| Exhibition
The Shakespeare Gallery
Ongoing, Monday through Saturday 10am–5pm
Folger Great Hall
Explore the Folger through our visitor film, digitally leaf through a First Folio with our touchscreen kiosk, and explore our collection through copies of Infinite Variety.
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Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper
September 25, 2008–January 31, 2009 10am–5pm
Monday–Saturday
Folger Great Hall
Curators: Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey
Men and women in Renaissance England were addicted to news, whether from the battlefields of Europe, or the scandal-filled salons of its courtiers. This exhibition traces the development of the newspaper in England, from its origins in manuscript letters and imported 'corantos' in Shakespeare's England, to the introduction of daily newspapers, regional journals and specialist magazines around 1700, as well as the first stirrings of American journalism.
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