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New resources, old plays: expanding A Digital Anthology of Early Modern Drama
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New resources, old plays: expanding A Digital Anthology of Early Modern Drama

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Elizabeth Williamson Meaghan J. Brown

The Folger’s Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama (EMED) is delighted to announce the release of twenty early modern plays, freely available to read and download. EMED offers you the chance to explore the vibrant scene of professional theater…

Introducing A Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama
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Introducing A Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama

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Elizabeth Williamson Meaghan J. Brown

You know your Shakespeare, but who else was writing for the early modern stage? What did drama look like between 1576 to 1642? How long did plays take to reach print? What playing companies appeared on the title page? Who…

What’s in a genre? Metadata, Controlled Vocabularies, and the Folger’s Digital Anthology
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What’s in a genre? Metadata, Controlled Vocabularies, and the Folger’s Digital Anthology

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Meaghan J. Brown

  Shakespeare’s plays are organized in the First Folio into three now familiar genre categories: Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories. Later scholars added a fourth, describing certain late plays like The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale that contain elements of both…

Where is that book? Tracing copies imaged for EEBO
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Where is that book? Tracing copies imaged for EEBO

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Meaghan J. Brown

How do you find a book? There are times when not just any copy will do, when you need to locate one exact copy of a book with a certain history. While gathering information for the Folger’s Digital Anthology of…