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Claire M. L. Bourne

is Associate Professor of English at Penn State University. Her first monograph, Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. She the editor of Shakespeare / Text, published by Bloomsbury Arden in 2021, and her next project considers book design experiments, editorial failures, and counterfactual editorial histories.
“Beloveed Plays”: A Sammelband of 1680s Quartos & Its Readers
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“Beloveed Plays”: A Sammelband of 1680s Quartos & Its Readers

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A Guest Post by Claire M. L. Bourne A major fringe benefit of systematically going through so many books (1,300+) at the Folger last year, looking for typographic conventions and experiments, was encountering traces of use and reading that have…

"This Play I Red" and other marginal notes on reading
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"This Play I Red" and other marginal notes on reading

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A guest post by Claire M. L. Bourne As a long-term fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library this year, I have been surveying all the English playbooks in the collection—from 1500 to 1709—in order to understand changing conventions of dramatic…