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Abner Aldarondo

is a recent graduate of Amherst College, where he studied Spanish and Latinx and Latin American studies. He was the 2022-23 Amherst Folger Humanities Fellow and works with the Folger's exhibition team.
A Game at Chess: Popularity and Controversy
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A Game at Chess: Popularity and Controversy

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Dumbarton Oaks fellow, Abner Aldarondo, discusses Thomas Middleton’s popular, but controversial play, A Game at Chess.

Printing plays in Mexico
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Printing plays in Mexico

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Dumbarton Oaks fellow Abner Aldarondo explores a book in the Folger Collection that gathers together six plays printed in Mexico City in the 1830s.

Collection Connections: ‘A Tip for the Hangman' by Allison Epstein
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Collection Connections: ‘A Tip for the Hangman' by Allison Epstein

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We revisit the March 2023 presentation by Abner Aldarondo about the ciphers and censorship related to  A Tip for the Hangman by Allison Epstein.

Censorship and the Valladolid Folio
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Censorship and the Valladolid Folio

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Why was this copy of the Second Folio so heavily redacted? Dumbarton Oaks fellow Abner Aldarondo explores the reasons.

A Master Tailor’s Manual
An image of a single page of a book with a small block of text on the left in Spanish and an image of three men, two sewing and one using a compass and a ruler.
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A Master Tailor’s Manual

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