Use Google Image Search to find photos, playbills, and portraits of Shakespeare
and his plays:
Bibliography: Images from the Folger Shakespeare Library
Infinite Variety: Exploring
the Folger Shakespeare Library. Edited by Esther Ferington. Washington,
D.C.: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2002; distributed by University of Washington
Press, Seattle. This work, lavishly illustrated with items from the Folger collection,
also covers the history of the Library to date.
Shakespeare: The Globe and the World, by Samuel Schoenbaum. New York:
Folger Shakespeare Library, Oxford University Press, 1979. Perhaps the best
general source for Folger Library images of Shakespeare and his times.
A Catalogue of Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library: "As
Imagination Bodies Forth," by William L. Pressly. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1993. A comprehensive catalog of paintings in the Folger Library.
Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb. Folger Books. Washington,
D.C.: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1979. A 19th century children’s retelling
of 20 of the plays, with frequent illustrations from the Folger collection.
The Widening Circle: The Story of the Folger Shakespeare Library and Its
Collections, by Betty Ann Kane. Washington, D.C.: The Folger Shakespeare
Library, 1976.
Any play in the New Folger Library Shakespeare series of Shakespeare’s
plays, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. New York: Washington
Square Press, published by Pocket Books. These editions of Shakespeare’s
plays contain graphics illustrating the meaning of phrases, words and references
in each play.
The First Folio of Shakespeare, prepared by Charlton Hinman. 2nd Ed.
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1996. This book, also known as The Norton
Facsimile, contains a facsimile photograph of each page of the 1623 edition
of Shakespeare’s Works, taken from the copies in the Folger Library collection.
Included is the famous Droeshout engraving of Shakespeare on the title page.
Folger Library Exhibition Catalogs:
Folger’s Choice: Favorites
on Our Fifty-fifth Anniversary. Washington, DC.: The Folger Shakespeare
Library, 1987. Photographs and descriptions of 54 items from the Folger collections.
A Decade of Collecting: Celebrating Ten Years of Acquisitions 1990-1999.
Washington, D.C.: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2000.
Elizabethan Households: An Anthology, by Lena Cowen Orlin. Washington,
D.C.: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1995; distributed by University of Washington
Press, Seattle. A catalog of an exhibition on private life in Elizabethan England.
Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare’s England, edited by
Mary Anne Caton. Washington, D.C.: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1999; distributed
by University of Washington Press, Seattle.
Roasting the Swan of Avon: Shakespeare’s Redoubtable Enemies and Dubious
Friends, by Bruce R. Smith. Edited by Rachel Doggett. Washington, D.C.:
The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1994.
Shakespeare’s Unruly Women, by Georgianna Ziegler with Frances E.
Dolan and Jeanne Addison Roberts. Washington, D.C.: The Folger Shakespeare Library,
1997; distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle.
Impressions of Wenceslaus Hollar, by Rachel Doggett, Julie L. Biggs,
and Carol Brobeck. Washington, D.C.: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1996; distributed
by University of Washington Press, Seattle.
"Designs from Fancy:" George Romney’s Shakespearean Drawings,
by Yvonne Romney Dixon. Washington, D.C.: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1998;
distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle.
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