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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

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.

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.

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.

There's the Short and the Long 'ſ/f'
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There's the Short and the Long 'ſ/f'

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KM Fikes

Artistic Fellow Krysten Fikes explores the long ‘s’ in the context of her project on Black American Ebonics and Elizabethan English.

Beyond a Cure for Plague
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Beyond a Cure for Plague

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Kathleen Miller

Fellow Kathleen Miller explores the Early Modern use of plague cures to treat more than one type of illness

Interview and excerpt: Jessica Goethals, Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court
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Interview and excerpt: Jessica Goethals, Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court

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Jessica Goethals

An interview with Dr. Jessica Goethals and an excerpt from her 2023 book Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court.

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