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Johns Hopkins University Press Blog First Folio, the book that gave us Shakespeare: On tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2016 jackholmesjr 2 months ago Categories: American Studies, Biography, Book talks, Libraries, Literature, Shakespeare Tags: First Folio Tour, Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Guest post by Stephen H.Grant Johns Hopkins University Press released Collecting Shakespeare: The …
Johns Hopkins University Press Blog Fifty Folger gigs in 18 months jackholmesjr 7 months ago Categories: American History, Libraries, Literature, Shakespeare, Washington Tags: Folger Shakespeare Library, Henry and Emily Folger Guest post by Stephen H. Grant Authors are blessed when their books are published on important anniversaries. Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger …
Johns Hopkins University Press Blog Meet us in San Francisco: American Political Science Association jackholmesjr 8 months ago Categories: American Studies, Conferences, Current Affairs, Foreign Policy, Journals, Politics, Washington Tags: American Political Scinece Assiciation, APSA 2015, Democracy Studies, international relations If you are heading to San Francisco for the APSA annual meeting, be sure to stop …
Johns Hopkins University Press Blog Happy Birthday, Henry Clay Folger! jackholmesjr 10 months ago Categories: Biography, D.C., Libraries, Literature, Shakespeare, Washington Tags: Amherst College, bibliophile, Folder Shakespeare Library, Henry Clay Folger Guest post by Stephen H. Grant Here are three things to remember about Henry Clay Folger on his 158th birthday, June 18, 2015. One. The …
Johns Hopkins University Press Blog Happy birthday, Emily Jordan Folger jackholmesjr 12 months ago Categories: American History, Biography, Libraries, Shakespeare, Washington, Women’s History Tags: Emily Jordan Folger, Folger Shakespeare Library Guest post by Stephen H. Grant Emily Jordan was born in Ironton, Ohio on May 15, 1858. Following her two older sisters to Vassar College, she …
Johns Hopkins University Press Blog Henry Clay Folger’s Greatest Honor jackholmesjr 2 years ago Categories: American History, Biography, D.C., Literature, Press Events, Shakespeare Tags: Amherst College, Folger Shakespeare Library, Henry and Emily Folger, William Shakespeare Guest post by Stephen H. Grant A century ago, in 1914, Henry Folger received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Amherst …
Johns Hopkins University Press Blog May means History of Medicine, the Natural World of DC (via Ottawa), and more on the Press Calendar jackholmesjr 2 years ago Categories: Book talks, Conferences, History of Medicine, Press Events, Shakespeare, Washington Tags: Calendar, Events, Folger Library, History of medicine, National Archives, Ottawa, Shakespeake, Washington DC Was it the Bard …
Guest post by Stephen H.Grant Johns Hopkins University Press released Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger on the Ides of March in 2014, the 450th anniversary of the Bard’s birth. In 2016, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the most famous and valuable Shakespeare volume––the 1623 First Folio––is on tour to all…
Guest post by Stephen H.Grant Johns Hopkins University Press released Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger on the Ides of March in 2014, the 450th anniversary of the Bard’s birth. In 2016, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the most famous and valuable Shakespeare volume––the 1623 First Folio––is on tour to all…
Guest post by Stephen H. Grant Authors are blessed when their books are published on important anniversaries. Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger hit the stands in the spring of 2014, coinciding with the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth in 1564. After the Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated in 1932, four decades…