ANNUAL REPORT July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016

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From the Chair and Director . . 1 With Applause ...... 18 On the Road ...... 2 Roster of Donors ...... 19 From the Chair and Director From the Vaults ...... 8 Roster of Volunteers . . . . . 29 To the Folger Community and Friends: On Stage ...... 10 Roster of Fellows ...... 35 Among Scholars ...... 12 Financial Statements . . . . . 38 Fiscal Year 2016 has been an incredibly busy and exciting time for the Folger Chris Hartlove Teach and Learn ...... 14 Board of Governors and Staff . 40 Shakespeare Library. In January 2016, Online ...... 16 after years of careful, thorough planning, the Folger launched The Wonder of Will™: 400 Years of Shakespeare, a nationwide celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. This celebration was an opportunity for the Folger to preserve and to grow the nation’s understanding of Shakespeare Louis R. Cohen and Michael Witmore and his early modern world. The central component of The Wonder of Will was First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare, a traveling exhibition which sent 18 of the Folger’s 82 First Folios on the road to 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C. This tour created opportunities for half a million visitors across the country to meet Shakespeare for the first time or to deepen their relationship with him while experiencing the thrill of a First Folio. As you read this report you will learn about The Wonder of Will and how this incredible initiative shaped every aspect of the Folger during the fiscal year 2016.

Changes in the Folger Board of Governors membership for the year included the departure of Edward R. Leahy, Louisa Newlin, and Lady Westmacott whose support and leadership will be missed. The Board also welcomed a number of new members: Jarrett Arp, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Rebecca Bushnell, a longtime reader at the Folger and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania; Vinton Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google; and Lady Darroch, an educator at the British International School of Washington. On the Folger staff, we bid adieu to Georgianna Ziegler, Louis B. Thalheimer Associate Librarian and Head of Reference, who retired after 24 years at the Folger. The Folger morns the loss of former Board member Paul Ruxin. Paul was a scholar of 18th century English literature who became a well-known collector of material by and about Samuel Johnson and his biographer, James Boswell. He was a longtime friend of the Folger, and he is deeply missed.

On behalf of everyone at the Folger, thank you for your support and friendship which make all of our achievements possible.

Yours sincerely, Cover Photo: Stacy Keck

Lloyd Wolf; Louis R. Cohen Michael Witmore Chair, Board of Governors Director

Above: Gail Kern Paster Reading Room Stacks Cover: 2 Folger Guests Annual enjoying Report the 2015/16 First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare Folger Annual Report 2015/16 1 at the San Diego Public Library soliloquy, one of the best-known that brought scholars from across On The Road speeches in the English language, Michigan together to explore the and were accompanied by panels cultural, historical, literary, and As the leading resource for Shakespeare and his world, the Folger led a nation­ that shared the First Folio’s history, textual significance of the First wide celebration of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death and his profound cultural significance, and Folio; Ballet San Juan presented extraordinary legacy. Through The Wonder of Will: 400 Years of Shakespeare, continued relevance. A mobile- scenes from Romeo and Juliet, we produced special events, programs, digital initiatives, and exhibitions — on interactive website, which won a The Tempest, and Hamlet in Puerto the road, at the Folger, and online — to inspire wonder and to instill in Americans 2016 Platinum AVA Digital Award, Rico; special outreach by Spanish- a renewed connection to Shakespeare. offered additional learning through speaking student volunteers from video, galleries, polls, and user- Brown University who encouraged A cornerstone of The Wonder of 1623 Shakespeare First Folios generated content. Latino students in Rhode Island to Will was the NEH-funded national traveling to all 50 states, Washington, write and perform their own versions touring exhibition, First Folio! The D.C., and Puerto Rico. Tour stops Each tour stop, working with of Shakespeare’s classics; and a Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, included museums, universities, community partners, produced Shakespeare Marathon at the North produced in association with the public libraries, historical societies, related family programs, lectures, Carolina Museum of History, where American Library Association and and a theater. Each of the traveling performances, and teacher staged readings of Shakespeare’s 38 the Cincinnatti Museum Center. First Folios were opened to workshops. Highlights included: plays were performed over five days. The 2016 tour featured 18 touring Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” a two-day conference in Detroit In conjunction with the tour, Folger Lloyd Wolf Stacy Keck Stephen Fong Peter Ringenberg

2 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 3 FIRST FOLIO! SITES Education offered 31 Professional Amherst College AR – Conway: University of Central Arkansas with the Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre, Learning Days for teachers in 13 June 7 – July 12 states. These workshops brought the AZ – Tucson: University of Arizona, February 15 – March 15 Folger’s proven performance-based CA – San Diego: San Diego Public Library with The Old Globe, June 4 – July 7 teaching methods to new teachers FL – Miami: The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, and educators through our tour February 1 – 28 partners and exhibition venue sites. HI – Honolulu: Kapiolani Community College, April 25 – May 25 IL – Wauconda: Lake County Discovery Museum, February 3 – 28 By June 30, 2016, the First Folio! tour IN – Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, January 4 – 29 traveled to 31 venues, and produced KS – Manhattan: Kansas State University, February 1 – 28 830 programs enjoyed by 327,520 LA – New Orleans: Tulane University, May 9 – 31 Bard enthusiasts. MA – Amherst: Amherst College, May 9 – 31 ME – Portland: Portland Public Library, March 4 – April 2 Folger Theatre’s new play, MI – Detroit: Wayne State University, March 7 – April 3 Gravedigger’s Tale, accompanied MO – Kansas City: Kansas City Public Library, June 6 – 28

the First Folio! exhibition to selected Nick Dentamara MS – Oxford: University of Mississippi, April 11 – May 1 sites. An interactive retelling of MT – Missoula: University of Montana, May 9 – 31 Hamlet, the one-man show featured NC – Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of History, May 7 – 30 the award-winning Louis Butelli as the NE – Omaha: The Durham Museum, April 9 – May 1 Gravedigger. Arriving with a trunk and NH – Manchester: Currier Museum of Art, April 9 – May 1 book, he answered “questions” from NM – Santa Fe: New Mexico Museum of Art, February 5 – 28 NY – New York: New-York Historical Society, June 7 – July 17 the audience using lines from Hamlet. OH – Cleveland: Cleveland Public Library, June 20 – July 30 Butelli’s residencies often included OK – Norman: The Sam Noble Museum, January 4 – 31 master classes. More than 12,000 OR – Eugene: University of Oregon, January 5 – February 7 theatergoers saw a performance. PR – Turabo: Museo y Centro de Estudios HumanÍsticos, March 7 – April 3 RI – Providence: Brown University, April 11 – May 1 In partnership with the Brooklyn SC – Columbia: University of South Carolina Libraries, April 11 – May 1 Academy of Music, the Folger SD – Vermillion: University of South Dakota and the National Music Museum, March 7 – created a special King and April 3 Country: Treasures of the Folger TX – College Station: Texas A&M University, March 7 – April 3 exhibition that was on view during Cheryl Gerber VT – Middlebury: Middlebury College, February 1 – 28 the Royal Shakespeare Company’s WA – Seattle: The Seattle Public Library, March 21 – April 17 performances. The exhibition was WV – Wheeling: Museums of Oglebay Institute, May 9 – June 12 seen by 30,000 people.

FIRST FOLIO! STATS The Wonder of Will extended beyond ■■ The First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare touring exhibition has reached tours to engage audiences across the approximately 534,000 people. country with the special social media ■■ 1,525 events surrounding the First Folio! tour. That averages to around 4 events per day! campaign, Share Your Shakespeare ■■ The “To Be” speech from Hamlet has been at least partially translated into 3 different Story. The Folger invited the world languages. to record their personal experiences ■■ 665 performances of all 37 Shakespeare plays were held at tour venues located across the country. and connections with Shakespeare ■■ Over 1,400 educators were engaged in nearly 70 workshops on the Folger performance- and his work, and to share their based teaching method. stories on social media using the

4 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 5 Lloyd Wolf hashtag #MySHX400. Artists like the event. On Twitter, these co-hosts Corey Strickland Corey filmmaker Joss Whedon, members of reached nearly 400,000 social media Congress, Shakespeare enthusiasts, followers. Book TV also produced an teachers and students, scholars, and hour-long tour of the Folger and its Folger visitors and patrons shared vaults which has aired 20 times since how Shakespeare continues to impact the original broadcast. their lives. On public radio, the Folger’s three- The Share Your Shakespeare Story part documentary, Shakespeare in campaign inspired the April 23rd American Life, narrated by Sam broadcast, The Wonder of Will Waterston, aired 104 times on LIVE, on C-SPAN2’s Book TV. It was 50 stations reaching an audience PUBLIC PROGRAMS AS PART OF WOW FIRST FOLIO! FOLGER EDUCATION WORKSHOPS also available for international live of over 200,000 listeners. Partners The Wonder of Will Exhibitions streaming. Participants included included NPR Worldwide, Public ■■ First Folio! The Book That Gave English Speaking Union Supreme Court Justice Stephen Radio Exchange (PRX), Berlin One, Us Shakespeare, January 4, 2016 – Professional Learning Days January 2, 2017 Breyer, actor Kal Penn, National and Armed Services Worldwide. ■■ New-York Historical Society – New York, ■■ Shakespeare, Life of An Icon, NY, July 23 and 24, 2015 Endowment for the Arts Chairwoman January 20 – March 27, 2016 ■■ Kapi’olani Community College – Jane Chu, Chancellor of DC Public Committed to building greater ■■ King and Country: Treasures from the Honolulu, HI, October 10, 2015 Folger, March 24 – May 1, 2016 Schools Kaya Henderson, Reed connections to Shakespeare and ■■ LeMoyne College – Syracuse, NY, ■■ America’s Shakespeare, April 7 – November 13, 2015 Martin and Austin Tichenor of the the humanities, in 2016 the Folger July 24, 2016 Reduced Shakespeare Company, launched a Theater Partnership ■■ North Broward Preparatory – Fort National Endowment for the Program to more deeply engage The Wonder of Will Public Programs, Lauderdale, FL, January 18, 2016 Lectures, and Special Events ■■ Two River Theater – Red Bank, NJ, Humanities Chairman William D. theatergoers through Shakespeare ■■ Radio Documentary: Shakespeare March 1, 2016 Adams, Folger Director Michael content and experiences. 40 theaters in American Life, January 10, 2016 – ■■ Brown University – Providence, RI, Witmore, and more. Over 30 from across the United States, with a January 2, 2017 April 30, 2016 organizations—including Simon combined audience of over 2 million ■■ Shakespeare Anniversary Lecture ■■ Kansas City Public Library – Kansas City, Series, March 17 – October 4, 2016 & Schuster and several public ticket buyers, joined the partnership MO, June 15, 2016 ■■ The Wonder of Will Live, April 23, 2016 ■■ New-York Historical Society – New York, libraries—co-hosted and promoted in its inaugural year. ■■ Gravedigger’s Tale, June 20 – 26, 2016 NY, June 29 and 30, 2016

The Wonder of Will Honorary Committee The Wonder of Will Honorary Committee supports the efforts of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s U.S. commemorations of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016.

