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href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/10-shakespeare-quotes-about-fear/"><span class="u-hidden-visually">10 Shakespeare quotes about fear</span></a> <figure class="c-post-card__fig"> <img src="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/10/036480_FB.jpg?fit=10%2C10" data-srcset="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/10/036480_FB.jpg?fit=300%2C300 300w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/10/036480_FB.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024 1024w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/10/036480_FB.jpg?fit=10%2C10 10w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/10/036480_FB.jpg?fit=50%2C50 50w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/10/036480_FB.jpg?fit=100%2C100 100w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/10/036480_FB.jpg?fit=200%2C200 200w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/10/036480_FB.jpg?fit=500%2C500 500w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/10/036480_FB.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000 1000w" class="lazyload" data-sizes="auto" alt="" title="036480_FB" width=1200 height=630 /> </figure> <div class="c-post-card__details c-content"> <span class="c-post-card__type">Shakespeare and Beyond</span> <h3 class="c-post-card__title"><span>10 Shakespeare quotes about fear</span></h3> <div class="c-post-card__meta"> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Posted</span> <time class="c-post-card__published-date" datetime="2023-10-24 18:49"> October 24, 2023 </time> </div> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Author</span> <div class="c-post-card__authors"> <span>Ben Lauer</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card__excerpt"> <p>As Halloween approaches, we take a look at Shakespeare’s best quotations about fear.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card"> <a class="c-post-card__cover-link" href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/quiz-hamlet-or-polonius/"><span class="u-hidden-visually">Quiz: Hamlet or Polonius?</span></a> <figure class="c-post-card__fig"> <img src="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/08/357_Hamlet_crJeffMalet_2015.jpg?fit=10%2C10" data-srcset="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/08/357_Hamlet_crJeffMalet_2015.jpg?fit=300%2C300 300w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/08/357_Hamlet_crJeffMalet_2015.jpg?fit=10%2C10 10w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/08/357_Hamlet_crJeffMalet_2015.jpg?fit=50%2C50 50w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/08/357_Hamlet_crJeffMalet_2015.jpg?fit=100%2C100 100w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/08/357_Hamlet_crJeffMalet_2015.jpg?fit=200%2C200 200w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/08/357_Hamlet_crJeffMalet_2015.jpg?fit=500%2C500 500w" class="lazyload" data-sizes="auto" alt="Hamlet in a ruff" title="Hamlet" width=800 height=500 /> </figure> <div class="c-post-card__details c-content"> <span class="c-post-card__type">Shakespeare and Beyond</span> <h3 class="c-post-card__title"><span>Quiz: Hamlet or Polonius?</span></h3> <div class="c-post-card__meta"> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Posted</span> <time class="c-post-card__published-date" datetime="2023-08-11 15:30"> August 11, 2023 </time> </div> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Author</span> <div class="c-post-card__authors"> <span>Shakespeare & Beyond</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card__excerpt"> <p>Who said it: Hamlet or Polonius? Test your knowledge of these well-known lines from <em>Hamlet</em>.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card"> <a class="c-post-card__cover-link" href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/qa-reading-room-reynaldo-piniella-and-emily-lyon-on-their-new-bilingual-adaptation-of-hamlet/"><span class="u-hidden-visually">Q&A: Reynaldo Piniella and Emily Lyon on their bilingual Hamlet</span></a> <figure class="c-post-card__fig"> <img src="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/02/Emily-Reynaldo-headshots.jpg?fit=10%2C10" data-srcset="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/02/Emily-Reynaldo-headshots.jpg?fit=300%2C300 300w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/02/Emily-Reynaldo-headshots.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024 1024w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/02/Emily-Reynaldo-headshots.jpg?fit=10%2C10 10w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/02/Emily-Reynaldo-headshots.jpg?fit=50%2C50 50w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/02/Emily-Reynaldo-headshots.jpg?fit=100%2C100 100w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/02/Emily-Reynaldo-headshots.jpg?fit=200%2C200 200w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/02/Emily-Reynaldo-headshots.jpg?fit=500%2C500 500w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/02/Emily-Reynaldo-headshots.