Queen Elizabeth I portrayed by Penelope Rahming cuts Shakespeare's birthday cake
Nicolo Whimsey entertains in the Elizabethan Garden.
Nickel Shakespeare Girls - Pencer Powell (on top) and Joanna Herath performing a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lex Davis (left) and Casey Kaleba demonstrate swordplay on Folger's front lawn. Kaleba's title is 'Fight Director".
The WETA Classical Players perform in the Paster Reading Room
Queen Elizabeth I portrayed by Penelope Rahming is a DC Public Library Storyteller, hear reading to Audrey Neumann (age 7) of D.C.
Kathleen Pugh as Feste.is a DC Public Library Storyteller, hear reading to Layla Nooruddin (age 2) of D.C.
Camille Quinn (age 8) from Fairfax Va. tries on clothes from Shakespeare's Closet in the New Reading Room
Cate McGregor (age 8) from D.C. poses for an Elizabethan portrait
Queen Elizabeth I portrayed by Penelope Rahming. Lawrence Plotkin as Lord Burleigh. William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, KG was an English statesman, the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign.
VIDEO - "Happy Birthday Will Shakespeare"
Dr. Michael Witmore, Director Folger Shakespeare Library. Queen Elizabeth I portrayed by Penelope Rahming.
Sophia Smith (left) and Sienna Wanagas recite from Romeo and Juliet from the Folger Theatre stage. Cam Magee (right) is Mistress of the Revels.
Sophia Smith (left) recites from Romeo and Juliet from the Folger Theatre stage. Cam Magee (right) is Mistress of the Revels.
Sophia Smith (left) and Sienna Wanagas just recited from Romeo and Juliet from the Folger Theatre stage. Cam Magee (center) is Mistress of the Revels.
Casey Kaleba demonstrates swordplay on Folger's front lawn. Kaleba's title is 'Fight Director".