Lloyd Wolf Congressman Brad Ashford Congressman David Loebsack Senator Ben Cardin Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis Congressman Emanuel Cleaver Congresswoman Doris Matsui Senator Thad Cochran Congresswoman Betty McCollum Congressman Tom Cole Congressman Jim McDermott Senator Susan Collins Congressman Richard Nolan Congressman John Delaney Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro Congresswoman Chellie Pingree Senator Michael Enzi Congressman Joseph Pitts Senator Deb Fischer Senator Jack Reed Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Senator Harry Reid Congressman Rául Grijalva Senator Charles Schumer Senator Orrin Hatch Senator Jeanne Shaheen Senator Angus King, Jr. Congresswoman Louise Slaughter Senator Amy Klobuchar Senator Roger Wicker Congressman John Lewis Congressman Don Young

6 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 7 EXHIBITIONS 2015/16 DOCENT BOARD From the Vaults ■■ Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Carrol Kindel, chair Longitude, March 19, 2015 – August 23, Diana Darwin 2015 The Folger presented two major is the first of its kind since 1908 and Kathleen Kovach ■■ Age of Lawyers: The Roots of Janice Molchom humanities exhibitions in Washington. sheds new light on how intimately American Law in Shakespeare’s Britain, Shakespeare, Life of an Icon brought involved Shakespeare was in shaping September 12, 2015 – January 3, 2016 Mike Neumann together documents from the British and defending the legitimacy of his ■■ Shakespeare, Life of An Icon, Reggie Saville Library, the College of Arms, the coat of arms, giving the world new January 20 – March 27, 2016 Katherine Tallis Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the insight on Shakespeare the man. ■■ America’s Shakespeare, April 7 – Amy Thompson July 24, 2016 National Archives, and our own 82 docents donated 4,500 hours to the Folger in 2015/16. collection that gave audiences a clear The Early Modern Manuscripts picture of William Shakespeare the Online (EMMO) team launched man. Items included Shakespeare’s Shakespeare’s World, a digital copy of the bargain and sale for his platform created in partnership with purchase of a residence in Blackfriars Zooniverse and the Oxford English near the winter theater of the King’s Dictionary for transcribing Folger Men and the only surviving letter manuscripts from the sixteenth and Yassine El Mansouri Yassine El Mansouri Yassine written to Shakespeare, written by seventeenth centuries. Transcribers of Richard Quiney in October 1598. all experience levels can participate Curated by the Folger’s Heather and learn transcription skills. In the Wolfe, this exhibition was enjoyed by first few hours of the platform’s over 25,000 visitors. launch, the Folger received more than 1,110 submitted transcriptions and In the spring, America’s Shakespeare engaged hundreds of transcribers. explored the tradition of Americans making Shakespeare our own. Using The Folger also added a number a broad selection of rare letters, of items to its collection, including costumes, books, and more, the 45 printed books and early modern exhibition successfully showed how manuscripts acquired at the his words and ideas weave through December 2015 Sotheby’s sale of our national story from print to the late Robert S Pirie’s collection.

radio, television, film, and digital Of the items purchased, two are El Mansouri Yassine media. America’s Shakespeare was exceptionally noteworthy. The first, viewed by more than 39,000 visitors one of the greatest rarities of English at the Folger and traveled to the Los Literature and one of two copies in Angeles Public Library in Fall 2016. North America, is a second edition of Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnets Astrophel While working on Shakespeare, and Stella. No other copy exists Life of an Icon, Heather Wolfe, the in any other American library. The Folger’s Curator of Manuscripts, second, a copy of Ayres by English discovered 13 documents with composer William Corkine, includes previously unknown depictions of the first and second books in one William Shakespeare’s coat of arms volume. There are only two other from the 17th century. The discovery known copies in existence.

8 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 9 FOLGER THEATRE’S 2015/16 SEASON FOLGER CONSORT’S 2015/16 SEASON On Stage ■■ texts&beheadings/ElizabethR, ■■ Chanson Medieval: Music of Machaut September 19 – October 4, 2015 and Dufay, October 9 – 11, 2015 ■■ Pericles, November 13 – December 20, ■■ The Season Bids Us, December 18 – 23, Folger Theatre fully embraced Folger Theatre’s productions drew 2015 2015 the spirit of the 2015/16 season, more than 42,000 audience members. ■■ A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ■■ The Wonder of Will, January 22 – 23, coupling strong partnerships with January 26 – March 13, 2016 2016* ■■ ■■ innovative artistic and literary In June, The O.B. Hardison Poetry The Reduced Shakespeare Company, Playing with Fire, March 18 – 20, 2016 William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First ■■ public programs. Folger Theatre, Series concluded its season with a Shakespeare and Purcell, April 8 – 10, Play (Abridged), April 21 – May 8, 2016 2016 participating for the first time in moving reading in celebration of the ■■ District Merchants, May 31 – July 3, a regional theater consortium 50th Anniversary of the Black Arts 2016 *Performances were cancelled due to inclement weather. with the Oregon Shakespeare Movement and the 20th Anniversary Festival and the Guthrie Theatre, of Cave Canem. This event featured presented a production of Pericles readings by more than a dozen poets that was one of The Washington and highlighted Cave Canem’s role in THE 2015/16 O.B. HARDISON THE 2015/16 PEN/FAULKNER Post’s Top Ten theater productions advancing African American poetry. POETRY SERIES FICTION SERIES in D.C. in 2015. The season also ■■ W.S. Di Piero and Rowan Ricardo ■■ Spark: The PEN/Faulkner Award for included the world premieres of Folger Consort’s 2015/16 season Phillips, September 28, 2015 Fiction Celebration, October 5, 2015 ■■ ■■ texts&beheadings/ElizabethR presented concerts devoted to Anthony Thwaite and Jaimee Hills, David Bezmozgis, Boris Fishman, and October 26, 2015 Lara Vapnyar, October 19, 2015 which was part of the inaugural Shakespeare and the music of his ■■ Julianna Baggott and Laura Kasischke, ■■ Jane Smiley, November 6, 2015 DC Women’s Voices Theater Festival, era. A highlight was the Consort’s November 23, 2015 ■■ Julianna Baggott and Laura Kasischke, William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First January concert, The Wonder of Will: ■■ Linda Gregerson, December 7, 2015 November 23, 2015 Play with the Reduced Shakespeare Early and New Music Celebrating ■■ Reginald Dwayne Betts and William ■■ PEN/Malamud Award: Deborah Company, and an original Folger Shakespeare. This program featured Archila, February 8, 2016 Eisenberg, December 4, 2015 Theatre commission, District a collaboration with Stile Antico, one ■■ Mark Doty and Aimee Nezhukumatathil, ■■ Celeste Ng and John Wray, February Merchants, a creative retelling of of the world’s finest Renaissance March 10, 2016 23, 2016 ■■ ■■ Shakespeare’s The Merchant of vocal ensembles, and went on to be Malachi Black, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Howard Jacobson, March 14, 2016 and A. Van Jordan, April 11, 2016 ■■ Venice written by Aaron Posner and presented in the Music Before 1800 Mitchell S. Jackson and Leslie Jamison, ■■ Sir Andrew Motion, May 9, 2016 March 21, 2016 directed by Cornerstone Theater’s concert series at the Corpus Christi ■■ Lineage: From the Black Arts ■■ A Tribute to Robert Stone, May 2, 2016 Michael John Garcés. Combined, Church in New York City. Movement to Cave Canem, June 13, ■■ The 36th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award 2016 for Fiction, May 14, 2016 Teresa Wood Teresa Teresa Wood Teresa Wood Teresa Mignonette Dooley Johnson

