The Collation

Research and Exploration at the Folger

Come Hither, Actors / Mentality

February 21, 2019 | By Guest Author

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 members of the “What Acting Is” seminar. Part one (Textuality) is here. Part two (Temporality) is here. Mentality “There is no subtext in Shakespeare,” said Akeem Davis.… Continue Reading

Come Hither, Actors / Temporality

February 19, 2019 | By Guest Author

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 members of the “What Acting Is” seminar. Part one (Textuality) is here. Temporality Theatre, we agreed at the outset, is the art of now.… Continue Reading

Come Hither, Actors / Textuality

February 14, 2019 | By Guest Author

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) The twelve members of the recently-concluded Folger Institute seminar “What Acting Is” worked together for ten weeks to develop an actor-centered criticism of Shakespeare.… Continue Reading

Untangling Lady Day dating and the Julian calendar

February 12, 2019 | By Erin Blake

Folger X.c.92 (3) is my new favorite manuscript: it’s a letter written in Paris that single-handedly demonstrates the fact that “new style” dates refer to two different calendar modernizations. One modernization has to do with the Christian calendar’s reckoning of “the year of our Lord.” The other relates to the Julian calendar having gradually become ten days behind the seasonal year thanks to its miscalculation that a leap year is needed every four years, no exceptions.… Continue Reading

And that’s IIIF to you, too

February 5, 2019 | By Meaghan J. Brown

Our Crocodile mystery last week showed some crocodile tears, but the exciting part is just below our sad reptile. This illustrated Italian ducal motto is from Symbola divina & Humana pontificum, imperatorum, regum, by Jacob Typot (Frankfurt, 1652)—and you can get up close to the image in the new Miranda platform. Those who study early modern materials—images, books, and manuscripts—often want to get a closer look at our digital images.… Continue Reading
Mirador comparing two Folger items