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Announcement: 2018-2019 Long-term Fellows
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Announcement: 2018-2019 Long-term Fellows

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Amanda Herbert Meredith Deeley

The Folger Institute is pleased to announce our 2018-2019 cohort of Long-term Fellows. This year we will welcome seven long-term scholars to the Folger: Patricia Akhimie, Liza Blake, Heidi Craig, Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto, Douglas M. Lanier, Simon Newman, and Isaac…

The itemized life: John Kay’s notebook
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The itemized life: John Kay’s notebook

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Laura Kolb

Folger X.d.446, the notebook of John Kay, combines accounts and verses. Short-term fellow Laura Kolb argues that Kay’s book is noteworthy not because it combines these things, but because it does so with both care and a kind of inventiveness,…

The Strange and Practical Beauty of Small-Format Herbals
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The Strange and Practical Beauty of Small-Format Herbals

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Katarzyna Lecky

A guest post by Katarzyna Lecky The Folger Shakespeare Library has a wealth of pre-Linnaean English herbals (printed guides to the medicinal qualities of plants) ranging from gorgeous folios to pocket-sized reference manuals. Although the large-format botanical works boast an undeniable…

Polyglot Poetics: Transnational Early Modern Literature
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Polyglot Poetics: Transnational Early Modern Literature

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Nigel Smith

A guest post by Dr. Nigel Smith I am writing a transnational history of early modern European literature. Our inherited history of the different early modern vernacular languages and their literatures was fashioned through the lens of the 19th-century and…

Announcing a New Folger-NACBS Short-Term Fellowship
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Announcing a New Folger-NACBS Short-Term Fellowship

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Amanda Herbert

The Folger Institute and the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) are delighted to announce a new fellowship for scholars of the British world who are working on topics from the early modern period through to the present day.…

Books of Offices
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Books of Offices

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Nicholas Popper

A guest post by Nicholas Popper The Folger has fourteen of an odd, unloved sort of manuscript that I’ve taken to calling “Books of Offices,” which exist in over a hundred versions throughout archives in the US and UK. Typically…

Bound to Serve: Apprenticeship Indentures at the Folger
Indenture of apprenticeship for John Holden
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Bound to Serve: Apprenticeship Indentures at the Folger

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Urvashi Chakravarty

A guest post by Dr. Urvashi Chakravarty In 1616, the apprentice Robert Dering received the following letter from his master Thomas Style. Letter from Thomas Style to Robert Dering Dering was bound overseas with one Mr. Culpepper, and in his…

Collecting the world in seventeenth-century London
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Collecting the world in seventeenth-century London

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Surekha Davies 

Guest post by Surekha Davies  From at least the sixteenth century, overseas artifacts found their way into European princely and scholarly collections. There they were catalogued, analyzed, and displayed alongside natural and artificial curiosities from classical cameos to blowfish. I am…

Theatrical disturbances and actors behaving badly: what the Drury Lane Prompter’s Journal tells us about nineteenth-century theatrical life
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Theatrical disturbances and actors behaving badly: what the Drury Lane Prompter’s Journal tells us about nineteenth-century theatrical life

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Sarah Burdett

Guest post by Dr. Sarah Burdett What was life like inside the nineteenth-century London theatre? How smoothly did performances run? And how professionally did actors behave? The Drury Lane Prompter’s Journal, 1812-1818, held at the Folger, provides an excellent resource…

Early modern legal violence: for the common good?
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Early modern legal violence: for the common good?

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Sarah Higinbotham

A guest post by Dr. Sarah Higinbotham In a 1628 sermon preached before the Assize court at Oxford, Robert Harris reminds the “Sheriffes, Iustices, Iudges” that they have taken “an oath for the common good.” He reminds them that they…

Consuming the New World
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Consuming the New World

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Misha Ewen

A guest post by Misha Ewen William Petre (1575-1637) was a typical gentleman of his time. He was 22 years old and newly married when he began keeping an account book of his household expenses. Between 1597 and 1610 Petre…

The Folger Institute Partners with the Shakespeare Association of America on a New Fellowship
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The Folger Institute Partners with the Shakespeare Association of America on a New Fellowship

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Amanda Herbert

The Folger Institute is pleased to announce a new fellowship in partnership with the Shakespeare Association of America, designed to promote scholarly work on William Shakespeare, his works, and their joined legacies. The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) is a…

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