10 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 11 SCHOLARLY PROGRAMS Among Scholars ■■ Cervantes’ Fictions and the Early Modern Historical Imagination, October 2 – December 18, 2015 (Semester-length Seminar; Directed by Mary Malcolm Gaylord, Harvard University) The Folger Institute’s Center for conversations regarding digital ■■ Theatres of Learning: Education in Early Modern England (1500-1750), October 15 – 17, Shakespeare Studies commemorated humanities practices and trends. 2015 (Fall 2015 Conference) the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s ■■ Periodization 2.0, November 5 – 7, 2015 (Symposium; Directed by Kristen Poole, death with a series of public lectures Folger Institute worked closely with University of Delaware) by scholars Tiffany Stern, Stephen scholarly advisors on a new online ■■ Researching the Archive, Fridays, September 25, 2015 – April 15, 2016 (Year-long Dissertation Seminar; Directed by Derek Hirst and Steven Zwicker, Washington University Greenblatt, and Kim Hall, now platform for the Digital Anthology of in St. Louis) available by podcast. This series also Early Modern English Drama which ■■ Advanced Early Modern English Paleography, December 14 – 18, 2015 (Week-long marked the Center’s 30th anniversary will initially feature 40 plays. Ongoing Workshop; Directed by Heather Wolfe, Curator of Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare of scholarly programming. work to expand our digital scholarly Library) ■■ The Reformation of the Generations: Age, Ancestry, and Memory in England 1500-1700, offerings continues to bring new and February 5 – April 29, 2016 (Semester-Long Seminar; Directed by Alexandra Walsham, Folger Institute offered a series varied resources to the Folger. University of Cambridge) of micro-grant opportunities, ■■ Shakespeare’s Theatrical Documents, March 17 – 19, 2016 (Symposium; Directed by supported by a generous $350,000 In October 2015, Folger Institute Tiffany Stern, Oxford University) ■■ grant from the National Endowment hosted a workshop discussion More’s Utopia: Humanist Literature and Political Thought, May 19 – June 17, 2016 (Seminar; Directed by Cathy Curtis, University of Queensland) for the Humanities (NEH) for surrounding the Macro manuscript ■■ A Folger Orientation to Research Methods and Agendas, May 23 – 27, 2016 (Intensive our Teaching Shakespeare to (V.a.354). Scholars, curators, and Skills Course) Undergraduates initiative, which conservators gathered to compare ■■ Introduction to English Paleography, June 6 – 10, 2016 (Intensive Skills Course; Directed built on the work of the First Folio perspectives on the necessity by Heather Wolfe, Curator of Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library) ■■ tour. These microgrants supported of rebinding the object, giving Cultural Histories of the Material World: Early Modern Books and Objects, April 21, 2016 (Workshop) seminars and workshops that participants and Institute staff introduced new communities of a deeper understanding of how college faculty and students to these objects would inform future YEAR-LONG FELLOWS Folger resources. The NEH also research processes and programs. Paul Dover, Associate Professor of Alanna Skuse, Lecturer in English, generously supported Early Modern The Institute also held a three- History, Kennesaw State University University of Exeter Digital Agendas 2016, a forum for day conference called Theatres The Reign of Paper: Information in the ‘Recompact my scatter’d body’: Early Modern Age Selfhood and Surgical Alteration in scholars, librarians, and technical of Learning: Education in Early National Endowment for the Early Modern England specialists that continued meaningful Modern England. Humanities Fellow The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow Thomas Fulton, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University Jessica Brantley, Professor of English Biblical Readers and Renaissance and Director of Undergraduate

Jeffrey Malet Jeffrey Studies, Yale University

James Brantley Writers: Politics, Hermeneutics, and Literary Culture from Erasmus to Milton The Medieval Imagetext: A Literary National Endowment for the History of the Book of Hours Humanities Fellow ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellow

Christopher Highley, Professor of Alexa Huang, Professor of English, English, The Ohio State University Co-director of the Digital Humanities Blackfriars: Playhouse, Church, and Institute, Director of the Neighborhood in Early Modern London Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare, The George Washington University The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow Shakespeare and East Asia ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellow

12 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 13 TEACHER, SCHOOL, AND FAMILY PROGRAMS Russo Tracy Teach and Learn ■■ Teaching Shakespeare Institute, June 26 – July 23, 2016 ■■ Lily McKee High School Fellowship In partnership with the District of in DC’s Ward 6. Folger was able to Program, September 14, 2015 – Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), provide volunteer labor, curriculum December 7, 2016 Folger Education completed its assistance through our Shakespeare ■■ Shakespeare Steps Out (SSO), second year as the primary provider Steps Out (SSO) program, and more, September 7, 2015 – May 13, 2016 ■■ of professional development related all aimed at improving the academic Folger Teaching Artists in the Schools (FTAS), November 13, 2015 – March 11, to Shakespeare, fully adopting into experience for Miner Elementary 2016 the Cornerstone Initiative that seeks students and staff. ■■ Educator Workshops: Shakespeare In to bring equitable learning standards Action for Students, September 25, 2015 – June 13, 2016; Teaching to all students. Efforts included Through the NEH’s Humanities in Shakespeare Institute: Professional leading Cornerstone-specific the Public Square initiative, Folger Learning Days, July 14, 2015 – April 16, 2016 professional development workshops Education presented CrossTalk DC, ■■ Folger Shakespeare in New Jersey, March 12 and April 13, 2016 for educators and developing a a series of conversations aimed at ■■ 36th Annual Secondary School Shakespeare Festival, March 1 – 11, 2016 Professional Learning Cohort to connecting people across the city in ■■ 37th Annual Emily Jordan Folger Children’s Festival, May 9 – 13, 2016 streamline learning in DCPS Folger meaningful dialogue on race, religion, ■■ Student Matinees, December 10, 2015 – February 25, 2016 ■■ Teaching Artists in the Schools (FTAS) identity, and difference through Shake Up Your Saturdays workshops for parents and children, first Saturday of every month program classrooms. the lens of literature and history. FOLGER NATIONAL TEACHER CORPS Coinciding with the premiere of ■■ Ashley Bessicks, Phelps High School, ■■ Alli Gubanich, AIM Academy, In July 2015, Folger Education Folger Theatre’s District Merchants, Washington, DC Conshohocken, PA presented a week-long version of the the event explored the concept of ■■ Sue Biondo-Hench, Carlisle High ■■ Martha Harris, St. Olaf College, longstanding Teaching Shakespeare “otherness” in modern society. More School, Carlisle, PA Northfield, MN Institute. This program was an than five events were held in the ■■ Greta Brasgalla, El Dorado High School, ■■ Stefanie Jochman, Notre Dame de la El Paso, TX Baie Academy, Green Bay, WI incredible success and immersed month of June both at the Folger and ■■ Jill Burdick-Zupancic, Thomas ■■ Mike Klein, Sachem High School North, 29 teachers from across the country six partner sites across the District, Jefferson High School for Science and Lake Ronkonkoma, NY in Shakespeare’s Hamlet through bringing the conversation to more Technology, Fairfax, VA ■■ Chris Lavold, Mauston High School, scholarly and pedagogical seminars, than 600 participants. ■■ Quintin Burks, Nashoba Regional High Mauston, WI allowing them to return home with School, Bolton, MA ■■ Mark Miazga, Baltimore City College ■■ Josh Cabat, Roslyn Union Free School High School, Baltimore, MD a more robust skill set for engaging District, Roslyn, NY ■■ Louisa Newlin, Sidwell Friends & St. students in the study of Shakespeare ■■ Jess Cakrasenjaya, Ames High School, Albans School for Boys, Washington, DC and his texts. Ames, IA ■■ Skip Nicholson, UC Riverside Extension, ■■ Donna Denize, St. Albans School for Riverside, CA Boys, Washington, DC ■■ Spencer Nissly, Woodrow Wilson High The Folger offered an increased Russo Tracy ■■ Kim Dickstein, Haddonfield Memorial School, Washington, DC series of three live-streamed, digital High School, Haddonfield, NJ ■■ Mari O’Meara, Eden Prairie High master classes, engaging teachers ■■ Liz Dixon, West Lafayette High School, School, Eden Prairie, MN across the country in Folger curricula Lafayette, IN ■■ Julia Perlowski, Edward Parthum Middle and methodology. This greatly ■■ Judith Elstein, Harvard Institute for School, Lawrence, MA expanded the educational footprint Learning in Retirement, Cambridge, MA ■■ Amber Phelps, Baltimore City College ■■ Dave Fulco, MS/HS 223 The Lab School High School, Baltimore, MD of the Folger in 2016. of Finance and Technology ■■ Matt Seymour, Colorado Early Colleges ■■ Deborah Gascon, Dutch Fork High Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO Folger Education adopted local Miner School, Irmo, SC ■■ Rick Vanderwall, University of Northern Elementary School in 2015/16, a pre-K ■■ Monica Green, Stuart-Hobson Middle Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA through Grade 5 public school located School, Washington, DC ■■ Gina Voskov, United Nations International School, New York, NY

14 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 15 Online Russo Tracy

For the 400th anniversary of In 2015/16, Folger.edu saw more Shakespeare’s death, the Folger than one million users and had 24% launched Shakespeare Documented, more total page views over the a permanent online exhibition and previous year. This new platform has website that is the largest and most allowed us to create enhanced digital authoritative collection of primary- offerings and content experiences source materials related to the life of for exhibitions and events and make Shakespeare. All known references, our website more mobile friendly— documents, and images are included improving user experience for in this living exhibition, representing more than 32% of Folger.edu’s total the first time that these prints and sessions. manuscripts have been accessible and searchable in a single place. The Folger also released the final The website has received more than version of Folger Digital Texts. A final 23,000 page views from more than review established Folger Digital PUBLICATIONS 5,000 visitors worldwide. Texts as the online Shakespeare ■■ Shakespeare Quarterly: Volume 66, Number 2 – Summer 2015 Issue corpus of record and made these ■■ Shakespeare Quarterly: Volume 66, Number 3 – Fall 2015 Issue The Folger rebuilt and re-launched texts available in a host of new, ■■ Shakespeare Quarterly: Volume 66, Number 4 – Winter 2015 Issue the World Shakespeare Bibliography downloadable formats. These ■■ Shakespeare Quarterly: Volume 67, Number 1 – Spring 2016 Issue website in June, a database that new formats will help users create allows the user to access the classroom materials, produce SHAKESPEARE UNLIMITED PODCAST EPISODES most comprehensive record of performance scripts, automate text ■■ Shakespeare in Hong Kong, ■■ Auditioning for Shakespeare, Shakespeare-related scholarship and analysis, and more. July 1, 2015 January 12, 2016 theatrical productions from 1960 to ■■ Shakespeare and The Tabard Inn, ■■ Shakespeare in India, July 15, 2015 January 27, 2016 the present. ■■ Great Shakespeareans, ■■ Pop Sonnets, July 29, 2015 February 10, 2016 ■■ Shakespeare Not Stirred, ■■ Shakespeare and World Cinema, August 26, 2015 February 23, 2016 ■■ Editing Shakespeare, ■■ Shakespeare and Magic, September 9, 2015 March 8, 2016 ■■ The Year of Lear, ■■ Inside the Folger Conservation Lab, Lloyd Wolf

