The students in my Shakespeare in Context course have just embarked on Part 3 of their semester-long Adopt-A-Book Assignment. This third—and final—installment asks them to engage with a very short passage of the playtext as it appears in their adopted edition and in the relevant Folger Shakespeare Library edition we've been using in class. This part of the assignment builds off of Part 1 and Part 2, which invited students to describe the material features of their adopted book before contextualizing one of those features via original research.
Read moreTRANSCRIBATHON! #transcribeVCU #folgerEMMO
I will be celebrating VCU's very good luck this Friday the 13th when the Folger Shakespeare Library's Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO) project team visits Richmond to lead a transcribathon for faculty, students, staff, representatives from local institutions, and interested members of the general public.
Read moreSheets & Other Supplies for Making Q1 Hamlet
Last week, I posted an account of making Q1 Hamlet quartos with my Shakespeare students. You can find a pdf of the sheets I made for this activity here.* To produce these sheets, I used the good old fashioned technique of cutting up EEBO printouts and taping them back together.
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