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Faith Acker
spent a wonderful fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in the fall of 2019, and is currently a fellow at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library in New Haven, Connecticut, where she continues to research epitaphs on servants and tradesmen in English Renaissance poetry (1600-1660). Her monograph on the early readers of Shakespeare's sonnets is under contract with Routledge.
A guest post by Faith Acker I still remember the first rare book I handled in a library. It was Thomas Caldecott’s copy of the Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before imprinted (Thomas Thorpe, 1609) a beautiful quarto that Caldecott presented to…
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