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000 1000w" class="lazyload" data-sizes="auto" alt="Reynaldo Piniella and Emily Lyon" title="Reynaldo Piniella and Emily Lyon" width=1200 height=600 /> </figure> <div class="c-post-card__details c-content"> <span class="c-post-card__type">Shakespeare and Beyond</span> <h3 class="c-post-card__title"><span>Q&A: Reynaldo Piniella and Emily Lyon on their bilingual Hamlet</span></h3> <div class="c-post-card__meta"> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Posted</span> <time class="c-post-card__published-date" datetime="2023-01-06 10:00"> January 6, 2023 </time> </div> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Author</span> <div class="c-post-card__authors"> <span>Shakespeare & Beyond</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card__excerpt"> <p>In this bilingual <em>Hamlet</em>, a Black and Latinx prince has his sense of identity fractured by the loss of his Black father.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card"> <a class="c-post-card__cover-link" href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/dia-de-los-muertos-ofrenda-shakespeares-afterlives/"><span class="u-hidden-visually">An Ofrenda to Shakespeare’s Afterlives</span></a> <figure class="c-post-card__fig"> <img src="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/10/hamlet-principe-denmark.jpg?fit=10%2C10" data-srcset="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/10/hamlet-principe-denmark.jpg?fit=300%2C300 300w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/10/hamlet-principe-denmark.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024 1024w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/10/hamlet-principe-denmark.jpg?fit=10%2C10 10w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/10/hamlet-principe-denmark.jpg?fit=50%2C50 50w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/10/hamlet-principe-denmark.jpg?fit=100%2C100 100w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/10/hamlet-principe-denmark.jpg?fit=200%2C200 200w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/10/hamlet-principe-denmark.jpg?fit=500%2C500 500w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/10/hamlet-principe-denmark.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000 1000w" class="lazyload" data-sizes="auto" alt="A man holding a calavera" title="amlet, El Príncipe de Denmark" width=1200 height=672 /> </figure> <div class="c-post-card__details c-content"> <span class="c-post-card__type">Shakespeare and Beyond</span> <h3 class="c-post-card__title"><span>An Ofrenda to Shakespeare’s Afterlives</span></h3> <div class="c-post-card__meta"> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Posted</span> <time class="c-post-card__published-date" datetime="2022-10-25 13:50"> October 25, 2022 </time> </div> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Author</span> <div class="c-post-card__authors"> <span>Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card__excerpt"> <p>Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos write about stage adaptations of “Hamlet” and “Romeo and Juliet” that engage with Día de los Muertos traditions, reframing Shakespeare’s meditations on life and death according to Indigenous and Latinx worldviews.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card"> <a class="c-post-card__cover-link" href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/soliloquy-hamlet-elizabethan-mind-excerpt-helen-hackett/"><span class="u-hidden-visually">The soliloquy and Hamlet - Excerpt: 'The Elizabethan Mind' by Helen Hackett</span></a> <figure class="c-post-card__fig"> <img src="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/08/Elizabethan-Mind-book-cover-1.jpg?fit=10%2C10" data-srcset="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/08/Elizabethan-Mind-book-cover-1.jpg?fit=300%2C300 300w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/08/Elizabethan-Mind-book-cover-1.jpg?fit=10%2C10 10w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/08/Elizabethan-Mind-book-cover-1.jpg?fit=50%2C50 50w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/08/Elizabethan-Mind-book-cover-1.jpg?fit=100%2C100 100w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/08/Elizabethan-Mind-book-cover-1.jpg?fit=200%2C200 200w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/08/Elizabethan-Mind-book-cover-1.jpg?fit=500%2C500 500w" class="lazyload" data-sizes="auto" alt="The Elizabethan Mind" title="The Elizabethan Mind" width=400 height=599 /> </figure> <div class="c-post-card__details c-content"> <span class="c-post-card__type">Shakespeare and Beyond</span> <h3 class="c-post-card__title"><span>The soliloquy and Hamlet - Excerpt: 'The Elizabethan Mind' by Helen Hackett</span></h3> <div class="c-post-card__meta"> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Posted</span> <time class="c-post-card__published-date" datetime="2022-08-09 10:00"> August 9, 2022 </time> </div> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Author</span> <div class="c-post-card__authors"> <span>Shakespeare & Beyond</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card__excerpt"> <p>Helen Hackett explores Shakespeare’s use of the soliloquy in “Hamlet,” including the famous “To be or not to be” speech, in this excerpt from her new book, “The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty,” published…</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card"> <a class="c-post-card__cover-link" href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/hamlet-the-northman-amleth-madness/"><span class="u-hidden-visually">Bothered by madness: 'Hamlet' and 'The Northman'</span></a> <figure class="c-post-card__fig"> <img src="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/the-northman-fb.jpg?fit=10%2C10" data-srcset="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/the-northman-fb.jpg?fit=300%2C300 300w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/the-northman-fb.