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“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: March 2019
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“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: March 2019

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For the Crocodile of the month, we ask you to look at the title page (ignore the beautiful ink blot by the imprint) and colophon of this book in relation to its call number STC 4811. Is there something a…

Come Hither, Actors / Physicality
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Come Hither, Actors / Physicality

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What Acting Is (seminar)

A guest post by Barbara Bono, Arlynda Boyer, Eric Brinkman, Musa Gurnis, Maria S. Horne, Emily MacLeod, Deborah Payne, Melanie Rio, Joseph Roach, Kirara Sato, Katherine Schaap Williams, and Gretchen York The fourth and final part of the blog post…

Come Hither, Actors / Mentality
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Come Hither, Actors / Mentality

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What Acting Is (seminar)

A guest post by Barbara Bono, Arlynda Boyer, Eric Brinkman, Musa Gurnis, Maria S. Horne, Emily MacLeod, Deborah Payne, Melanie Rio, Joseph Roach, Kirara Sato, Katherine Schaap Williams, and Gretchen York Part three of the blog post written by the…

Come Hither, Actors / Temporality
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Come Hither, Actors / Temporality

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What Acting Is (seminar)

A guest post by Barbara Bono, Arlynda Boyer, Eric Brinkman, Musa Gurnis, Maria S. Horne, Emily MacLeod, Deborah Payne, Melanie Rio, Joseph Roach, Kirara Sato, Katherine Schaap Williams, and Gretchen York Part two of the blog post written by the…

Come Hither, Actors / Textuality
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Come Hither, Actors / Textuality

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What Acting Is (seminar)

A guest post by Barbara Bono, Arlynda Boyer, Eric Brinkman, Musa Gurnis, Maria S. Horne, Emily MacLeod, Deborah Payne, Melanie Rio, Joseph Roach, Kirara Sato, Katherine Schaap Williams, and Gretchen York The actors are come hither, my lord. (Hamlet, 2.2.416)…

Untangling Lady Day dating and the Julian calendar
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Untangling Lady Day dating and the Julian calendar

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Erin Blake

Folger X.c.92 (3) is my new favorite manuscript: it’s a letter written in Paris that single-handedly demonstrates the fact that “new style” dates refer to two different calendar modernizations. One modernization has to do with the Christian calendar’s reckoning of…

And that's IIIF to you, too
Mirador comparing two Folger items
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And that's IIIF to you, too

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Meaghan J. Brown

Our Crocodile mystery last week showed some crocodile tears, but the exciting part is just below our sad reptile. This illustrated Italian ducal motto is from Symbola divina & Humana pontificum, imperatorum, regum, by Jacob Typot (Frankfurt, 1652)—and you can get…

"What manner o'thing is your crocodile?": February 2019
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"What manner o'thing is your crocodile?": February 2019

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In February, our crocodile mystery involves a few real crocodile tears. For this month’s mystery, we ask you look at the image below and let us know if you can guess what the symbols mean for the future of this…

The Mapper and the Rambler
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The Mapper and the Rambler

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Isaac Stephens

A guest post by Isaac Stephens Are you a person who makes sure to have all your proverbial ducks in a row, everything meticulously planned out before you engage in a project, make your goals a reality, or depart on…

Theatrical Bills and Receipts
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Theatrical Bills and Receipts

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Abbie Weinberg

Folger manuscripts W.b.110 and W.b.111 are an oddly mis-matched pair. W.b.110 is nearly 46cm tall (almost 18 inches, for those playing along at home) and nearly 160 leaves, while W.b.111 is a good 10cm shorter and about a third the…

Folger collections in times of war
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Folger collections in times of war

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Elizabeth DeBold

As you guessed, the image from last week’s Crocodile Post is a hand-drawn plan for a vault. This particular one was intended to store the Folger’s rare books during World War II. The hand-drawn plan is the work of Stanley…

"What manner o'thing is your crocodile?": January 2019
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"What manner o'thing is your crocodile?": January 2019

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For this month’s croc post, please give us your thoughts on what’s going on in this drawing here. We’ll be back next week with the full story!

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