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Defining Beauty in Text and Image in the late Seventeenth-Century
A black and white engraving of the same portrait. Beneath the portrait is the text Barbara Duchess of Cleveland.
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Defining Beauty in Text and Image in the late Seventeenth-Century

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Jean Marie Christensen

Fellow Jean Marie Christensen explores beauty standards of the 17th century.

Medicinal Plants, Colonial Weeds, and Biodiversity Loss
A painted page showing an illustration of a plant and a description of it sits underneath sketches and beside a tablet showing an image of the original page of the book the painting is references
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Medicinal Plants, Colonial Weeds, and Biodiversity Loss

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Suzette Marie Martin

Herbarius: A New Herbal for the Anthropocene, by 2024-25 artist research fellow Suzette Marie Martin, is a “deconstructed manuscript” series of paintings that traces the intercontinental dispersal of non-native plant species through formerly valued medicinal herbs, now despised as weeds.

Semantics: Ars Minor or Ars Major?
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Semantics: Ars Minor or Ars Major?

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Layla Zeitouni

Fellow Layla Zeitouni explains how the Term “Major” Allowed the Gutenberg Bible to Supersede the Donatus

Deep Dive into Gorakh Dhanda or what Partington thought of Indian Shakespeare in 1913
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Deep Dive into Gorakh Dhanda or what Partington thought of Indian Shakespeare in 1913

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Anandi Rao

Fellow Anandi Rao takes a close look at a copy of an Urdu translation of The Comedy of Errors.

Finding Beulah
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Finding Beulah

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Sara Pennell

Fellow Sara Pennell hunts down the former owner of one the Folger’s many recipe books.

C. Walter Hodges and Reconstructed Shakespearean Theatres
A colored illustration of a wooden theatre with a blue ceiling, pinkish stage and flooring. There are figures on the stage and standing in front of it at the ground level.
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C. Walter Hodges and Reconstructed Shakespearean Theatres

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Alex Baines

Fellow Alex Baines looks at the drawings of C. Walter Hodges and how they continue to impact how we imagine the Globe Theatre

They Lied then, They Lie Now: A Native Perspective on Columbus and Current Events
A scanned opening of a book with highlighted passages in yellow and red with text annotations in red, black, and blue
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They Lied then, They Lie Now: A Native Perspective on Columbus and Current Events

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Mercedes Annaís Estévez Cruz
Or else I’m a Jew | a series of abstractions
A colored sketch showing a segmented circular object with a fiery halo descending into blue and yellow rings
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Or else I’m a Jew | a series of abstractions

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Casey Carsel

Artistic fellow Casey Carsel shares their process designing textile works in response to questions about the Early Modern Jewish experience

Discovering Paolo Bozi’s Rappresentatione Del Giudicio Vniuersale
The frontispiece of the book showing the title and author above a decorative image
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Discovering Paolo Bozi’s Rappresentatione Del Giudicio Vniuersale

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Ianick Takaes

Folger Fellow Ianick Takaes explores an early modern staging of heaven and hell.

The Curious Papers of the Curious Dr. Stukeley
An opening of book with an image stretched across showing two men on either side of a target shaped like a shield. One man holds a bow and one holds a hat. A fragment of printed text about archery can be seen right below the image.
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The Curious Papers of the Curious Dr. Stukeley

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Andrés Gattinoni

A look at items in the Folger collection belonging to William Stukeley, an antiquarian with an interest in Robin Hood

Sweet Blood: A Play in Progress
A black and white map with many labels and a list of parishes in the lower left corner
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Sweet Blood: A Play in Progress

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Camille Simone Thomas

Artistic Fellow Camille Thomas shares how research at the Folger helps inform her play, Sweet Blood.

Even them?! Loving the neighbour in Shakespeare and early modern England
A black and white drawing of a woman looking over her shoulder a man leaning in towards her, his hat on the ground by his feet
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Even them?! Loving the neighbour in Shakespeare and early modern England

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Roberta Kwan

Fellow Roberta Kwan discusses Shakespeare and loving thy neighbor

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