Beth Emelson September 23, 2015 March 22, 2016 ■■ Music for Shakespeare’s Lyrics, ■■ Reduced Shakespeare Company, October 7, 2015 April 5, 2016 ■■ Great Shakespeare Actors, ■■ Kill Shakespeare Comics, October 21, 2015 April 20, 2016 ■■ Shakespeare in the Caribbean, ■■ Creating Shakespeare’s First Folio, November 4, 2015 May 3, 2016 ■■ The Millionaire and the Bard, ■■ Shakespeare in Africa, November 18, 2015 May 17, 2016 ■■ William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, ■■ Shakespeare and Religion, December 1, 2015 May 31, 2016 ■■ Portraits of Shakespeare, December 15, 2015

16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 17 With Applause Roster of Donors

In fiscal year 2016, the Folger raised $4,053,300 in philanthropic support, We extend special appreciation to those individuals, corporations, foundations, exceeding our goal and setting a new record for the institution. One of the and government agencies that have provided financial support or in-kind factors contributing to our incredible success was the 2016 Annual Benefit Gala contributions to the Folger Shakespeare Library and its programs during fiscal held on April 18, 2016. The Gala celebrated The Wonder of Will and featured year 2016. This honor roll of donors represents gifts of $1,000 or more that were performances and appearances by Wendell Pierce, Tom Story, Louis Butelli, received between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016. We are also grateful to the Christylez Bacon, and more. The evening was attended by more than 265 guests many contributors whose names space will not permit us to print, including those and raised more than $409,000, a 13% increase over last year’s event. who have pledged support for upcoming years.

MEMBER AND FUNDRAISING EVENTS The Folger is also profoundly grateful to the volunteers, committee members, ■■ Age of Lawyers Exhibition Opening, September 15, 2015 and fellows whose time and effort make the work of the institution possible. ■■ Age of Lawyers Gallery Talk, November 4, 2015 We encourage you to visit the online version of the Annual Report posted on our ■■ texts&beheadings/ElizabethR Opening Night, September 24, 2015 website at www.folger.edu/annualreport for a complete list of these individuals, ■■ 12th Annual Renaissance Circles Dinner, October 8, 2015 and for our honor roll of donors representing gifts of $250 and more. ■■ Pericles Opening Night, November 19, 2015 ■■ New Member Tour, December 12, 2015 $500,000+ $25,000-$34,999 ■■ Twelfth Night Gathering of Friends – Gravedigger’s Tale, January 6, 2016 National Endowment for the Humanities William S. Abell Foundation, Inc. ■■ Shakespeare, Life of an Icon Exhibition Opening, January 20, 2016 Susan Sachs Goldman ■■ , Opening Night, February 1, 2016 $100,000-$499,999 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Lannan Foundation ■■ Shakespeare, Life of an Icon Gallery Talk, February 11, 2016 The Lord Browne of Madingley Dr. Carol L. Ludwig and ■■ Acquisitions Night, March 18, 2016 D.C. Commission on the Arts and The Honorable Eugene Ludwig ■■ Member Appreciation Weekend, March 18, 19, 2016 Humanities, an agency supported in part National Recreation Foundation by the National Endowment for the Arts ■■ America’s Shakespeare Exhibition Opening, April 7, 2016 Gail Kern Paster Estate of Diana Denley ■■ Folger Shakespeare Library Annual Gala, April 18, 2016 Mark Pigott KBE and Cindy Pigott J. May Liang and James Lintott ■■ Reduced Shakespeare Company: William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) Loren and Frances Rothschild Patron Night, May 4, 2016 $50,000-$99,999 Sterling Foundation Management ■■ America’s Shakespeare Gallery Talk, June 1, 2016 British Council Neal T. Turtell ■■ District Merchants Opening Night, June 7, 2016 Council on Library and Information Resources $20,000-$24,999 Estate of Pamela L. Kopp Louis and Bonnie Cohen Roger and Robin Millay The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Herman J. Obermayer* MARPAT Foundation Pine Tree Foundation of New York William and Louisa Newlin

Daniel Schwartz Shakespeare in American Communities Andrew Oliver and Melanie Du Bois Share Fund Stuart and Mimi Rose National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs Mr. and Mrs. B. Francis Saul, II Program and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts $10,000-$19,999 Anonymous (2) $35,000-$49,999 Jarrett and Nora Arp Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Vinton and Sigrid Cerf The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Clark-Winchcole Foundation Foundation Neal and Florence Cohen

* Deceased

18 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 19 Maygene and Steve Daniels J.C. and Mary McElveen Jeffrey P. Cunard $1,000-$2,500 The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Ms. Penny Moden Philip J. Deutch and Marne L. Levine Anonymous (4) Peter and Rose Edwards Cullen and Anna Marie Murphy Ms. Dorothea W. Dickerman and John and Nancy Abeles The Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust Mrs. William F. Nelson Mr. Richard Kevin Becker Dr. Peter J. Albert and The Helen Clay Frick Foundation Courtney and Scott Pastrick Dimick Foundation Ms. Charlotte Mahoney David and Margaret Gardner Mr. Ben Reiter and Barbra Eaton and Ed Salners Bess and Greg Ballentine William L. Hopkins Mrs. Alice Goldman Reiter Jeff Franzen Ms. Lisa U. Baskin Mr. and Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. The Nora Roberts Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Gill Gail Weinmann and Nathan Billig Deneen Howell and Donald Vieira Gabriela and Douglas Smith Ruth Hansen and Lawrence Plotkin Mr. Peter England Blau Maxine Isaacs The Steinglass Family Wyatt R. and Susan N. Haskell Ms. Gigi Bradford and Mr. Jim Stanford Helen and David Kenney Louis B. Thalheimer and Juliet A. Eurich The Pittsburgh Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David G. Bradley The Honorable John D. Macomber Tessa van der Willigen and Catherine Held Mr. and Mrs. I. Townsend Burden, III Jonathan Walters The Nancy Peery Marriott Foundation Holland & Knight LLP Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Callahan Tara Ghoshal Wallace Jacqueline Badger Mars Ms. Deidre Holmes DuBois and William J. Camarinos Weissberg Foundation Mr. Christopher E. DuBois John and Connie McGuire Professor Carmen A. Casís Drs. Michael L. Witmore and Rick Kasten Ann K. Morales Mr. Richard H. Cleva Kellie Robertson Professor John N. and Pauline King National Endowment for the Arts Mr. Mark D. Colley and Ellen and Bernard Young Arthur and Yvonne Koenig Darcy and Andy Nussbaum Ms. Deborah A. Harsch $2,500-$4,999 Dr. David Eric Lees and Mr. Edwin P. Conquest, Jr. Craig Pascal and Victor Shargai Dr. Daniele F. Huntington Joanne and Paul* Ruxin Anonymous (3) Mr. Eric Cooper Mr. Richard H. Levy and Mr. Douglas R. Cox Mr. and Mrs. H. Axel Schupf Gary and Mary Ellen Abrecht Ms. Lorraine Gallard Marshall B. Coyne Foundation The Shubert Foundation Keith and Celia Arnaud Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Lyon Ms. Judith Matthews Craig Scott and Liz Vance D. James Baker and Emily Lind Baker Patricia Magno Ms. D. Elizabeth Crompton Roger and Julie Baskes Julianna Mahley $5,000-$9,999 Professor Adele S. Davidson Bill and Evelyn Braithwaite Mark McConnell and Leslie Delagran Anonymous (2) Ms. Harriet H. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart AARP Dr. and Mrs. William Davis Howard M. Brown Peter and Mary Jay Michel Judy Areen and Richard Cooper Porter and Lisa Dawson Dr. Rebecca Weld Bushnell and Martin and Elaine Miller Twiss and Patrick Butler Mr. Daniel De Simone and Mr. John David Toner The Mosaic Foundation (of R. & P. Heydon) Heather and Dick Cass Ms. Angela Scott Susan and Dixon Butler Carl and Undine Nash Dr. Thomas Cohen and Mr. John F. Downey Anthony & Anna L. Carozza Foundation Dr. Rebeccah Kinnamon Neff Dr. Lisa Cohen-Fuentes Brian and Karen Conway Marjorie and Anthony Elson Nicky Cymrot Melanie and Larry Nussdorf Harold* and Louise Engle The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Carolyn and Mark Olshaker Nancy M. Folger and Sidney Werkman Foundation, Inc. Timothy and Linda O’Neill Carla and George Frampton Graham Holdings Gail Orgelfinger and Charles Hanna Eric Friedenwald-Fishman Dr. Stephen H. Grant and Anne Parten and Philip Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Galvin

Ms. Abigail B. Wiebenson El Mansouri Yassine Deborah C. Payne The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Mark and Carol Hyman Fund Drs. Eldor and Judith Pederson Brent Glass and Cathryn Keller Dr. David E. Johnson and Mrs. Jacqueline L. Quillen Ms. Wendy Frieman Ms. Barbara Goldberg Ms. Lola Reinsch Ms. Patricia J. Gray Andi H. Kasarsky Dr. Lois Green Schwoerer KieranTimberlake Ann Greer Mr. Leslie C. Taylor Karl K. and Carrol Benner Kindel Dr. Martha Gross and Mr. Robert Tracy Ayanna Thompson Edward and Patricia Leahy Elizabeth H. Hageman Professor R L Widmann Ken Ludwig and Adrienne George Mrs. O.B. Hardison, Jr. Nyla and Gerry Witmore Mars Foundation * Deceased

