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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)…

Announcement: 2018-2019 Long-term Fellows
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Announcement: 2018-2019 Long-term Fellows

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Amanda Herbert Meredith Deeley

The Folger Institute is pleased to announce our 2018-2019 cohort of Long-term Fellows. This year we will welcome seven long-term scholars to the Folger: Patricia Akhimie, Liza Blake, Heidi Craig, Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto, Douglas M. Lanier, Simon Newman, and Isaac…

Report from the field: network analysis
Max Schich presenting at the EMDA institute
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Report from the field: network analysis

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Ruth Ahnert

A guest post by Dr. Ruth Ahnert In July 2017 the Folger Institute welcomed participants and faculty to the third of its Early Modern Digital Agendas (EMDA) gatherings—an NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. The EMDA institutes…

Thomas Nashe: A dominant literary voice in Elizabethan England
Thomas Nashe
Shakespeare and Beyond

Thomas Nashe: A dominant literary voice in Elizabethan England

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Andrew Hadfield Jennifer Richards

We are used to thinking of Elizabethan (and Jacobean) literature with Shakespeare at the center, but evidence suggests that, although Shakespeare was considered an important writer in the last decade of the queen’s reign, Thomas Nashe was one of the…

Shining a light on the other playwrights of Shakespeare's day
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Shining a light on the other playwrights of Shakespeare's day

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Esther Ferington

A Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama (EMED, for short) is a large, searchable digital resource on the hundreds of commercial plays by the other authors of Shakespeare’s time—including dozens of newly edited play texts.

Announcement: 2017-2018 Long-Term Fellows
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Announcement: 2017-2018 Long-Term Fellows

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Amanda Herbert

The Folger Institute is pleased to announce our 2017-18 cohort of Long-Term Fellows. This year we will welcome seven long-term scholars to the Folger: James Bromley, Urvashi Chakravarty, Surekha Davies, Nicholas Popper, Nigel Smith, Julianne Werlin, and Jessica Wolfe. The…

What happens when actors, musicians, and scholars collaborate on a Restoration Shakespeare play
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What happens when actors, musicians, and scholars collaborate on a Restoration Shakespeare play

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Richard Schoch

Participants watch as directors Amanda Eubanks Winkler and Richard Schoch give preliminary stagings to the actors and dancers, for Gildon’s 1700 adaptation of “Measure for Measure.” Part of the November 2014 Folger Institute weekend workshop, “Performing Restoration Shakespeare.” Part of…

Q & A: Amanda Herbert, Assistant Director for Fellowships Program, Folger Institute
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Q & A: Amanda Herbert, Assistant Director for Fellowships Program, Folger Institute

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The Collation

Amanda Herbert recently became an Assistant Director at the Folger Institute, where she directs each aspect of the Folger fellowships program, from managing the applications process to fostering a sense of scholarly community. As part of the Folger Institute team,…

The Amherst-Folger Fellows
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The Amherst-Folger Fellows

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Owen Williams

As readers of The Collation know, the Folger welcomes scholars on fellowship, Folger Institute program participants, and individual readers to our reading rooms. But what our readers may not know is that each January, we open our doors to a…

Peeking behind the locked door
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Peeking behind the locked door

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Kathleen Lynch

Another sede vacante has come and gone. With the wall-to-wall coverage of contemporary media, this one made witnesses of us all. Or at least, the coverage let us witness the events outside the conclave and to share our speculation about…

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