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Dancing Skeletons and Human Hair: Remembrance, Memento Mori, and Material Culture
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Dancing Skeletons and Human Hair: Remembrance, Memento Mori, and Material Culture

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Catherine Elliott Tisdale

A guest post by Catherine Elliott Tisdale How do you remember loved ones who have passed away or family members who have scattered across the four winds? Today if we lose someone, we turn to photos, family films, emails, texts,…

What is Lost is Found Again: the Lost Plays Database
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What is Lost is Found Again: the Lost Plays Database

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Meaghan J. Brown

We had one answer right on the money for this July’s Crocodile Mystery—each of the images featured evidence of lost plays. The first image is a scrap from the Henslowe papers, recording a payment for John Day for the third…

"What manner o'thing is your crocodile?": July 2018
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"What manner o'thing is your crocodile?": July 2018

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The Collation

This month’s Crocodile Mystery is a group affair. Share your thoughts on what these items have in common in the comments section! (Answers of “on paper” or “beige,” although true, don’t count).

Written in the Margent: Frances Wolfreston Revealed
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Written in the Margent: Frances Wolfreston Revealed

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Sarah Lindenbaum

A guest post by Sarah Lindenbaum “And what obscured in this fair volume lies / Find written in the margent of his eyes” (Romeo and Juliet, 1.3.87–88) Recently, two Shakespeare quartos held by the Folger Shakespeare Library were determined to…

A Pamphlet War in England, 1641-1643
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A Pamphlet War in England, 1641-1643

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Brittney Washington

A guest post by Brittney Washington Since my time as the 2017-2018 Nadia Sophie Seiler Rare Materials Resident is quickly approaching an end, I’ve been taking some time to look back on what I’ve learned about the amazing collection here at…

Engraved to Sell
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Engraved to Sell

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

Printed ephemera can be exciting, especially when it reveals information that can be found nowhere else. When it is also a very rare piece with only a couple of extant copies recorded, and its design is intriguing, the discovery is…

On looking into Chapman's Homer once again
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On looking into Chapman's Homer once again

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Jessica Wolfe

A guest post by Jessica Wolfe If the name George Chapman rings a bell, it is likely because you once read John Keats’s 1816 sonnet, “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer,” which describes the Romantic poet’s experience of reading Chapman’s…

Proof print from the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
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Proof print from the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery

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Erin Blake

As a couple of you guessed correctly last week, the June Crocodile Mystery is a proof for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery print of Lady Macbeth illustrating Macbeth, act 1, scene 5.See the Collation post “Proof prints, part one” for more on the meaning of “proof”…

"What manner o’thing is your crocodile?": June 2018
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"What manner o’thing is your crocodile?": June 2018

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The Collation

This month’s Crocodile Mystery illustrates a scene from Shakespeare, but seems more suited to Sir John Suckling: “Why so pale and wan fond lover?” Share your thoughts on why it looks the way it does by leaving a reply in…

Polyglot Poetics: Transnational Early Modern Literature, part II
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Polyglot Poetics: Transnational Early Modern Literature, part II

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Nigel Smith

A guest post by Nigel Smith I believe I am writing a book about the early modern city as a site of literary activity: the constant factor during the notable and extreme transformations and disruptions that took place between c.…

The IIIF Community Comes to Washington
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The IIIF Community Comes to Washington

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The Collation

This week, we at the Folger welcome members of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) community to Washington for an annual conference together with our fellow hosts, the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress. The IIIF community is a profoundly…

Early modern head lice remedies; or, dealing with pediculosis, Renaissance-style
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Early modern head lice remedies; or, dealing with pediculosis, Renaissance-style

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Heather Wolfe

With assistance by Beth DeBold This post is dedicated to all those parents and caregivers who have gotten the dreaded phone call while at work: “your child has lice.” You have to drop everything and retrieve your child from school,…

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