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024 1024w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/the-northman-fb.jpg?fit=10%2C10 10w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/the-northman-fb.jpg?fit=50%2C50 50w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/the-northman-fb.jpg?fit=100%2C100 100w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/the-northman-fb.jpg?fit=200%2C200 200w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/the-northman-fb.jpg?fit=500%2C500 500w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/the-northman-fb.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000 1000w" class="lazyload" data-sizes="auto" alt="Alexander Skarsgård in The Northman" title="The Northman" width=1200 height=630 /> </figure> <div class="c-post-card__details c-content"> <span class="c-post-card__type">Shakespeare and Beyond</span> <h3 class="c-post-card__title"><span>Bothered by madness: 'Hamlet' and 'The Northman'</span></h3> <div class="c-post-card__meta"> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Posted</span> <time class="c-post-card__published-date" datetime="2022-05-27 10:00"> May 27, 2022 </time> </div> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Author</span> <div class="c-post-card__authors"> <span>Austin Tichenor</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card__excerpt"> <p>Robert Eggers’s “The Northman” is not an adaptation of “Hamlet,” but a film in conversation with Shakespeare’s play, Austin Tichenor writes.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card"> <a class="c-post-card__cover-link" href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/allan-clayton-hamlet-opera-brett-dean/"><span class="u-hidden-visually">Q&A: Allan Clayton on playing Hamlet in Brett Dean's opera</span></a> <figure class="c-post-card__fig"> <img src="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/allan-clayton-hamlet-fb.jpg?fit=10%2C10" data-srcset="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/allan-clayton-hamlet-fb.jpg?fit=300%2C300 300w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/allan-clayton-hamlet-fb.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024 1024w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/allan-clayton-hamlet-fb.jpg?fit=10%2C10 10w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/allan-clayton-hamlet-fb.jpg?fit=50%2C50 50w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/allan-clayton-hamlet-fb.jpg?fit=100%2C100 100w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/allan-clayton-hamlet-fb.jpg?fit=200%2C200 200w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/allan-clayton-hamlet-fb.jpg?fit=500%2C500 500w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/05/allan-clayton-hamlet-fb.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000 1000w" class="lazyload" data-sizes="auto" alt="Allan Clayton as Hamlet" title="Allan Clayton as Hamlet" width=1200 height=630 /> </figure> <div class="c-post-card__details c-content"> <span class="c-post-card__type">Shakespeare and Beyond</span> <h3 class="c-post-card__title"><span>Q&A: Allan Clayton on playing Hamlet in Brett Dean's opera</span></h3> <div class="c-post-card__meta"> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Posted</span> <time class="c-post-card__published-date" datetime="2022-05-24 15:00"> May 24, 2022 </time> </div> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Author</span> <div class="c-post-card__authors"> <span>Shakespeare & Beyond</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card__excerpt"> <p>Hamlet sings! A new opera version of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is onstage now at the Metropolitan Opera, with tenor Allan Clayton resuming the title role that he played for the opera’s world premiere at the Glyndebourne Festival.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card"> <a class="c-post-card__cover-link" href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/batman-shakespeare-hamlet-gotham/"><span class="u-hidden-visually">Something is rotten in the state of Gotham: Shakespeare and The Batman</span></a> <figure class="c-post-card__fig"> <img src="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/04/batman.jpg?fit=10%2C10" data-srcset="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/04/batman.jpg?fit=300%2C300 300w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/04/batman.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024 1024w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/04/batman.jpg?fit=10%2C10 10w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/04/batman.jpg?fit=50%2C50 50w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/04/batman.jpg?fit=100%2C100 100w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/04/batman.jpg?fit=200%2C200 200w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/04/batman.jpg?fit=500%2C500 500w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2022/04/batman.