Folger Institute

An interview with Dr. Jessica Goethals and an excerpt from her 2023 book Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court.

Fellow Zachary Dorner explores how labor, medical care, and class interacted in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Fellow Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich explores what a stage direction about Blackamoors might mean.

Artistic Research Fellow Amy Reid explores the queer history and meaning of plants using the Folger collection in an audiovisual project.

Fellow Mark Rosen explores the Folger’s collection from a bird’s-eye view.

Folger artistic fellow Jay Eddy presents a closet play combining early modern drama with current events.

Fellow Philip Goldfarb Styrt uses Marlowe’s play to examine how early modern drama portrayed the problems of empire.

In the third 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.

Fellow Lauren Beck lays out her plans to use travel narratives to explore non-European perceptions of Spain in the early modern period.

In the second 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.

Artist Research Fellow Alexander D’Agostino uses ChatCPT to help imagine what the fourteen missing pages of a magical Folger manuscript could be like.

In the first of a new series, members of the Race Before Race Mentorship Network discuss what they’re reading and thinking about in their monthly Reading Group.