AngieHoffmeister reveals how she created the eerie art for The Folio Society's The Lottery and Other Dark Tales.

AngieHoffmeister reveals how she created the eerie art for The Folio Society's The Lottery and Other Dark Tales.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well” is a famous quote from William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” But do we really know this revered play? Three very different ...

Celebrating Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his first folio.

In any case, in 1893, Folger bought his first copy of a First Folio and never looked back. When Shakespeare died in 1616, no one—not even the playwright himself—believed that his writings ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

The innovative installation promises to be a ‘collaboration between creative entities: living, dead, organic and computational’ ...

A contemporary, true-crime drama… Bonafide Films, the production company the award winning production MOOD, is developing an ...

Writers can do crazy things in quest of a blurb. When Norman Mailer finished his third novel, The Deer Park, he sent a copy ...

William Shakespeare’s First Folio — a collection of plays published in 1623 — is one of the most coveted books in the English language, and it has a price to match. Although those prices can vary. One ...

This collection was called the First Folio. No one can be sure exactly what Shakespeare looked like. The only proven portrait of Shakespeare was produced after his death. There are several other ...

Rylands125 celebrates a key milestone in the library’s history with the development of new exhibition spaces, opening 15 May ...