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000 1000w" class="lazyload" data-sizes="auto" alt="Batman" title="Batman" width=1200 height=630 /> </figure> <div class="c-post-card__details c-content"> <span class="c-post-card__type">Shakespeare and Beyond</span> <h3 class="c-post-card__title"><span>Something is rotten in the state of Gotham: Shakespeare and The Batman</span></h3> <div class="c-post-card__meta"> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Posted</span> <time class="c-post-card__published-date" datetime="2022-04-19 15:30"> April 19, 2022 </time> </div> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Author</span> <div class="c-post-card__authors"> <span>Austin Tichenor</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card__excerpt"> <p>Austin Tichenor draws connections between Hamlet and Batman, noting the range of interpretations.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card"> <a class="c-post-card__cover-link" href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/folger-finds-hamlet-in-japan-photographs/"><span class="u-hidden-visually">Folger Finds: Photographs of <em>Hamlet</em> in Japan</span></a> <figure class="c-post-card__fig"> <img src="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/07/Claudius_Gertrude_Hamlet1933.jpg?fit=10%2C10" data-srcset="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/07/Claudius_Gertrude_Hamlet1933.jpg?fit=300%2C300 300w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/07/Claudius_Gertrude_Hamlet1933.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024 1024w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/07/Claudius_Gertrude_Hamlet1933.jpg?fit=10%2C10 10w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/07/Claudius_Gertrude_Hamlet1933.jpg?fit=50%2C50 50w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/07/Claudius_Gertrude_Hamlet1933.jpg?fit=100%2C100 100w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/07/Claudius_Gertrude_Hamlet1933.jpg?fit=200%2C200 200w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/07/Claudius_Gertrude_Hamlet1933.jpg?fit=500%2C500 500w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/07/Claudius_Gertrude_Hamlet1933.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000 1000w" class="lazyload" data-sizes="auto" alt="Claudius and Gertrude in Hamlet" title="Claudius and Gertrude in Hamlet" width=1068 height=817 /> </figure> <div class="c-post-card__details c-content"> <span class="c-post-card__type">Shakespeare and Beyond</span> <h3 class="c-post-card__title"><span>Folger Finds: Photographs of <em>Hamlet</em> in Japan</span></h3> <div class="c-post-card__meta"> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Posted</span> <time class="c-post-card__published-date" datetime="2021-07-06 14:00"> July 6, 2021 </time> </div> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Author</span> <div class="c-post-card__authors"> <span>Shakespeare & Beyond</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card__excerpt"> <p>In a recent post on the Folger’s Collation blog, assistant curator Elizabeth DeBold shared a small set of photographs, newly added to the Folger collection, that document a 1933 Japanese production of Hamlet: These five photos provide a glimpse of…</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card"> <a class="c-post-card__cover-link" href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/history-behind-ian-mckellen-hamlet/"><span class="u-hidden-visually">Not of an age: The history behind Ian McKellen’s Hamlet</span></a> <figure class="c-post-card__fig"> <img src="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/05/hamlet-mckellen-TWI.jpg?fit=10%2C10" data-srcset="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/05/hamlet-mckellen-TWI.jpg?fit=300%2C300 300w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/05/hamlet-mckellen-TWI.jpg?fit=10%2C10 10w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/05/hamlet-mckellen-TWI.jpg?fit=50%2C50 50w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/05/hamlet-mckellen-TWI.jpg?fit=100%2C100 100w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/05/hamlet-mckellen-TWI.jpg?fit=200%2C200 200w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/05/hamlet-mckellen-TWI.jpg?fit=500%2C500 500w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/05/hamlet-mckellen-TWI.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000 1000w" class="lazyload" data-sizes="auto" alt="Ian McKellen and other Hamlets" title="Ian McKellen and other Hamlets" width=1000 height=500 /> </figure> <div class="c-post-card__details c-content"> <span class="c-post-card__type">Shakespeare and Beyond</span> <h3 class="c-post-card__title"><span>Not of an age: The history behind Ian McKellen’s Hamlet</span></h3> <div class="c-post-card__meta"> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Posted</span> <time class="c-post-card__published-date" datetime="2021-05-18 10:00"> May 18, 2021 </time> </div> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Author</span> <div class="c-post-card__authors"> <span>Daniel Blank</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card__excerpt"> <p>In June, Ian McKellen will take the stage as the title character in Hamlet at the Theatre Royal