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Research Bulletin
With the turn of the new year, the Folger’s renovation project has begun. The Institute turns immediately to meeting the challenge of fostering agenda-setting scholarship in new circumstances. To help guide decisions, we’ve restated our mission and composed a statement of values for the website. Early program experiments include setting the cohort of 2019-20 long-term fellows to work in other collections or back home to write. Participants sponsored by the Institute consortium are joining Scott Manning Stevens’ graduate semester seminar on Early Modern Iroquoia at Syracuse University. Many more conversations and plans are underway for programs and events as early as this semester. Stay tuned to the Research Bulletin for news and announcements from within the Institute and around the Folger. In the meantime, don’t forget to consult our colleagues for reference advice. Finally, we would love to hear from you at #FolgerTea, every Thursday at 3 pm.
Kathleen Lynch
Executive Director, Folger Institute
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Scholars will have the opportunity to investigate the physical means of knowledge production at a “hands-on” paleography and hand-press printing course to be held at Texas A&M University, led by Margaret J.M. Ezell, Kevin M. O’Sullivan, and Heather Wolfe. Apply by 3 March.
Looking for some freshly brewed conversation? Follow @FolgerResearch on Twitter and join us every Thursday at 3pm EST for #FolgerTea! Reply to our live thread with a picture of what you are drinking and an update on what you are reading, writing, plotting for your current research project!
Early career graduate students who want to deepen their primary source literacy will enjoy a week with scholars and curators at the early June skills course, “An Orientation to Research Methods and Agendas” at Pennsylvania State University, led by Marcy North, Claire M. L. Bourne, and Whitney Trettien. Apply by 3 March.
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Shakespeare in the World
This summer, catch A Midsummer Night's Dream at
Shakespeare’s
Playhouse, the National Building Museum’s 2020 block party. NBM
will fill its atrium with an Elizabethan-inspired stage, games, activities,
teacher workshops, and more, in partnership with the Folger and the University
of South Carolina. #FolgerOnTheRoad
How did Shakespeare's plays go from popular entertainment to universal American classroom staple? On a recent episode of the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast, scholar Joseph Haughey explores Shakespeare's sizable role in the evolution of the English curriculum in American schools. Listen to the episode or read the transcript below!
News from Folger Scholars
In 1608, famine plagued England. Pastors and playwrights alike used the power of the written word to respond. In this recent post of Shakespeare & Beyond, former short-term Before 'Farm to Table' fellow Lauren Shook explores famine and food hoarding in Coriolanus.
In Subjects of Advice, Ivan Lupić uncovers the rich interconnectedness of dramatic art and the culture of counsel in the early modern period. Read the latest monograph published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library, part of an ongoing partnership.
“Wild Things” is a new monthly series on Shakespeare & Beyond that explores the relationship between humans and animals in early modern life and culture. Each month Folger Institute staffer Haylie Swenson will focus on a particular creature. Read this month's post about rats and mice!
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Research Bulletin Editor: Jonathan MacDonald, Project Coordinator, Folger Institute
Assistant Editor: Julia Fine, Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellow
Image Credits: Jan van der Straet, “Nova reperta,” ca. 1600, ART Vol. F81 no.19; Teacup
and bell at Folger Tea, photo by Elman
Studio/Folger Shakespeare Library; Jan Collaert, “Lapis polaris, magnes,” ca.
1591, ART Vol. f81 no.2; “The New Testament of Iesus Christ faithfully
translated into English…” 1633, STC 2946; Great Hall of the National Building
Museum, photo by Kevin Allen; Child reading Folger edition of Romeo at
Juliet, photo by Lloyd Wolf photography/Folger Shakespeare Library; Cyrus Cuneo, “Coriolanus at the
Lyceum,” 1901, ART Box C972 no.1 (size XL); Front cover of Ivan Lupic, Subjects
of Advice: Drama and Counsel from More to Shakespeare, University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2019; Jacob Cats, “Proteus ofte Minne-beelden verandert in
Sinne-beelden door,” 1627, STC 4863.5.