20 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 21 Martha Harris Lelia* and Robert Russell Mr. Henry H. Booth Mr. Douglas Evans Florence and Peter D. Hart Mr. and Mrs. K. Dudley Schadeberg Dr. Mary H. Branton Mr. Gerald M. Feierstein Mr. Joseph M. Hassett and Dr. Richard Schoch Mr. and Mrs. James D. Bridgeman Charles Fendig and Maria Fisher Ms. Carol Melton Dr. Marianne Schuelein and Kathleen Burger and Glen Gerada Melody and Albert Fetske Mr. and Mrs. Keith B. Hennessey Mr. Ralph M. Krause Mrs. Adrianne Brooks Mr. Gregory Flowers Ms. Anita G. Herrick Howard Shapiro and Shirley Brandman Ms. Maria Alexia Burke Mr. Robert Fontenrose Eric H. Hertting Dr. James Shapiro Colonel and Mrs. Lance J. Burton Mr. Roland M. Frye, Jr. and Mrs. Wilhelmina Holladay Joan Shorey John Byrd and Lina Watson Ms. Susan M. Pettey Mr. and Mrs. David H. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Small Mr. and Mrs. Lewis R. Cabe Ms. Nancy C. Garrison Ms. Faith S. Lambert Folger Five Ms. Diana Carl Jere Gibber and J.G. Harrington Col. Denny Lane and Ms. Naoko Aoki John and Alison Steadman Mr. Todd Christofaro Kenneth* and Carol Gideon Mr. and Mrs. J. Ronald Langkamp Ms. Joanne M. Sten The Honorable and Ms. Michelle Gluck and Dr. Walter Smith Mr. Hiram G. Larew Mr. Hubert M. Stiles Jr. Mrs. Raymond C. Clevenger, III Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Goelzer Dr. Carole Levin (and Obe’s Book Club, 6/10/16 gift) Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Cohen Ms. Ann V. Gordon and Mr. Martin Singer Richard and Jane Levy Dr. Ann Swann Dr. Anne Coldiron Mr. Harry Gutman Mr. Robert Liberatore Amy and Mark Tercek Mr. and Mrs. William D. Coleman Dr. Peter I. Hartsock Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Liden Mr. and Mrs. Tim Thornton Mr. and Mrs. John J. Collins Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Hazen Mr. and Mrs. Robert Case Liotta Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Trooboff Ronald M. Costell, M.D., and Mrs. Anthony E. Hecht David Lloyd, Realtor Mr. Nigel Twose and Marsha E. Swiss June and George Higgins Ms. Priscilla Annamanthodo Abbe D. Lowell and Molly A. Meegan Mr. Owen J. Costello and Mr. Michael J. Hirrel The Honorable Seth Waxman and Ms. Erlin R. Webb Mr. and Mrs. David J. Lundsten Mr. David H. Hofstad Ms. Debra Goldberg Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Daniels Mr. Thomas G. MacCracken Katherine and Duncan Kennedy Toby and Stacie Webb Mr. Steven des Jardins Dr. Mary Patterson McPherson Wendy and Robert Kenney Mrs. Eric Weinmann Mr. and Mrs. Clark Evans Downs Ms. Barbara M. Meade Mr. Bruce Kieloch Mr. David Weisman Dr. Ross W. Duffin and Ms. Chloe Miller Mr. Donald E. White and Dr. Beverly J. Simmons Dr. Marcel C. LaFollette and Jane and Paul Molloy Mr. Jeffrey K. Stine Ms. Betty W. Good-White Mr. Craig G. Dunkerley and Dr. Robert Lawshe Dr. Tina Morris Ms. Mary-Sherman Willis and Ms. Patricia Haigh Mr. Michael Lebovitz Ms. Mary Morton Mr. C. Scott Willis Rose and John Eberhardt Mr. and Mrs. Terry Lenzner Dr. Barbara A. Mowat Ms. Nicole Winard Mr. David J. Edmondson Ms. Nina Levine Mary and Cyril Muromcew Philip and Tricia Winterer Mr. and Mrs. Michael Eig Mr. and Mrs. Jan Lodal Theodore and Mary Eugenia Myer Beverly and Christopher With Dr. William E. Engel Stephen* and Sandra Lotterman Nepeni Foundation Mr. Douglas Wolfire Ms. Marietta Ethier Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nordhaus Anne and Fred Woodworth Mr. James Mach Mr. Christian O’Connell Laura Yerkovich and John Winkler Kevin and Sally Majkut Mr. Ari Orenstein and Ms. Yana Kondakova Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Zarr Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Mancini

Overseas Hardwoods Company Russo Tracy Mr. Winton E. Matthews, Jr. $500-$999 Dr. and Mrs. George R. Packard, III Ms. Catherine McClave Anonymous (2) Charles and Susan Parsons Ms. Gail McKee Dr. Robert S. Adelstein and Ms. Rebecca Penniman and Marilyn and Charles McMillion Mrs. Miriam A. Adelstein Mr. Louis Wittenberg Beverly J. Melani and Bruce E. Walker Mr. and Mrs. David B. Barefoot Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Pfeiffer Estate of Julienne M. Michel Ms. Kyle Z. Bell and Mr. Alan G.R. Bell Earl and Carol Ravenal Mr. Hilary B. Miller and Mr. Brent James Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Trip Reid Dr. Katherine N. Bent Mr. Richard Ben-Veniste and Mr. David Roberts and Dr. David Spencer Hazel C. Moore Ms. Donna Grell Melinda and Howard Rubin Ms. Sheila A. Murphy Drs. Robin and Clare Biswas Mary Jane Ruhl Dr. Jean C. Bolan * Deceased

22 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 23 Mr. Terence R. Murphy and Mr. Seymour Barasch Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Field Ms. Sara W. Kane Ms. Patricia A. Sherman Mr. Donald Baur Anne and Lucas Fischer Ms. Mary E. Kelly Ms. Essence Newhoff and Ms. Alexandra Beatty Ms. Tracy Fisher Mr. Christopher Kendall and Dr. Paul Gardullo Mr. and Mrs. David M. Beckmann Ms. Laurie Fletcher and Dr. Allan Fraser Ms. Susan Schilperoort Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm B. Niedner Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Benson Mr. John Franzén Dr. Arthur B. Kennickell Mr. and Mrs. Dave Nurme Mr. Kirke Bent Mr. Douglas Freeman Andrea and Joseph Kerr Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Parr Dr. Katherine Berry and Mr. William K. Frymoyer Ms. Judith Kimball Ms. Sheila J. Peters Mr. Christian Buchmann Mrs. Joanne Garris Mr. Robert L. Kimmins Ms. Julie Phillips Ms. Mary C. Blake Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Garrison Dr. Anne M. King Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Phillips Mr. Michael C. Blaugrund Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Gibson Ms. Lynne Myers Klimmer Dr. and Mrs. Warren S. Poland Mr. James L. Blum Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mr. James Knighton Ms. Ann Portocarrero Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bochner Mr. Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr. and Mr. Michael Kolakowski Ms. Gerit Ann Quealy Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bott Dr. Betty J. Forman Ms. Jennefer D. Kopczynski and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Reynolds Mrs. Anne Clare Bourne Mr. Gregg H.S. Golden Mr. Jonathan P. Adams Mr. Jonathan M. Rich Ms. Gail S. Bower Mr. and Mrs. Michael Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. George Koukourakis Gerd and Duncan Ritchie Ms. Gwen W. Brewer Professors Suzanne and Philip Gossett Mr. Edward M. Kovach and Mrs. Kathleen C. Kovach Ellen and Richard Rodin Mr. and Mrs. John R. Brinkema Mrs. Claire Gibson Green Kim & Elizabeth Kowalewski Mr. Peter Rogen Capt. and Mrs. John Brownell Sayre N. Greenfield, PhD and Mr. Richard Krasnow Prof. Barbara A. Shailor Ph.D and Dr. James C. Bulman Linda V. Troost, PhD Mr. Harry W. Blair II Dr. Karen Ordahl Kupperman Mr. Charles Burger and Ms. Nancy Broers Mr. Bruce N. Gregory and Mr. and Mrs. Cary H. Sherman Ms. Paula Causey Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Lauzon Ms. Victoria Butler and Mr. Tim Carney Dr. Sherry Wood Shuman and Neal and Janice Gregory Mr. and Mrs. Marc Levinson Colonel and Mrs. Larry M. Cereghino Mr. Philip B. Shuman Janet and Christopher Griffin Professor Fred J. Levy and Mr. John Chester Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bland Smith Mr. and Mrs. C. David Gustafson Ms. Nancy Taylor Ms. JoAnn Clark Marilyn and Hugh South Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn and Dr. John Y. Cole Lilly S. Lievsay Linda and John Cogdill Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Stanley Mr. and Mrs. Ridgway Hall Mr. Roy Lind Mr. Eli Cohen and Dr. Virginia Grace Cohen Mary Augusta and George D. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Haller Dr. Frances Litrenta Dr. John Cox and Dr. Lo-Ann Nguyen-Cox Dr. Nancy Eve Thomas and Margaret* and David Hannay Mr. Joseph Loewenstein and Mr. Nick Olmos-Lau James and Ann Coyle Ms. C. Lynne Tatlock Mr. George Hayes Mr. and Mrs. James T. Turner Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Craft, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David Longnecker Dr. Susan R. Haynes and Dr. Carl C. Baker Mr. Scott F. Turow Ms. Katheryn L. Cranford Dr. Kathleen Lynch and Mr. John C. Blaney Ms. Barbara W. Hazelett Mr. Christopher White Webster Ms. Ann Curley Mr. Robert Hebda Ms. Jacqueline West Vice Adm. Dirk J. Debbink * Deceased Mr. Mark E. Herlihy and Ms. Alicia Delahunty Mr. Gerald Widdicombe Ms. Ann M. Kappler Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. DeVincentis Mr. and Mrs. Kevin B. Wilshere Dr. Heather A. Hirschfeld and Phyllis Jane Young Mr. James B. Dinneen, Jr. Prof. Anthony Welch Colleen Dougherty Larry and Amanda Hobart Russo Tracy $250-$499 Ms. Frances G. Durako Dr. Henry Ridgely Horsey Anonymous (2) Dr. and Mrs. Josef C. Dvorak Ms. Rosemarie R. Howe Professor Sharon Achinstein Dr. Terry Dwyer and Dr. Marcy F. Petrini Mr. Gareth L. Howell Ms. Monica Lynn Agree Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Eager Mr. Webb C. Howell Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Alexander Dr. William Eamon Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Hurst Dr. Boris Allan and Ms. Kathleen L. Pomroy Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Eater Ms. Elizabeth M. Janthey Mr. and Mrs. Stewart F. Aly Mr. and Mrs. Emerson J. Elliott Dr. Ann R. Jones Ms. Jerrilyn V. Andrews and Mr. Douglas H. Erwin and Mr. and Mrs. James Jordan Mr. Donald E. Hesse Dr. Wendy Wiswall Dr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Justus Mrs. Philip Aspden Mrs. John Eustice Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Kalb Ms. Doris E. Austin Dr. Robert J. Fehrenbach

