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"Depth of Field: New Dimensions in the Study of Early Modern Books" #mla19

June 1, 2018 Claire M. L. Bourne
The deep bite of type on the recto of the title page of  The Trial of Chivalry  (1605), STC 24935a, Folger Shakespeare Library.

The deep bite of type on the recto of the title page of The Trial of Chivalry (1605), STC 24935a, Folger Shakespeare Library.

It has been a while since I have posted anything here, but my writing energies have been directed towards #finishthedamnbook and drafting funding applications to support the next big thing. My other energies have been ricocheting in and around pedagogical spaces, where my students have taken, are taking, and will take what they have learned from the localized, intellectual communities we created together to forge new ideas, actions, pieces of writing, objects, &c, in new spaces with new communities, and so forth. I am endlessly inspired by these processes of collaboration and the way they have the power to cut through the solitary, individualistic, and self-serving imperatives that (still) define success in academia.

All this said, I was excited yesterday to learn that a roundtable proposal—about reading practices and bibliographic "depth"—that I helped put together on an airplane 30,000+ feet in the sky over America—in real-time collaboration with colleagues on the flat ground below (thanks, in-flight wifi!)—has been accepted for the Modern Language Association's convention in Chicago next January. The roundtable will put our literary reading practices (deep and surface) in conversation with the multi-dimensional, embodied, and experiential reading practices that we see as having been vital to early modern encounters with hand-press era books.

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In bibliography, book history, collaboration, conferences, mla, reading, typography Tags #mla19, #bookdepth
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Making Q1 Phylaster: Quartos in the Classroom (Redux)

October 16, 2016 Claire M. L. Bourne
Detail of  Phylaster  (1620), Malone 783, Bodleian Library

Detail of Phylaster (1620), Malone 783, Bodleian Library

Last year, I started reserving a day in each of my Shakespeare courses for students to "make" quartos. I wrote at some length (almost exactly a year ago) about the experience of making Q1 Hamlet with my students at VCU and posted instructions, information about supplies for the activity, and a link to the sheets (which I made from EEBO printouts).

This semester, I'm teaching a senior seminar called "Early Modern Drama: Manuscript, Print, Performance" that focuses on the material-textual processes that facilitated the making of theatrical performance and printed texts of the plays. So far, my students have reverse-engineered scribal backstage plots of Doctor Faustus, performed a scene from the same play using cue scripts, and "made" quartos.

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In book history, collaboration, pedagogy, playbooks, teaching w/ book history
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Shared Archives, New Methods: Book History and Theater History Across Media #shakeass17

June 1, 2016 Claire M. L. Bourne
Detail of Plays 2.1, Worcester College Library, Oxford

Detail of Plays 2.1, Worcester College Library, Oxford

Tara L. Lyons and I are excited to finally share the news that the trustees of the Shakespeare Association of America have accepted our panel Shared Archives, New Methods: Book History and Theater History Across Media for the organization's next annual meeting in Atlanta. The panel brings together book historians and theater historiansto explore new approaches of attending to an overlapping archive of materials related to the performance and publication of early modern plays. We're especially pleased that SAA is willing to let us experiment with format and mount a panel of short talks (±8 minutes each). We hope that these lightning papers will yield a lively and provocative conversation about materiality, method, and media.

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In conferences, collaboration, book history, theater history, saa Tags #shakeass17
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