The Collation
Research and Exploration at the Folger
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The Collation is a gathering of useful information and observations from Folger staff and researchers. Read more about this blog
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Marmalade boxes, Lenten fasts, and love
Heather Wolfe discovers the true intentions behind Jane Skipwith’s marmalade box
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Remembering Laetitia Yeandle, Curator of Manuscripts (1930-2024)
Heather Wolfe remembers Laetitia’s influence on scholars and staff, as a curator, paleographer, editor, and friend.
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Who Cares about Care?
Fellow Zachary Dorner explores how labor, medical care, and class interacted in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Puzzling Through a Stage Direction in Love’s Labor’s Lost
Fellow Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich explores what a stage direction about Blackamoors might mean.
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Our new digital collections site is here!
Announcing the launch of our new digital collections site!
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“To re-back, or not to re-back”
Book and Paper Conservator Rachel Bissonnette gives a look behind the scenes at the conservation work done on one of our collection’s books.
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Flamboyant Plants
Artistic Research Fellow Amy Reid explores the queer history and meaning of plants using the Folger collection in an audiovisual project.
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Surveying the Bird’s-Eye View
Fellow Mark Rosen explores the Folger’s collection from a bird’s-eye view.
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Mariam Rising: A Short Closet Play by Jay Eddy
Folger artistic fellow Jay Eddy presents a closet play combining early modern drama with current events.
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The Jew of Malta and Empire
Fellow Philip Goldfarb Styrt uses Marlowe’s play to examine how early modern drama portrayed the problems of empire.
Race B4 Race Seminar 4: What We’re Reading and Why
In the fourth 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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Of Actors, Playwrights, and Porcupines
Folger fellow Corinne Bayerl explores the bestiary deployed in polemics about theatre across Europe.