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A ‘declineing time’? The final illnesses of Constance and Elizabeth Lucy
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A ‘declineing time’? The final illnesses of Constance and Elizabeth Lucy

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Emma Marshall

Folger Fellow Emma Marshall explores the history of the women of the Lucy family.

Beyond a Cure for Plague
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Beyond a Cure for Plague

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Kathleen Miller

Fellow Kathleen Miller explores the Early Modern use of plague cures to treat more than one type of illness

Interview and excerpt: Jessica Goethals, Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court
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Interview and excerpt: Jessica Goethals, Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court

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Jessica Goethals

An interview with Dr. Jessica Goethals and an excerpt from her 2023 book Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court.

Who Cares about Care?
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Who Cares about Care?

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Zachary Dorner

Fellow Zachary Dorner explores how labor, medical care, and class interacted in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Puzzling Through a Stage Direction in Love’s Labor’s Lost
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Puzzling Through a Stage Direction in Love’s Labor’s Lost

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Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich

Fellow Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich explores what a stage direction about Blackamoors might mean.

Flamboyant Plants
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Flamboyant Plants

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Amy Reid

Artistic Research Fellow Amy Reid explores the queer history and meaning of plants using the Folger collection in an audiovisual project.

Surveying the Bird’s-Eye View
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Surveying the Bird’s-Eye View

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Mark Rosen

Fellow Mark Rosen explores the Folger’s collection from a bird’s-eye view.

Mariam Rising: A Short Closet Play by Jay Eddy
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Mariam Rising: A Short Closet Play by Jay Eddy

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Jay Eddy

Folger artistic fellow Jay Eddy presents a closet play combining early modern drama with current events.

The Jew of Malta and Empire
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The Jew of Malta and Empire

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Philip Goldfarb Styrt

Fellow Philip Goldfarb Styrt uses Marlowe’s play to examine how early modern drama portrayed the problems of empire.

Race B4 Race Seminar 3: What We’re Reading and Why
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Race B4 Race Seminar 3: What We’re Reading and Why

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Kavita Mudan Finn

In the third post of the series, a member of the Race Before Race Mentorship Network discuss what they’re reading and thinking about in their monthly Reading Group.

The Americas Gaze upon Europe, 1492-1800
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The Americas Gaze upon Europe, 1492-1800

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Lauren Beck

Fellow Lauren Beck lays out her plans to use travel narratives to explore non-European perceptions of Spain in the early modern period.

Race B4 Race Seminar 2: What We’re Reading and Why
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Race B4 Race Seminar 2: What We’re Reading and Why

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Kavita Mudan Finn

In the second post of the series, a member of the Race Before Race Mentorship Network discuss what they’re reading and thinking about in their monthly Reading Group.

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