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.

Thoughts Towards an Essay: Typography is/as Pedagogy

January 21, 2016 Claire M. L. Bourne

Detail of The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark (1676), Horace Howard Furness Memorial Shakespeare Library, University of Pennsylvania, PR2807 A1 1676b. — Detail of *The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark* (1676), Horace Howard Furness Memorial Shakespeare Library, University of Pennsylvania, PR2807 A1 1676b.

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...

book history / bibliography / pedagogy / &c sessions at #mla16

December 22, 2015 Claire M. L. Bourne

Detail of John Dryden, ALL FOR LOVE (1678), D2229 (Copy 4), Folger Shakespeare Library.

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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