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Liza Blake
is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, and was a Long-Term Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library for 2018-19. With Kathryn Vomero Santos, she edited Arthur Golding's A Moral Fabletalk and Other Renaissance Fable Translations (Cambridge, MHRA, 2017). At the Folger, she worked on a multimedia monograph entitled "Choose Your Own Poems and Fancies: An Interactive Online Edition and Study of Margaret Cavendish's Atom Poems."
What is an Aesopian fable in the Renaissance? The case of the Renaissance Catwoman
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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…
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