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An alter'd case: An annotated copy of The Roaring Girl
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An alter'd case: An annotated copy of The Roaring Girl

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Victoria Myers

A guest post by Victoria Myers The marks in the book The reason that I found the Folger Shakespeare Library’s copy of The Roaring Girl especially interesting is because it is completely marked up. Most of these marks are corrections…

An exercise in collaborative editing: Anthony Bagot's letters and Nathaniel Bacon's pirate depositions
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An exercise in collaborative editing: Anthony Bagot's letters and Nathaniel Bacon's pirate depositions

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Heather Wolfe

As part of their paleography training, my paleography students always spend a bit of each afternoon working in pairs on transcriptions. It gives them a break from being in the “spotlight” as we go around the room reading manuscripts line…