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Colleen Kennedy

earned her Ph.D. in English Literature at Ohio State University with a graduate minor in Theatre. Her dissertation and subsequent publications have focused on early modern perfumes, and she has also written about and presented on teaching Shakespeare. She earned her M.A. in English and B.A. in Classics at the University at Buffalo. She served as a visiting faculty member at the University of Iowa and Shippensburg University and now works as the Publicist for Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.
Does a rose by any other name smell as sweet? Modern perfumes and the Myth of the Tudors
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Does a rose by any other name smell as sweet? Modern perfumes and the Myth of the Tudors

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Does a rose by any other name smell as sweet? Can we capture the perfumes of the past to savor in the present? This blog post looks at two 21st-century perfumes that try to market their scents by evoking early…