24 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 25 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Lynch Dr. Kenneth Rock Drs. Betsy and Alkinoos Vourlekis GIFTS IN KIND Wes MacAdam David Larch and Deborah Roudebush Mr. Eliot A. Wadsworth $250+ Dr. Deborah L. Malkovich and Ms. Theresa Rusch Mr. Ronald E. Wagner and Anonymous Dr. William Freimuth Dr. Ruth Scogna Wagner Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Salter Dr. Erin Blake and Dr. Andrew Reid Ms. Allison Mankin and Dr. Jim Carton Ms. Wendy Wall Ms. Janet A. Sanderson Dr. and Mrs. Werner L. Gundersheimer Dr. Lewis Markoff and Dr. Caroline Samuels Mr. Edward P. Washburn and Mr. Thomas Glenn Saunders Mr. Michael Laird James and Nancy* McBride Ms. Michele J. Orza Mr. Kurt R. Schwarz and Ms. Nancy Merritt Ms. Ann I. McClellan Ms. Patsy G. Kennan Mr. Thomas Weaver Dr. Alan Nelson Mr. Patrick J. McGraw Mr. D. Stanton Sechler Mr. and Mrs. William J. Weinhold Mr. Kirk C. Peterson Sean and Melissa McKenna Professor and Mrs. Mortimer Sellers Dr. and Mrs. John R. Wennersten Mr. Mark S. Sieling and Mr. John R. Algor Ms. Susan McNabb and Mr. Brent Hillman Dr. and Mrs. Paul A. Sieving Ms. Katheryne H. West and Mr. Ralph W. West, Jr. Dr. Brian R. McNeill Kay and George Simmons FIRST FOLIO SOCIETY Ms. Teresa S. Whiting Ms. Margaret G. Mellon Mr. Joseph L. Smith and Members of the First Folio Society have Gary and Josephine Williams Mr. Steven J. Metalitz and Ms. Kit J. Gage Ms. Cheryl S. Roesel chosen to support the Folger Shakespeare Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Williams Mr. James Eric Minton and Ms. Phyllis Smith Library through through bequests, charitable Col. Sarah J. Smith Ms. Katharine Sodergreen Dr. Janet Wittes gift annuities, or other deferred gifts. Ms. Linda S. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Sollinger Mr. Clark M. Wright Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey C. Morell Mr. Steven Solow Marjorie Williams Wright Professor Judith H. Anderson Mr. Gerald J. Morris Mr. Robert Spann and Irene and Alan Wurtzel Ms. Doris E. Austin Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Myers Ms. Elizabeth Whiteley The Yacobucci Family Dr. Carol Barton Dr. Klaus Nehring Mr. Steve Spaulding and Professor Carmen A. Casís Dr. Alicen B. Spaulding IN HONOR OF: Mrs. Nancy Nelkin Ms. Mary Cole Professor Richard E. Spear and $1,000+ Dr. Alan Nelson The Honorable Esther Coopersmith Professor Athena Tacha Professor Charles Beem Mr. and Mrs. Michael Neuman Dr. Elizabeth L. Eisenstein* Ms. Janet C. Stavropoulos Susan Sachs Goldman Mr. Mike Newton and Dr. Linda Werling Susan Fawcett and Richard Donovan Ms. Cathleen Ann Steg and Gail Kern Paster Wendy Frieman and David Johnson Ms. Diane Ney Mr. Schuyler E. Schell Ms. Alice L. Norris $250-$999 Dr. Elise Goodman (bequest will be in Ms. Elizabeth Stein memory of Elise Goodman and Mr. and Mrs. Douglas O’Donnell Mr. Daniel Steiner Lou Cohen Rolf Soellner) Mr. and Mrs. Ernest T. Oskin Mr. Carl Wesley Stephens and Mark Pigott Mrs. Karen Gundersheimer Betty Ann Ottinger Ms. Catherine L. Moore IN MEMORY OF: Dr. Werner L. Gundersheimer Dr. Jessie Ann Owens Mr. and Mrs. Donald Street Dr. Elizabeth H. Hageman $1,000+ Oxford University Press, Inc. Allan and Kim Stypeck Dr. Jay L. Halio Thomas L. Berger Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Palmer Ms. Theresa A. Sullivan Catherine Held Rodney Fisk Ms. Barbara A. Patocka Mr. and Mrs. Bruce N. Tanzer Eric H. Hertting Lily St. John McKee Dr. Hans S. Pawlisch Mr. and Mrs. Paul Taskier Mr. Michael J. Hirrel Herman Obermayer Mr. and Mrs. Kevin L. Pearson Mr. Jonathan Taylor and Ms. Diane Dr. Dee Ann Holisky Shaughnessy Edward and Muriel Orenstein Linda Levy Peck Ms. Deidre Holmes DuBois and Mr. Joseph Perta Mr. and Mrs. Grant P. Thompson Paul Ruxin Mr. Christopher E. DuBois Dr. and Mrs. Joram Piatigorsky Ms. Elizabeth Tobey $250-$999 William L. Hopkins James and Carol Tsang Ms. Valerie Elizabeth Powell Brian Cabe Ms. Elizabeth J. Hunt Mrs. Ellen Tunstall Drs. Maria T. and Thomas A. Prendergast Charles R. Forker Maxine Isaacs Ms. Julie Uno Mrs. Donald Rappaport Mark Kishlansky Mrs. Robert J.T. Joy Mr. Leon S. Reed and Ms. Lois S. Lembo Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Vajs Dr. Elizabeth T. Kennan Dr. Markley Roberts Dr. Arina van Breda Karl K. and Carrol Benner Kindel Winnie and Alexander Robinson Drs. Alden and Virginia Vaughan Dr. and Mrs. Peter J. Ventimiglia * Deceased

26 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 27 Professor John N. King FACILITY USE Pauline G. King AARPI Roster of Volunteers Merwin Kliman Biotechnology Innovation Organization Professor Barbara Kreps California Life Sciences Association The Folger is profoundly grateful to the volunteers whose time and service from Dr. Carole Levin Capitol Hill Community Foundation July 2015 through June 2016 made possible the work of the institution. Lilly S. Lievsay The College Board Dr. Nancy Klein Maguire Corn Refiners Association DOCENTS Linda Itzoe Robin Swope Pam McFarland and Brian Hagenbuch Council for Advancement and Support of We are profoundly grateful David Jeffrey Katherine (Kate) Tallis Education Mr. Gene B. Mercer to our docents, who play Susan Jonas Sally Tassler Emergency Committee for American Trade a vital role in engaging Professor H. C. Erik Midelfort and Margaret Kane Amy Thompson Ms. Anne L. McKeithen Goldman, Sachs & Co. and educating everyone who comes to the Folger Tom Kelly Mary Claire Tracy Roger and Robin Millay Ms. Maria L. Kocylowsky Shakespeare Library. Carrol Kindel E.J. Truax Dr. Barbara A. Mowat National Domestic Violence Hotline Docents gave 3,756 hours Kathleen Kovach Helen Urquhart Ms. Sheila A. Murphy PEN/Faulkner Foundation in 2015/16 to serve our Steve Krawczel Pamela Wagner Herman J. Obermayer* Portland Cement Association visitors. Nancy Langston Gail Weigl Gail Kern Paster Satellite Industry Association, Inc. Suzanne Austin Elizabeth Layton Louise Wheatley Linda Levy Peck School for Ethics & Global Leadership Jane Bakken April Lenhard Meredith Whitfield Dr. Sylvia Holton Peterson Strategic Investment Management Stephanie Ballard Bethany Lilly Leonardo Williams Professor Kristen Poole Vassar College Meghan Bartels Elva Malone Joe Winski Professor Anne Lake Prescott Vital Transformation Dorothy Boerner Mimi Marquet Maureen Yacobucci Dr. Mark Rankin Wells Fargo Linda Bohannon Jessica Clark May Dr. Markley Roberts Christopher “Buddy” 2016 FOLGER * Deceased Bethany McCall Dr. Richard Schoch Cassidy GALA COMMITTEE Junius C McElveen Mrs. S. Schoenbaum Dorothy Christensen We acknowledge the Mary McElveen Lisa Schroeter Mary Jo Christian Gala Co-Chairs, Honorary Deborah Merrick-Wilson Co-Chairs, members Dr. Lois Green Schwoerer Osa Coffey Robin Millay of the Wonder of Will Mr. Theodore Sedgwick John “Skip” Collins Brian Miller Honorary Committee Albert H. Small Gerry Connolly whose generous leadership Julia Francis Miller Neal T. Turtell Diana Darwin and support ensured Elaine Pouletsos Miller the incredible success Drs. Alden and Virginia Vaughan Laura Donnelly Janice Molchon of the 2016 Folger Gala, Barbara Wainscott Katie Dvorak benefiting the Folger’s Elizabeth Montagne Dr. Barbara A. Wanchisen Russo Tracy Marilyn Eisenhardt year of commemorative Francesca Morizio programs. Richard M. Waugaman, M.D. and Christina Elliott Michael Neuman Elisabeth P. Waugaman, Ph.D. John P. Finedore Co-Chairs Jennifer Newton Professor R L Widmann Marya Fitzgerald May Liang and James Lintott Jane Orci The Honorable Karen Hastie Williams Janice Ford Lawrence Plotkin Honorary Co-Chairs Dr. Georgianna Ziegler Alexandra Forrester Amina Rahman The British Ambassador Gina Guglielmo Penelope Rahming and Lady Darroch Leah Haile Sarah Rosenbaum Nancy Glenn Hansen Members Nicholas Rosenberger Stephanie Hartman Jarrett and Nora Arp Melinda Rubin Emily Heard Louis and Bonnie Cohen Reginald Saville Martha Hennen Phil Deutch and Rebecca Schmid Marne Levine Nancy Howard Lisa Schroeter Lisa Fuentes and Every effort has been made to ensure that this list of donors is correct. If your name is Kate Hughes Thomas M. Cohen misspelled or omitted, please accept our sincere apologies and inform the Development Diane Shages Office at 202 675 0321.

