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Learning to Weep: Early Modern Readers Reading Saint Peters Complaint (1595)
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Learning to Weep: Early Modern Readers Reading Saint Peters Complaint (1595)

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Clarissa Chenovick

A guest post by Clarissa Chenovick Devotional weeping was serious business in early modern England. In an impressive array of bestselling print sermons and spiritual treatises, preachers and writers of varied religious persuasions exhort their hearers and readers to weep,…

2019-2020 Folger Fellows
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2019-2020 Folger Fellows

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Leah Thomas

The Folger Institute is pleased to announce our 2019-2020 cohort of Fellows. This year we will welcome forty-four Fellows to the Folger, including five long-term scholars: Clarissa Chenovick, John Kuhn, Kathleen Long, Anna More, and Seth Stewart Williams. In anticipation…

Launching Global Environmental History: Dr. Thomas Short on Air and Diseases in 1749
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Launching Global Environmental History: Dr. Thomas Short on Air and Diseases in 1749

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Ruma Chopra

A guest post by Ruma Chopra It took the English doctor Thomas Short eighteen years to publish his nearly 1000-page assessment of the relationship between climates and diseases. Published in 1749, his two-volume history, A general chronological history of the…

All the world and half a dozen lemons
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All the world and half a dozen lemons

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Lauren Working

A guest post by Lauren Working Letter from Thomas Wood to Richard Bagot, 10 October 1576, Folger MS L.a.987 (click for zoomable version) Thomas Wood’s 1576 letter to Richard Bagot begins conventionally enough. Wood was sending some artichoke “slips” with…

A Wild and Woolley Week
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A Wild and Woolley Week

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Before 'Farm to Table' team

A guest post by the Before ‘Farm to Table’ team This week the Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures team turned their collective attention to Hannah Woolley (or Wolley), a British woman writer who was among the…

“Run away”: a life in 78 words
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“Run away”: a life in 78 words

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Simon P. Newman

A guest post by Simon Newman His name was Quoshey , an Akan day name that tells us he was quite likely born on a Sunday on the Gold Coast of West Africa. But on Christmas Day 1700 Quashey was…

One page, four inscriptions, three households
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One page, four inscriptions, three households

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Rebecca Laroche

A guest post by Rebecca Laroche I began transcribing Folger manuscript V.a.681 because I recognized from the dealer’s description the name of a family, the Shirleys, and its house, Staunton Harold; I had previously found another book owned by another…

Accounting for Relationships: the Drury Lane Financial Records
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Accounting for Relationships: the Drury Lane Financial Records

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Chelsea Phillips

A guest post by Chelsea Phillips With the cherry trees blooming (almost), the sun shining (sometimes), and tax season looming, there is no more delightful time to consider the vagaries of 18th-century theatrical accounting practice. The Folger Shakespeare Library holds…

The Mapper and the Rambler
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The Mapper and the Rambler

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Isaac Stephens

A guest post by Isaac Stephens Are you a person who makes sure to have all your proverbial ducks in a row, everything meticulously planned out before you engage in a project, make your goals a reality, or depart on…

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…

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…

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…

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