger Institute: What is... Revolution?
Rita Dove on Shakespeare and Her Poem of Welcome for the Folger
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Rita Dove on Shakespeare and Her Poem of Welcome for the Folger
Folger Institute: What is... Secularity?
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Folger Institute: What is... Secularity?
Folger Institute: What is... Iconoclasm?
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Folger Institute: What is... Iconoclasm?
John Guy And Julia Fox on Their New Biography of Anne Boleyn
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John Guy And Julia Fox on Their New Biography of Anne Boleyn
The Reading Room Festival 2024
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The Reading Room Festival 2024
David and Ben Crystal Share Shakespeare Quotations for Your Everyday Life
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David and Ben Crystal Share Shakespeare Quotations for Your Everyday Life
What Happened to the Princes in the Tower, with Philippa Langley
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What Happened to the Princes in the Tower, with Philippa Langley
Insights on “The Winter’s Tale” at Folger Theatre from actors Kate Eastwood Norris and Cody Nickell
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Insights on “The Winter’s Tale” at Folger Theatre from actors Kate Eastwood Norris and Cody Nickell
Character insights from Kate Eastwood Norris & Cody Nickell of Folger Theatre’s “The Winter’s Tale”
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Character insights from Kate Eastwood Norris & Cody Nickell of Folger Theatre’s “The Winter’s Tale”
Kate Eastwood Norris & Cody Nickell on “The Winter’s Tale” and being married on and off stage
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Kate Eastwood Norris & Cody Nickell on “The Winter’s Tale” and being married on and off stage
Will Somer: Peter K. Andersson on Henry VIII's Court Fool
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Will Somer: Peter K. Andersson on Henry VIII's Court Fool
A conversation with director Tamilla Woodard about “The Winter’s Tale,” live on stage through Dec 17
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A conversation with director Tamilla Woodard about “The Winter’s Tale,” live on stage through Dec 17

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  • @Hydrafobicdog
    @Hydrafobicdog 7 днів тому

    shirts fire

  • @MrMjolnir69
    @MrMjolnir69 7 днів тому

    It's a hint.

  • @bastianconrad2550
    @bastianconrad2550 12 днів тому

    Historical records do not conclusively verify Sir Thomas North as the author of a travel journal from the year 1555, I recommend to Dennis McCarthy & Jane Schlueter a recent book by Hungarian Publisher, Editor and Graphologist Pal Faklen (Budapest), entitled :„Marlowe‘s Resurrection, or a key to the Shakespeare Enigma“ (2024) There , he as a Graphologist, recommends, that the appropriate designation of the journal kept in the Lambeth Palace Library would be „Thomas North Journal of the journey to Rome in 1555, t r a n s c r I b e d. by Christopher Marlowe (aka as TRUE shakespeare)page 74 www.youtube.com/@bastianconrad2550

  • @deejay306
    @deejay306 14 днів тому

    So proud of my lil cuzzo, doing big things. Always been talented from a child, glad he is realizing some of his dreams and goals! Auntie Denise loves you and what your doing!!!

  • @melon-melon71
    @melon-melon71 19 днів тому

    The sisters need a record deal immediately

  • @gregbrown5020
    @gregbrown5020 22 дні тому

    Harold Bloom was right. The war is lost to the resenters. The Folger board went woke and assigned a director intent on assigning lenses on originality. This is justified as promoting more nuance and progressivism. Ethical absolutism shoved down our throat. A religious crusade reveling in wokeness.

  • @B_lov
    @B_lov 23 дні тому

    Saw “Othello - The Remix” last night at Stages in Houston. It blew my mind! Although I’ve loved everything I’ve seen at Stages, this is the first time I’ve ever wanted to go see it again before it closes. If you ever get a chance, GO SEE IT!!!

  • @solomon6728
    @solomon6728 26 днів тому

    Shakespeare was black

  • @Toracube
    @Toracube 27 днів тому

    Thanks for this. Much enjoyed.

  • @xmaseveeve5259
    @xmaseveeve5259 Місяць тому

    See Ros Barber. It's nonsense...

  • @raularaujo1329
    @raularaujo1329 Місяць тому

    Shakespeare was the first gangsta poet/ rapper. Romeo and Juliet is about gangs and violence 😎

  • @jalapenobusiness9217
    @jalapenobusiness9217 Місяць тому

    Meekrowavé

  • @brutusalwaysminded
    @brutusalwaysminded Місяць тому

    Thank You! 🙂

  • @jaydeepchipalkatti
    @jaydeepchipalkatti Місяць тому

    This is very funny, but 'Fermat' is mispronounced throughout. It is 'Fer-Maa' with 't' silent.

  • @brendanbeirne2
    @brendanbeirne2 Місяць тому

    I took a Shakespeare course at Cal with Steven Justice in the late 90s and he mentioned that The Winter's Tale was his favorite Shakespeare play... weird, the things one remembers.

  • @kingherodthegreat1
    @kingherodthegreat1 Місяць тому

    Thank you for making this. The Walker family thanks you . Sarah Snow lineage. William Walker.