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30 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 31 PUBLIC PROGRAMS Tim Carlton Veronica Faust John Hall USHERS AND VOLUNTEERS Marshall Carolus Stacilyn Feldman Ken Halperin We are grateful to those Diane Carroad Louise Fenner Nancy Halsey Teresa Wood Teresa ushers and volunteers Joan Carter Renee Fischman Nancy Glenn Hansen who give their time to Virginia Harris ensure the Folger’s public Bryant Centofanti Diane Flaherty programs are welcoming to Kassandra Cerveny Rick Flaherty Sherry Hart our audiences. Jane Chick Jim Foley Ellen Hellawell Kate Abbott Timothy Christenson Jean Miller Frane Judith Henderson Ginger Ackerman Nancie Coan Alan Friedman Dale Hill Adriana Acosta Bernie Cohen Lisa Fthenakis Ariel Hill-Davis Heather Addison Ken Cohen Bob Fuller Marie Himel Tamara Alfson Claudia Lee Cooper Kay Fuller Blanche Hirsch Emily Almand Steve Cordle Ann Futrell Chi Hoang Louis Altarescu Sarah Corley Sierra Gardner David Hoexter Jean Arnold Erin Cromer Lisa Gill Joyce Howland Joan Darrah Stephen Gill Joyce Hubbard Doris Balinsky Kelly Lee Allison Meyer Tené Davis Alda Giusti William Hunt Pat Bangs Katherine Leiden Rhoda Miller Bridget Dean-Pratt Nancy Glover Bob Iacovazzi Barry Barriere Gail Lelyveld Mark Miller Rebecca deFreitas Margie Goergen-Rood Neelam Ihsanullah Ariel Baska Dianne Levine Carolee Mills Kate DeMoss Kathleen Gohn Diane Jackson Christina Bauer Ronn Levine Marianne Moerman Jacob Diamond Mark Goldberg Elizabeth Jacobs Regina Bellina Teri Levitin Elizabeth Montagne Kelly Dickinson Ellen Goldberg Susan Jacons Eileen Berman Patricia Locke Robin Morgan Michael Doheny Anne Gortenburg Kristine Jantzi Sharon Bisdee Kelle Long Sam Morgan Eileen Doheny Gary Gortenburg Tammara Jenkins Doris Bloch Olivier Long Nancy Morrison Molly Donahue Gail Graham Jessica Johnson John Bobalek Roy Lunitz Elisabeth Mox Mary Pat Donelan Cameron Green Kristin Johnson Diane Bodeen Wes Macadam Rafayna Naquib Mary Duru Betty Greene Bart Jones Virgil Bodeen Glen Macdonald Jeremy Nice Linda Dziobek Alice Gregal Valerie Kaplan Brittany Bolen Kathie Mack Marsha Nice Carrie-Lee Early Peter Gribbin Carole Karp Nancy Bort Claudia Maloney Denise Norwood Rose Eberhardt Marlene Gustafson Carol Keith Pamela Brooke Dorothy Marschak Fran Nozary Catherine Falknor Dave Gustafson Emily Kelley Margaret Brown Carol Marsh James O’Grady Miriam Kelty Mike Brown Alisa Paige Mason Barbara O’Grady Ed Kelty Dee Brown Carol Matteini Donelle O’Meara Lynne Kennedy Kalyn Bruin Shelley Mayo Barbara Omohundro David Kessler Carole Buncher Nicole Mazur Mary O’Reilly Tracy Russo Tracy Linda Killian Megan Burgoyne Mike McAvey Anita O’Reilly Renee Klish Devin Burke Brenda McCoy Chris Orvin Michael Kolakowski Martha Burns Lauren McDermott Barbara Ottke Catharine Kopac Brett Busang Judy MdDowell Rita Parks Will Kruse John Butler John McGraw Patricia Pasqual Joan Kugler Leon Calin Susanna McIlwaine Emily Pegues Jerome Kuta Loredana Calin David Megel Margery Perko Gene Lang Donna Canada Gail Meighan Karen Peters Anne Larin Karen Canova Jeffrey Menzer John Peters Michelle Metzger

32 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 33 Robin Phillips Stephanie Schlatter Jessica Tollestrup Ruthann Pippenger Diane Seeger Nadia Tongour Roster of Fellows Wes Pippert Aditi Sen Erin Turkstra Penny Pollard Lonna Shafritz Sherrell Varner The Folger would like to acknowledge the scholars who received Folger Michael Pollard BJ Shannon David Varvel fellowships in 2015/16 whose research, writing, and ideas sustain our vibrant Tammy Preston Boyd Lilly Shoup Kate Varvel intellectual community and carry our collections out into the world. Kathleen Pugh Teri Sierra Lisa Volk Justice Randolph Hane Simpson Valentina Volkovitskaya Ruth Ahnert, English and Drama, Kimberly Coles, English, Alexis Rice Maurice Singer Harvey Walden Queen Mary University of London University of Maryland Matt Richards Melanie Sletten Renate Wallenberg Jorianne Richards Leila Smith Jill Walling Tudor Networks of Power ‘A Fault of Humour’: The Constitution Rosalyn Ridgway William Smith Don Walsh of Belief in Early Modern England Steven Riker Juliette Smith Jerry Weinstein Valerie Bajou, Curator, Geoffrey Rinard Nenita Sola Etarae Weinstein Chateau de Versailles Megan Cook, English, Jane Rinard Monica St. Dennis Dorothy Wiess The Image of Ophelia in the Colby College Sue Robinson Jacalyn Stein Dave Wendler Visual Arts in Europe Chaucer and Early Modern Rich Robinson Libby Stephenson Alison Westfall Antiquarianism Berthica Rodriguez- Steve Sternheimer Caryn Wexler Graydon Beeks, Jr., Music History, McCleary Sue Sternheimer Sheila Wickouski Pomona College Andrew Devereux, History, Ashley Rose Christopher Stewart Stephen Williams The Covent Garden Theatre Orchestra Loyola Marymount University Gene Rosenfeld Carol Strachan Ellena Williams 1757-1767 The Other Side of Empire: Spain, the Shirley Rosenfeld Elizabeth Sutherland Mark Williams Mediterranean, and the Evolution of Katie Ross Katherine Tallis Trudie Williams Pamela Benson, English, Universalist Imperial Ideologies, Mary Jane Ruhl Rob Tarakan Linda Joy Wilson Rhode Island College 1479-1551 Melanie Russell Barbara Taylor Linda Winer Aemilia Lanyer’s Passions Scott Sanger Alysia Thaxton Arnold Wollman Dennis Duncan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bozena Sarneck-Crouch Molly Thebes Jane Woodard Liza Blake, English, Bodleian Libraries Center for the Dennis Sather Kay Thompson Naomi Woolsey University of Toronto Study of the Book, Oxford Margaret Scrymser Laura Tiehen Steven Wright Early Modern Literary Physics A Survey of English Book Indexes, Shannon Schaper Trudy Todd Janice Yeadon 1500-1600 Mary Yee Claire Bowditch, English and Drama, Marielle Young Loughborough University Michael Gary Zeliff Karen Zens The Folger Shakespeare Library’s Materials in the Cambridge Edition of Karen Zerling James Brantley

the Writings of Aphra Behn Daniel Schwartz

Mark Thornton Burnett, English, Queen’s University, Belfast Hamlet and World Cinema

Vincent Carey, History, State University of New York at Plattsburgh Murder on the Border of the Pale: A Sixteenth-Century Irish Microhistory

34 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger AnnualAnnual ReportReport 2015/162015/16 35 Rachel Eisendrath, English, Elaine Hobby, English and Drama, Glen McGillivray, Theater History, Leslie Smith, Book Artist, Barnard College Loughborough University University of Sydney University of Iowa Renaissance Ekphrasis: The Folger Shakespeare Library’s Communities of Sentiment: Wonder and Curiosity: Art and Artifact Materials in the Cambridge Edition of Actors, Audiences and Emotions in Broadside Project the Writings of Aphra Behn the English Theatre, 1710-1812 Clarie Farago, Art History, Nicholas Smith, Archivist, University of Colorado, Boulder John Hunt, History and Political Christia Mercer, Philosophy, Victoria & Albert Museum Archives Art as Institution: The Fabrication Science, Utah Valley University Columbia University An Actor’s Library: David Garrick, Book of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Treatise on Gaming and Sociability in the Streets Feeling the Way Truth: Women, Collecting, and Literary Friendships Painting’, 1651 of Early Modern Rome Reason, and the Development of Modern Philosophy Goran Stanivukovic, English, J. Caitlin Finlayson, English, Newton Key, History, Saint Mary’s University University of Michigan, Dearborn Eastern Illinois University Meredith Neuman, English, Earliest Shakespeare Shakespeare and Comics The Rye House Plot and the Clark University Association Crisis Coming to Terms with Alan Stewart, English, David Gants, English, Early American Poetry Columbia University Florida State University Peter Kirwan, English, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Volume II: An Introduction to Descriptive University of Nottingham Lucy Nicholas, History, Late Elizabethan Writings, 1596-1602 Bibliography Marlowe’s Early Books: ‘Henry VI’ Tel Aviv University and ‘The Whole Contention’ Intellectual Networks in the European Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, English, John Garrison, English, Reformation: Johannes Sturm and University of Leiden Carroll University Ivan Lupic, English, Humanism Across Boundaries Times of Affliction: The Religious The Classical Love Elegy in Early Stanford University Experience of Suffering in Modern England: Desire, Mourning, Subjects of Advice: Drama and Marissa Nicosia, English, Early Modern Britain, 1550-1700 and Memory Counsel in Early Modern England Scripps College ‘A Historie, Couch’d in a Play’: Alexandra Walsham, History, Genelle Gertz, English, Laurie Maguire, English, Historical Figures in Seventeenth- University of Cambridge Washington and Lee University Magdalen College, Oxford Century Drama The Reformation of the Generations: What Happened to Women Mystics Typographical Tales Age, Ancestry, and Memory in After 1534? Jason Powell, English, England 1500-1700 Saint Joseph’s University Jessica Goethals, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Katherine Williams, Literature, Villa I Tatti Wyatt the Elder, Volume 2 New York University, Abu Dhabi The Enduring Textual Afterlife of the Irregular Bodies: Performing Disability Sack of Rome (1527) Suparna Roychoudhury, English, on the Early Modern Stage Mount Holyoke College Yassine El Mansouri Yassine Nicholas Hardy, Research Fellow, Phantasmatic Shakespeare: Louise Wilson, English, English, Trinity College, Cambridge Imagination in the Age of Early University of St. Andrews Modern Science The Late Humanist ars critica in Reading ‘Amadis de Gaule’ in the Seventeenth-Century England: Eighteenth Century: A Folger Copy A Study in Educational Diffusion Lorenzo Sacchini, Italian Literature, and its Annotators University of Mary Washington The Duke of Mantua’s Loves in an Italian Manuscript of the Seventeenth Century (Folger Library, MS V.a. 569)

