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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

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.

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.

Two versions of Thomas Cromwell's very urgent letter conveying Henry VIII's impatience over his impending marriage to Anne of Cleves
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Two versions of Thomas Cromwell's very urgent letter conveying Henry VIII's impatience over his impending marriage to Anne of Cleves

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Heather Wolfe

A suggested solution to May’s Folger Mystery about two almost identical letters regarding Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne of Cleves in the Folger’s Collection.

Folger Mysteries (formerly known as "What manner o' thing is your crocodile"): May 2024
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Folger Mysteries (formerly known as "What manner o' thing is your crocodile"): May 2024

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The Collation

Try your hand at solving this month’s Folger Mystery.

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.

“The Problem of the Theatre”
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“The Problem of the Theatre”

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emma poltrack

A brief history of Folger Theatre.

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