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Laura Kolb

is Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College. This spring she is a short-term fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, where she is conducting research for a book on imaginative representations of debt and credit in Shakespeare's England. Part of this project has appeared in Shakespeare Studies, and a second article drawn from it is forthcoming in SEL.
The itemized life: John Kay’s notebook
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The itemized life: John Kay’s notebook

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Laura Kolb

Folger X.d.446, the notebook of John Kay, combines accounts and verses. Short-term fellow Laura Kolb argues that Kay’s book is noteworthy not because it combines these things, but because it does so with both care and a kind of inventiveness,…