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VIDEO: Wing Foundation Lecture on the History of the Book (Newberry Library)

June 16, 2022 Claire M. L. Bourne

I was honored to deliver the Wing Foundation Lecture on the History of the Book at the Newberry Library on March 3, 2022. The event took place in person after two years of virtual events. I’m grateful to Jill Gage, Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing, for the invitation to speak about some new ideas around my next book project, “Accidental Shakespeare,” and to the staff at the Newberry for supporting this program.

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In bibliography, book history, editing, libraries, pilcrows, reading, research, shakespeare, typography, lectures
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OUT NOW! Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England

June 16, 2022 Claire M. L. Bourne

My first monograph Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England was published by Oxford University Press in 2020.

It is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography and tells a new history of drama from the period by considering the page designs of plays by Shakespeare and others printed between the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century. It argues that typography, broadly conceived as the disposition of type on the page, was used creatively by printers, publishers, playwrights, and other agents of the book trade to make the effects of theatricality—from the most basic (textually articulating a change in speaker) to the more complex (registering the kinesis of bodies on stage—intelligible on the page.

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In bibliography, book history, pilcrows, reading, playbooks, special collections, writing
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¶ * ☞ ‽ ♡ ! ≫ #glyphsinthewild

April 15, 2016 Claire M. L. Bourne

As soon as I started researching the presence and function of symbolic type in early print, I started noticing the very same symbols in the world around me. Non-alphabetic and non-numeric characters are everywhere...

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In asterisks, pilcrows, typography, manicules, arrows, interrobangs Tags #glyphsinthewild
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Making Q1 Phylaster: Quartos in the Classroom (Redux)
October 16, 2016
book history, collaboration, pedagogy, playbooks, teaching w/ book history
Making Q1 Phylaster: Quartos in the Classroom (Redux)
October 16, 2016
book history, collaboration, pedagogy, playbooks, teaching w/ book history

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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October 16, 2016
book history, collaboration, pedagogy, playbooks, teaching w/ book history
Thoughts Towards an Essay: Typography is/as Pedagogy
January 21, 2016
book history, pedagogy, typography, pilcrows, reading
Thoughts Towards an Essay: Typography is/as Pedagogy
January 21, 2016
book history, pedagogy, typography, pilcrows, reading

This coming March, I'm participating in a seminar at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting called "Teaching Textual Studies in/through Shakespeare," organized by Sarah Nevill and Brett Hirsch. I considered writing about one of the assignment I designed for my Shakespeare course last term—making a quarto or adopt-a-book. I thought writing about them at some length would give me occasion to reflect on what worked well and what I need to tweak if I use them again. Both assignments were attempts to teach early modern textual histories at an institution that has special collections that skew sharply post-1900, so I thought I might also discuss these assignments in that context. 

But then I remembered a conversation I had with a few people on Twitter last year...

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January 21, 2016
book history, pedagogy, typography, pilcrows, reading
book history / bibliography / pedagogy / &c sessions at #mla16
December 22, 2015
conferences, mla, pedagogy, collaboration, book history, bibliography
book history / bibliography / pedagogy / &c sessions at #mla16
December 22, 2015
conferences, mla, pedagogy, collaboration, book history, bibliography

This January, I will be presenting a paper at the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention for the first time. It won't be my first time at MLA (I've been before for job interviews), but it will be my first time navigating the convention's extensive line-up of panels, roundtables, &c.

To that end, I've compiled a list of sessions that constellate around my interests in book history, bibliography, remediation, and pedagogy. This list is not designed to be comprehensive but rather to give others who might be interested in similar fields a starting point for their own #mla16 itineraries.

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December 22, 2015
conferences, mla, pedagogy, collaboration, book history, bibliography
 
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