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Research and Exploration at the Folger

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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

Covering Esther, or What Happens When Renaissance Woman Esther Inglis Exchanges Her Brush and Pen for a Needle: Examining Embroidery Through Reproduction
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Covering Esther, or What Happens When Renaissance Woman Esther Inglis Exchanges Her Brush and Pen for a Needle: Examining Embroidery Through Reproduction

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Christy Gordon Baty and Erin Harvey Moody

A behind the scenes look at the creation of a reproduction of one of the embroidered bindings on display in Little Books, Big Gifts: The Artistry of Esther Inglis.

The ballad of the woodworm, or ‘reading’ holes in woodblocks
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The ballad of the woodworm, or ‘reading’ holes in woodblocks

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

This month’s Folger Mystery explores the reuse of a woodblock print as it was eaten away by worms.

Folger Mysteries: October 2024
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Folger Mysteries: October 2024

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The Collation

Spot the difference in this month’s Folger mystery!

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.

Unintentionally blank pages
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Unintentionally blank pages

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Erin Blake

In this solution to our September Folger Mystery, Erin Blake explains the reason for the blank pages in Folger STC 14933

Folger Mysteries: September 2024
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Folger Mysteries: September 2024

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The Collation

A new Folger Mystery

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

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