Windsor. McKellen is no stranger to the role: he played Hamlet in Prospect Theatre Company’s touring production a half century ago. It…</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card"> <a class="c-post-card__cover-link" href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/excerpt-shakespeare-and-lost-plays-by-david-mcinnis/"><span class="u-hidden-visually">Excerpt: 'Shakespeare and Lost Plays' by David McInnis</span></a> <figure class="c-post-card__fig"> <img src="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/04/lost-plays-book-cover.jpg?fit=10%2C10" data-srcset="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/04/lost-plays-book-cover.jpg?fit=300%2C300 300w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/04/lost-plays-book-cover.jpg?fit=10%2C10 10w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/04/lost-plays-book-cover.jpg?fit=50%2C50 50w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/04/lost-plays-book-cover.jpg?fit=100%2C100 100w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/04/lost-plays-book-cover.jpg?fit=200%2C200 200w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/04/lost-plays-book-cover.jpg?fit=500%2C500 500w" class="lazyload" data-sizes="auto" alt="Lost Plays book cover" title="Lost Plays book cover" width=500 height=758 /> </figure> <div class="c-post-card__details c-content"> <span class="c-post-card__type">Shakespeare and Beyond</span> <h3 class="c-post-card__title"><span>Excerpt: 'Shakespeare and Lost Plays' by David McInnis</span></h3> <div class="c-post-card__meta"> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Posted</span> <time class="c-post-card__published-date" datetime="2021-04-02 10:00"> April 2, 2021 </time> </div> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Author</span> <div class="c-post-card__authors"> <span>Shakespeare & Beyond</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card__excerpt"> <p>When it comes to the theatrical landscape of Shakespeare’s London, there are the plays whose names we are familiar with — plays like Hamlet and Henry V — and then there are the plays that were being performed around the…</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card"> <a class="c-post-card__cover-link" href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/double-casting-shakespeares-plays/"><span class="u-hidden-visually">And so they play their parts: Double-casting Shakespeare’s plays</span></a> <figure class="c-post-card__fig"> <img src="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2020/08/TWood_AMND_146.jpg?fit=10%2C10" data-srcset="https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2020/08/TWood_AMND_146.jpg?fit=300%2C300 300w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2020/08/TWood_AMND_146.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024 1024w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2020/08/TWood_AMND_146.jpg?fit=10%2C10 10w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2020/08/TWood_AMND_146.jpg?fit=50%2C50 50w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2020/08/TWood_AMND_146.jpg?fit=100%2C100 100w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2020/08/TWood_AMND_146.jpg?fit=200%2C200 200w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2020/08/TWood_AMND_146.jpg?fit=500%2C500 500w, https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2020/08/TWood_AMND_146.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000 1000w" class="lazyload" data-sizes="auto" alt="" title="TWood_AMND_146" width=800 height=1200 /> </figure> <div class="c-post-card__details c-content"> <span class="c-post-card__type">Shakespeare and Beyond</span> <h3 class="c-post-card__title"><span>And so they play their parts: Double-casting Shakespeare’s plays</span></h3> <div class="c-post-card__meta"> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Posted</span> <time class="c-post-card__published-date" datetime="2020-08-28 17:20"> August 28, 2020 </time> </div> <div class="c-post-card__meta-item"> <span class="c-post-card__meta-label">Author</span> <div class="c-post-card__authors"> <span>Austin Tichenor</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-post-card__excerpt"> <p>Double-casting is a theater technique (as opposed to a literary one) that creates a meta-narrative, transforming a large-cast play into a present-tense adventure. Actors swapping costumes and changing roles (and sometimes genders) becomes part of the thrilling ride, and theater’s…</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-pagination"> <span aria-current="page" class="page-numbers current" aria-label="Current page, page 1">1</span> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/works/hamlet/page/2/" aria-label="Go to page 2">2</a> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/works/hamlet/page/3/" aria-label="Go to page 3">3</a> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/works/hamlet/page/4/" aria-label="Go to page 4">4</a> <a class="next page-numbers" href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/works/hamlet/page/2/" aria-label="Go to Next page">Next</a> </div> </div> </div> </section> </main> <section class="c-newsletter-signup"> <div class="c-content o-max o-max--800"> <div class="o-grid o-grid--middle"> <div 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