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The Charming Mr. Stoker and the Monster Within
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The Charming Mr. Stoker and the Monster Within

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Jason McElligott

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…

Spanish Book Collection at the Folger
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Spanish Book Collection at the Folger

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Andres Alvarez-Davila

Andres Alvarez-Davila was a Dumbarton-Oaks intern at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2017-2018. One of Andres’ projects was to determine the scope of the Spanish book collection at Folger, which is, for the most part, only searchable in the card…

What is an Aesopian fable in the Renaissance? The case of the Renaissance Catwoman
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What is an Aesopian fable in the Renaissance? The case of the Renaissance Catwoman

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Liza Blake

A guest post by Liza Blake What is an Aesopian fable in the Renaissance? This post is about where our modern Aesopian fables come from, drawing on the Folger Shakespeare Library’s incredibly rich collections of animal fables. For more detail…

De Acupunctura: Willem ten Rhijne and Bringing Eastern Medicine to Europe
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De Acupunctura: Willem ten Rhijne and Bringing Eastern Medicine to Europe

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Abbie Weinberg

I am continually in awe of the depth and breadth of knowledge that our readers possess. Y’all are truly excellent. Yes, the answer to the Crocodile Mystery is, as several people answered, a chart of the acupuncture points on the…

Tracing the transmission of medical recipes
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Tracing the transmission of medical recipes

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Elisabeth Chaghafi

A guest post by Elisabeth Chaghafi A lot of early modern recipe books are eclectic compilations that reflect the interests or needs of the people who compiled them. Often they do not even separate between cookery and medical recipes but…

Minding the Gaps of Early Modern Drama
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Minding the Gaps of Early Modern Drama

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Heidi Craig

A Guest Post by Heidi Craig The history of early modern drama and theatre is punctured with gaps, unknowns, and absences. Over half of the estimated 3,000 professional plays performed before the closure of the theatres in 1642 have evaporated…

Hexed
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Hexed

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Elizabeth DeBold

This month’s crocodile post asked our readers to think about some interesting designs appearing in and on our books. The first, appearing on the covers of Folger STC 11011 copy 2, are two slightly different designs with a central shape…

The mystery of the Shakespearian cartoons
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The mystery of the Shakespearian cartoons

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Sarah Hovde

I first encountered this book three years ago, in 2015. Intrigued by its sparse catalog record, which at that point consisted of a cataloger-supplied title (“”), an estimated page count, and little more, I went down to the vault to…

Experiments with early modern manuscripts and computer-aided transcription
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Experiments with early modern manuscripts and computer-aided transcription

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Meaghan J. Brown Minyue Dai, Carrie Yang, and Reeve Ingle

Guest post by Minyue Dai, Carrie Yang, Reeve Ingle, and Meaghan J. Brown. Hundreds of years ago, scholars might spend hours in a library searching through thousands of pages to find a useful paragraph.Things get much easier when we can…

Happy 500th Birthday!
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Happy 500th Birthday!

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Abbie Weinberg

On a recent tour, I was showing a book published in 1518, and mentioned that clearly we were celebrating its 500th birthday by showing it off to a group of very appreciative folks. But that got me thinking—what other books…

About that frontispiece portrait of Hannah Woolley....
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About that frontispiece portrait of Hannah Woolley....

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Heather Wolfe

I was delighted by the range of responses we got for last week’s Crocodile post on the identity of the woman in the engraving: Catherine of Braganza, Cleopatra, Lady Frances Egerton, Elizabeth Nash nee Hall (Shakespeare’s grand-daughter), Hannah Woolley, and…

A "lost" drawing by Ellen Terry
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A "lost" drawing by Ellen Terry

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Erin Blake

Is it possible to lose something you never had? The other day I managed to “lose” a 1905 sketch of a theater interior by actress Ellen Terry (1847-1928). I had caught a glimpse of it when sorting through a small…

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