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Jason McElligott

is the Director of Marsh’s Library in Dublin, which was founded in 1707. Educated as an early-modernist at University College Dublin and St John’s College, Cambridge, he is interested in the political and literary afterlives of seventeenth-century print culture. Over the next 12 months he will publish articles on Bram Stoker’s reading of pamphlets from the 1680s; the birth of newspaper advertising in the 1650s; women’s book ownership in seventeenth-century Ireland; and the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820 to assassinate the British cabinet. He has two book-length projects which are woefully overdue and is actively ignoring emails from his publishers.
The Charming Mr. Stoker and the Monster Within
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The Charming Mr. Stoker and the Monster Within

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A guest post by Jason McElligott Let me begin with a confession that may not endear me to many friends of the Folger: I don’t enjoy Shakespeare. To be completely honest, I find him hard work. Now, I am not…