36 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger AnnualAnnual ReportReport 2015/162015/16 37 THE TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE Financial Statements FOLGER SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL LIBRARY STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES THE TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE for the year ended June 30, 2016 FOLGER SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL LIBRARY Temporarily Permanently Balance Sheet, June 30, 2016 Unr______estricted ______Restricted ______Restricted ______Total OPERATING REVENUES ASSETS AND OTHER SUPPORT Cash and cash equivalents $ 1,499,640 Endowment distribution $ 10,328,958 $ 3,777,840 $ 14,106,798 Accounts receivable 1,078,777 U. S. Government grants 1,500,888 1,500,888 Contributions receivable, net 214,541 Gifts and other grants 524,182 2,066,594 2,590,776 Other assets 1,736,555 Other 3,679,928 3,679,928 Investments 306,317,959 Net assets released from restrictions for operations 20,540,554 (20,540,554) Property, plant and equipment, net ______44,315,693 ______TOTAL OPERATING REVENUES TOTAL ASSETS $ ______355,163,165 ______AND OTHER SUPPORT ______35,073,622 ______(13,195,232) ______LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS OPERATING EXPENSES Accounts payable $ 494,879 Administrative and general 4,643,463 4,643,463 Accrued liabilities 124,131 Office of Development 1,387,419 1,387,419 Deferred income 509,407 Central Library 7,160,338 7,160,338 Liability for life income obligations 485,867 Museum shop and rental properties 317,044 317,044 Post-retirement benefit obligations 9,757,636 Academic programs 2,227,489 2,227,489 Asset retirement obligations 169,365 Public programs 4,221,483 4,221,483 Grant Activities 1,385,253 1,385,253 Other liabilities ______552,322 ______TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES 21,342,489 21,342,489 TOTAL LIABILITIES $ 12,093,607 ______CHANGE IN NET ASSETS NET ASSETS FROM OPERATIONS ______13,731,133 ______(13,195,232) ______535,901 Unrestricted $ 64,774,831 NONOPERATING ACTIVITIES Temporarily restricted 253,096,605 Realized and change in Permanently restricted 25,198,122 unrealized gains on investments, ______and investment income (2,328,846) (9,098,134) (11,426,980) TOTAL NET ASSETS $ 343,069,558 Allocation of endowment ______spending to operations (10,328,958) (3,777,839) (14,106,797) Change in net value of life income funds 17,872 $ (42) 17,830 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $ 355,163,165 ______Gifts to life funds, endowment and plant 50,933 25,210 319,925 396,068 Change in post-retirement benefits, other than periodic pension cost (1,264,681) (1,264,681) Transfers between net asset categories 203,441 (203,441) Net assets released from restrictions for nonoperations ______7,377 ______(7,377) ______The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements. TOTAL NONOPERATING ACTIVITIES ______(13,660,734) ______(12,840,268) ______116,442 ______(26,384,560) The Folger Shakespeare Library is a private, independently endowed, tax exempt institution governed INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS 70,399 (26,035,500) 116,442 (25,848,659) by an independent Board of Governors. The Folger Shakespeare Library is administered by the Trustees ______of Amherst College in accordance with the terms of the wills of its founders, Henry Clay Folger and Emily NET ASSETS, BEGINNING OF YEAR 64,704,432 279,132,105 25,081,680 368,918,217 Jordan Folger. Therefore, the Trustees of Amherst College are the official body under which the Folger ______Shakespeare Memorial Library is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service under sections 501(c)(3) and NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR $ 64,774,831 $253,096,605 $ 25,198,122 $343,069,558 509(a)(1) of the tax code, with Federal Employer Tax ID #04-2103542. ______

38 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 Folger Annual Report 2015/16 39 Sumorry Alpha, Elizabeth DeBold, Marta Nalaskowska, Folger Board and Staff Security Officer Curatorial Assistant Project Conservator Andrea Byrd, Paul Dingman, Photography JULY 2015 – JUNE 2016 Security Officer EMMO Project Manager Julie Ainsworth, LaTanya Gant, Sarah Powell, Head of Photography Special Police Officer EMMO Paleographer and Digital Imaging Board Of Governors Staff Arnaldo Paes Caldeira, John Morris, Acquisitions William Davis, Building Services Technician Special Police Officer CHAIR DIRECTOR’S OFFICE Melissa Cook, Senior Photography Louis R. Cohen Michael Witmore, Frank Huggins, Quintin Peterson, Head of Acquisitions Associate Director Building Services Technician Special Police Officer Erica Hamilton, VICE CHAIRS Urszula Kolodziej, Yvonne Barton, Gregory Pendleton, Helen Rowe, Project Photographer Roger Millay Acquisitions Assistant Executive Assistant to Building Services Specialist Special Police Officer Melanie Leung, Susan Sachs Goldman Cataloging the Director Martha Shields, Lucien Thony, Image Request Coordinator Erin Blake, Lari Lavigne, Building Services Specialist Special Police Officer MEMBERS Head of Collections Reading Room Administrative Assistant D. Jarrett Arp Business Office Terrill Tiggle, Information Services Elizabeth Walsh, Jeff Zanghi, General Office Assistant Simon Russell Beale External Relations Deborah J. Leslie, Head of Reader Services Garland Scott, Controller The Lord Browne of CENTRAL LIBRARY Senior Cataloger Rosalind Larry, Head of External Relations Giuseppe DeBartolo, Madingley Dan De Simone, Ron Bogdan, Head of Circulation Esther French, Staff Accountant Rebecca Bushnell Librarian Senior Cataloger Abbie Weinberg, Communications Associate Yvonne Davis, Erin Wuebbens, Sarah Hovde, Reference and Outreach Vinton G. Cerf Accounts Payable Benjamin Lauer, Administrative Assistant, Cataloger Specialist Lady Darroch Communications and Coordinator Librarian’s Office Alex Kyrios, Camille Seerattan, Social Media Assistant Christine Lucas, Philip J. Deutch Georgianna Ziegler, Cataloger Reference Assistant Accounting Assistant Peter Edwards Office of Special Events Louis B. Thalheimer Emily Wahl, LuEllen DeHaven, Wyatt R. Haskell Caroline Bedinger, Human Resources Associate Librarian and Metadata Specialist Reference Assistant Director of Special Events Kimberley Mauldin, Head of Reference Deneen Howell Alan Katz, and Visitor Relations Head of Human Resources Sloane Whidden, Conservation Circulation Assistant Renate Mesmer, Maxine Isaacs Rebecca Scott, Registrar and Exhibitions Claire Natkin, J. Franklin Mowery Meghan Tucker-Carafano, Edward R. Leahy Special Events Manager Manager Benefits Administrator Head of Conservation Circulation Assistant May Liang Madeline Torres, Kate Haase, Jon-Michael Eclar, Rhea DeStefano, Rachael Mueller, Event Services Assistant Exhibitions Assistant Carol L. Ludwig Human Resources Senior Paper Conservator Reader Registrar Matthew Frederick, Administrative Assistant Caroline Duroselle-Melish, Ken Ludwig Linda Hohneke, Rachel Hammer, Gift Shop Operations Information Systems Andrew W. Mellon Curator Circulation Page Louisa Newlin of Early Modern Books Book Conservator Manager Matt Bogen, Andrew Nussbaum and Prints Adrianne Bell, Denise Dolan, Head of Information Systems Circulation Page Andrew Oliver DIVISION OF Heather Wolfe, Book Conservator Luis Sato, ADMINISTRATIVE Curator of Manuscripts Austin Plann Curley, Gail Kern Paster Systems Engineer SERVICES and Archivist Digitization/Exhibition Stuart Rose Melody Fetske, Alex Billups, Project Conservator Loren Rothschild Director of Finance and Information Technology Services Administrator James Shapiro Administration Lady Westmacott Building Services Security Ricky Mitchell, Laura J. Yerkovich David Conine, Head of Facilities Chief of Safety and Security EX OFFICIO Dorothy Morgan, Michael Witmore, Building Services Michael Gregg, Director, Folger Coordinator Captain Shakespeare Library Jodie Pitman, Gary Thomas, Property Manager Sergeant Mitchell Norman, Frederick Baylor, Chief Engineer Sergeant * Deceased

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