Shakespeare Plus: Autumn Leaves, an Oft-invoked Goddess, and Culinary Shakespeare
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A Tuesday Edition for a Holiday Week
We're publishing this edition of Shakespeare
Plus on Tuesday rather than Wednesday, since so many of
our readers may be traveling or baking by midweek. As you celebrate
the holidays, you may also enjoy some of our early modern recipes,
from savory biscuits, stuffing, and
mini turducken pies
to sweet potato pudding, pumpkin pie,
and hot chocolate.
We wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving and happy feasting, wherever
you may be.
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Holidays
in Shakespeare's England
Costumes,
role playing, and improvisation—is that the theater or
the holidays? On our podcast, we spoke with scholar
Erika T. Lin about the many holidays in Shakespeare's
time, when differences between festivities and theater
were far less clear than they are today.
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What's
Onstage and Online This November
Chicago
Shakespeare Theater puts on an As You Like It
filled with Beatles songs (above) and the Atlanta
Shakespeare Theater continues its "Binge
Fest" of the plays. Online, the Shakespeare@ Home
audio productions take their cue from the classic age
of radio drama.
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Autumn
Leaves: An Improvisation in Poetry and Jazz
Join us
for Autumn Leaves, an extraordinary Folger program that
is available on demand starting this week and through June 30,
2022. Acclaimed jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut joins poets Kyle
Dargan and Lenard D. Moore for an intimate improvisation of
words and music, exploring the magic that materializes when
artists collaborate. In 2016, Chestnut also composed
"Father Time," in response to Sonnet 12, for the
Folger; he performed it again at the 2021 Folger Gala (below,
at 19:08).
In Autumn
Leaves, the artists share their powerful compositions to
spark and inspire each other in a free style performance, which
is part reading, part concert. The evening concludes with a
discussion between Chestnut, Dargan, and Moore and Folger
Director of Programming Karen Ann Daniels, with Folger Director
Michael Witmore.
Co-sponsored
by Folger Consort and the Folger's O.B. Hardison Poetry
Series, Autumn Leaves was recorded live at the
Arts Club of Washington, November 4, 2021. The O.B.
Hardison Poetry Series is pleased to partner with East City Bookshop,
an independently run, women-owned bookstore on Capitol Hill,
where you can purchase books by both poets. Pickup is available
at the shop, and it ships (almost) anywhere.
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Exploring
the Life of the Bard
Lena
Cowen Orlin, a former Executive Director of the Folger
Institute, suggests that Shakespeare may have
commissioned his memorial bust. Read from her book on
Shakespeare's life.
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An
Oft-Invoked Goddess
Shakespeare's
characters often allude to Aphrodite or Venus, and she
has a leading role in his long poem Venus and Adonis.
But in his time, what did most people know about the
goddess of love?
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Food
and Drink in the Plays
Co-edited
by David B. Goldstein, one of the directors of the
Folger's Before "Farm to Table"
project, Culinary Shakespeare explores food and
drink in the plays. Check for a discount, too.
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