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Folger Shakespeare Library Announces Winter Programming and Events for December 2024 through March 2025

Press release: December 10, 2024

Convivial Cleopatra
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Convivial Cleopatra

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Mira 'Assaf

An examination of Cleopatra’s racialized and sexualized queenship through the twinned theoretical frameworks of indigenous and queer conviviality

Welcome to the Banquet
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Welcome to the Banquet

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Douglas Clark

Fellow Douglas Clark delves into the contents of the previously overlooked manuscript, Thomas Grocer’s Banquet of Sweetmeats.

Race B4 Race 2024 Seminar 1: What We’re Reading and Why
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Race B4 Race 2024 Seminar 1: What We’re Reading and Why

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Kavita Mudan Finn

In a continuation of a series, a member of the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network discusses what they’re reading and thinking about in their monthly Reading Group.

Drinking with Shakespeare: Early Modern Tavern Tokens
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Drinking with Shakespeare: Early Modern Tavern Tokens

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Leah Hampton

Artistic Fellow Leah Hampton showcases the Folger’s collection of Early Modern bar tokens

Early Modern Piracy: A Matter of Perspective
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Early Modern Piracy: A Matter of Perspective

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Ania Upstill
Folger Deep Dives: Memory, marginalia, and the art of reading, V.b.32 and beyond
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Folger Deep Dives: Memory, marginalia, and the art of reading, V.b.32 and beyond

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Amy Cooper

Folger fellow Amy Cooper explores the relationship between memory and the doodles of faces, dragons, and people in the margins of books.

Making Meaning of Adapted Shakespeare: White Femininity in Re-Imaginings of Measure for Measure
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Making Meaning of Adapted Shakespeare: White Femininity in Re-Imaginings of Measure for Measure

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Vanessa I. Corredera

Fellow Vanessa Corredera examines the use of color in adaptations of Measure for Measure

The Meaning of Mining from Agricola to Zárate
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The Meaning of Mining from Agricola to Zárate

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Anita Raychawdhuri

Fellow Anita Raychawdhuri explores how mining was imagined in the Early Modern world by examining images and tales of colonial Peru.

A Tour of the Newly-Reopened Folger | Part 2
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A Tour of the Newly-Reopened Folger | Part 2

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We take a look at how research happens at the Folger, from Folger Institute fellowships to the chairs in our Reading Room.

Better than a Pound of Sorrow: Antidotes for Melancholy in Early Modern England
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Better than a Pound of Sorrow: Antidotes for Melancholy in Early Modern England

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Andrés Gattinoni

Fellow Andrés Gattinoni looks at Early Modern collections of music and jokes intended to cure melancholy.

A ‘declineing time’? The final illnesses of Constance and Elizabeth Lucy
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A ‘declineing time’? The final illnesses of Constance and Elizabeth Lucy

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Emma Marshall

Folger Fellow Emma Marshall explores the history of the women of the Lucy family.

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