Folger Research

A few weeks ago, Clark recorded a reading of one of these short #earlymodern poems from our collection @FolgerLibrary!

Clark’s project aims to record, analyze, and share the poetic material by both recognized and unknown or anonymous writers in these texts. #FellowsFriday #poetry #poets

#FolgerFellow Douglas Clark (@disfordiscourse) is documenting the wealth of 16th & 17th c. English literary #manuscripts whose contents have not yet been explored in detail.

Visit vanessacorredera.com to learn more about her work!

She interrogates their usage of the canon, a longstanding tool of harm, to confront and redress the legacies and painful impact of domination. #FellowsFriday

#FolgerFellow Vanessa Corredera’s (@vicorredera) in-progress 2nd monograph examines Shakespearean adaptations, appropriations, and performances created by Black Indigenous People of Color.

#FolgerFellow Emma Marshall (@earlymodernemma), a historian @YorkHistoryDept, examines recipe books to learn about health/wellbeing, family, emotions, and class. Her recent PhD explored experiences of illness and care in English gentry families, c.1630-1750. #FellowsFriday

Looking forward to talking (online) about my new book Female Servants in Early Modern England with @TheNACBS in conversation with Prof Julie Hardwick @DrJulieHardwick and Prof Steve Hindle. Join us! Sign up below👇 📆 Thurs 30 May ⏰9am PT/noon EDT/5pm BST nacbs.org/event-details/…

Congratulations to one of our 2023-24 #FolgerInstitute Fellows!

Tune in on Zoom or @librarycongress on May 2 for a talk by current #FolgerFellow Lauren Beck-- "Extractive Place Naming Practices in Early Modern North America." Registration and more info: bit.ly/3wcxZ1k

Join us in person or live on YouTube on April 27 @FolgerLibrary for the annual #Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture! #FolgerInstitute Director Patricia Akhimie (@pakhimie) will present "The Goodness of the Night: Editing 'Othello.'" Learn more bit.ly/3Jpcopt

By the late 17th c. enslaved people outnumbered English at most tropical sites in the E & W Indies. For this #FellowsFriday Justin Roberts (@KUHitsoryDept) uses a new geographical framework- the tropical empire- to explore the role of slavery in expanding the early British empire

Charles Williams, 'Theatrical Jealousy; or, the rival queens of Covent Garden', 1816 (London: J. Sidebotham) luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s…

In her project “Training and Trading” Dr. James considers how the extensive network of migratory professionals that fueled the British and Irish stages, as well as the dynastic stage families, oversaw this change.

#FolgerInstitute fellow @CoraCJames explores 18thcentury theatre’s expansion from a tightly controlled duopoly to a nationally enjoyed pastime #FellowsFriday

@VTenglish @FolgerLibrary, Dr. Ng will consider representations such as Ben Jonson’s allusion to Bantam and John Dryden’s play set in Amboyna, Indonesia.

Long-term #FolgerFellow Su Fang Ng (@VTenglish), in her project “Brokering with Caliban,” examines how East India Company trade diplomacy shaped dramatic representation of English relations with the East Indies.

In 1682 the ambassadors of the Sultan of Bantam, Java, to London, England, attended a performance of the operatic “Tempest.” #FellowsFriday

This project will upon an otherwise sovereign tongue, interchangeably utter American Ebonics & Elizabethan English, to constructively challenge our notions of 'correct' speech. Learn more: kmfikes.wixsite.com/-kmf

What is Elizabonics? Fellow KM Fikes (@H2Omeoncholy) is creating a phantom dialect for her project “A Moft High Cotton Epic Poem In III Groovements Or A Moft High Cotton Trilogy (An Elizabonic Hypothefis)” #FellowsFriday