  • @user-kd2ev1qb5r
    @user-kd2ev1qb5r Місяць тому

    What is compiling list of names green world?

  • @mabdullahrana171
    @mabdullahrana171 2 місяці тому

    Hello

  • @TUBESPECIFIC1
    @TUBESPECIFIC1 2 місяці тому

    This is so magnificent and beautiful. I've watched it multiple times. What does pantaloone mean on the stain glass window of a man's life cycle? The arts? It looks like my life except I wasn't that wealthy.

  • @Michael-ye4mk
    @Michael-ye4mk 2 місяці тому

    My Major was Fine ARTS, my minor was Theater Arts. Way back 1966l5 to 1970. I took an Evening class for Three months, made a B, and 4 years of Art history. The history class was on Henry the 8th, Elizabeth the first. To drop the Arts, in a mortal Sin!!!!! All the ARTS are important and essential. Only. Idiots would do away with them. Sadly, no classes were offered in Art Biz and how to make a living as a professional Fine Artist. Being very nervous, I entered Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa and earned my Masters of Divinity in May 1974. The Reverend Michael Edwin Simonds, Minnesota, where it is always my Winter of Discontent. Iike it HOT

  • @zippyspring
    @zippyspring 2 місяці тому

    Wow! Thank you kindly, Dr. Akhimie for outlining so clearly what is at stake in our modern reading(s) of Othello, and its echoes with a non post-racial world. And thank you for illustrating so brilliantly how to do close readings for an audience who might not be familiar with the play. Make it plain!!

  • @Moose.-vy5ye
    @Moose.-vy5ye 2 місяці тому

    Oh, god. Another "historian" who is simply repeating Tudor propaganda and not putting any leg work, nor critical thinking into his work. David Baldwin attempts to be objective; but, he cannot be such when he ascribes the 500++ year old bs of motivations to Richard - which cannot be known, while completely ignoring the constitutional crisis, Stillington, and the Three Estates in June 1483, and parliament in February 1484. It's unfortunate that a good historian couldn't be found for this podcast. It's almost completely worthless.

  • @michaelpcoffee
    @michaelpcoffee 2 місяці тому

    Shakespeare has no connection to BLM at all.

  • @timothymeehan181
    @timothymeehan181 2 місяці тому

    MacDuff’s chuckling, snickering, at some of Malcolm’s self-reproach in Act 4, Scene 3……good God! One of the most serious, important, heavy scenes in the whole play, and the actor playing MacDuff decides to go full on “junior high” production. How did the director not stop him dead in his tracks? How was this allowed?. I’d have grabbed him by the balls, literally, and squeezed with all my strength every time he slipped into such bafoonery. & Malcolm, not much better. Dude is laaaaaaaaaaaboring over his lines in this scene, really indulging himself….. rather than communicating what Shakespeare’s given him here. Oy-VAY!! 🤡🙈😱🥸

  • @timothymeehan181
    @timothymeehan181 2 місяці тому

    This isn’t bad, an above average production, to be sure. Minor criticism- the script editing(omissions) was highly ill-advised, as the play is short enough to begin with and gathers steam(pace) as it moves forward. Also, some of the actors consciously PUNCHING certain words smacks a bit of pandering , of amateurism….and some others seem to’ve never heard of a fourth wall, and ought to try it sometime, as that’s what creates real life, real human beings actually interacting, rather than making speeches to the audience….🙏🎭

  • @harshaweeraratne5806
    @harshaweeraratne5806 3 місяці тому

    Dear Surekha, this is your own dear mother ,dying of heart break as you have cut us off.Now I do not want to live any more.You have not given us your adress and has bloced the email for such a long time.I never knew people can be so cruel.I was not eating properly or sleeping at night and I bacame weak.I had no appetite and could not sleep as you had cut us off.In dEC.I got Pneumonia as I was weak.I never vn go to my own veraandha.I do not go about as before to get serious infections.After that I got a lower respiratory tract infection.Then it became worse.I was in Lanka HOspitals 5 times since Dec 2023.Only now I am at home, but feel weak.I had to take Melot sleeping pills 12 and Risnea 2 to sleep at night.It was hell during day time too because of it. Now I am down to 6 Melot instead of 12.and feel better.Dad spent a mint of money on hospitals.They are not free.You shoud unblock the email.If I am such a bad mothr you wouldnt have gone to Cambridge.It is such a sin to mak your mother sufffr like thisDont turn th comments off I can not bleive anybody human can do that .We all cared for you so much.Remember you wrote to seeya that you are not happy ? Now I am much worse than than that.I will stop now as this has made me tired.Lots of Love, Amma.

  • @amusicment4829
    @amusicment4829 3 місяці тому

    So lovely, thank you!

  • @madam-mim
    @madam-mim 3 місяці тому

    4:20 My father, sitting beside me, quickly turned to look at the screen to see what that was about. 💀

  • @briseypops
    @briseypops 3 місяці тому

    Robert Richmond was one of the greatest directors of Shakespeare in the US. A genius at making the plays accessible, visceral and vibrant. A titan of modern Shakespeare. We'll never see the like again.

  • @beaulah_califa9867
    @beaulah_califa9867 3 місяці тому

    Hopelessly flawed and terribly outdated scholarship. It's proven this is not the author's face AND that this insulting portrait makes a "FIGURE" or CLOWN of this person (never is he called "author") who has 2 right eyes, in a doublet w/ left arms mismatched to right shoulders. The whole this is a mashup of wrong & ill-fitting pieces. Just read what Ben Jonson wrote about a man no one noticed had died for 7-years.

  • @QaddorAlabbas
    @QaddorAlabbas 3 місяці тому

    I want to watch the play of the way of the world completely

  • @rsan9854
    @rsan9854 4 місяці тому

    beautiful commentary!

  • @danielleburning2965
    @danielleburning2965 4 місяці тому

    My anxiety thanks you for this video!

  • @brooks1286
    @brooks1286 4 місяці тому

    'Promo sm'

  • @Lena_Afton_.0
    @Lena_Afton_.0 4 місяці тому

    help, i did not think the witches would be this creeeeepppyyy😰😭

  • @bellasgonemissing9705
    @bellasgonemissing9705 4 місяці тому

    this is awesome! thanks for uploading it and especially for the captions!!

  • @DerekIsADino0605
    @DerekIsADino0605 4 місяці тому

    men of culture

  • @davyfiore
    @davyfiore 4 місяці тому

    Very helpful glimpse into this part of Shakespeare's history. Thanks!

  • @captainsensiblejr.
    @captainsensiblejr. 5 місяців тому

    I believe, like many scholars, that it is a hoax created by Edward Kelley, the scurrilous, fraudulent, spiritual medium and magical assistant of the great English mystic, Sir John Dee, who was Queen Elizabeth the First's spymaster and astrologer. Kelley's character is shown by his claim to Dee that heavenly, not fallen, Angels had given a holy dispensation for them to swap wives (!). It is believed the manuscript was sold to Ferdinand V (1596-1632) the Elector of Bohemia, a Calvinist Prince who wanted to be the Holy Roman Emperor - who was fascinated by alchemy and other hidden arts (not witchcraft) of the ancient Greek Neo-Platonic magical traditions. It is theorised that when John Dee and Edward Kelly were travelling in Europe in 1613, to facilitate an English- Bohemian Protestant alliance, cemented by the marriage of Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the Scottish King James the First of England and Frederick V. Scholars believe he faked the manuscript, probably fooling even John Dee with his hoax, selling it to Frederick V, as a genuine grimoire, for a great deal of money.

  • @Noumanielts
    @Noumanielts 5 місяців тому

    Love the witches song ❤❤

  • @richardwaugaman1505
    @richardwaugaman1505 5 місяців тому

    Iconoclasm is...using critical thinking skills and an evidence-based approach to interrogate who the real Shakespeare was, during what scholar Marcy North has called a golden age of anonymous (including allonymous) authorship? No?

  • @lunarmagpie619
    @lunarmagpie619 5 місяців тому

    Very excited to watch, and I was thrilled to see accurate captioning on the video! Thank you for that.

  • @amytaint9389
    @amytaint9389 5 місяців тому

    Amazing staging - WOW

  • @user-zi9iw9hn3t
    @user-zi9iw9hn3t 5 місяців тому

    5:45, 6:43, 8:31, 11:40, 49:21, 49:53

  • @shaadigor4717
    @shaadigor4717 5 місяців тому

    The beginning is a microcosm is such a good point, i cant believe this video has no comments

  • @Gabe6885
    @Gabe6885 6 місяців тому

    Terrible play, terrible acting. I wanna cry. NEVER WATCH

    • @poocabraxi
      @poocabraxi Місяць тому

      THANK YOU I THOUGHT I WAS BUGGING 🤔🤌🇬🇧

  • @jocelyn4748
    @jocelyn4748 6 місяців тому

    23:57

  • @jocelyn4748
    @jocelyn4748 6 місяців тому

    23:40

  • @jocelyn4748
    @jocelyn4748 6 місяців тому

    22:54

  • @tavisreddick6934
    @tavisreddick6934 6 місяців тому

    The emotional portrayal of the Macbeths, now separated, was I think successfully carried over from the first half, with particular note on how the news of Lady Macbeth's death changes Macbeth (not evident in dumber productions). Most pleasingly was the inclusion of two key speeches (perversely omitted in other productions) of Lady Macduff (mrs-wren-against-the-owl) and Malcolm's dialogue with Macduff about how vicious and vile Kings tend to be. The strong theme of the play, that male valour is as much a myth as female cowardice, to the extent that the reality is more likely a reversal, is almost embedded in this worthy performance/production, but it does cut a few relevant speeches. In finishing, I would like to praise some of the acting, stagecraft, design and basically leaning-into-it that has made this the most satisfactory Macbeth for me since I first saw the play and was wowed by it.

    • @poocabraxi
      @poocabraxi Місяць тому

      YOU HAVE VERY POOR TASTE 🤌🧐🇬🇧