Elizabethan Households (1995)

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Elizabethan Households, one of the Exhibitions at the Folger, opened on February 13, 1995 and closed on May 20, 1995. Curated by the Folger's Executive Director of the Folger Institute Lena Cowen Orlin, the exhibition aimed to open a fresh investigation of domestic life in Elizabethan England and to demonstrate some of the ways in which it is possible to pursue such an investigation using the Folger's collections.

Curation

From 1982 to 1996, Lena Cowen Orlin coordinated postdoctoral seminars and conferences at the Folger Shakespeare Library as Executive Director of the Folger Institute.

Contents of the Exhibition

Exhibition Highlights

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Gallery Layout

The exhibition took place in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Case 1: The Great Rebuilding

The period 1570 to 1640 has been called "The Great Rebuilding" because so many English men and women built new houses, added dining rooms and parlors to their great halls and bedchambers, and achieved new standards of doemstic comfort and luxury...[add the rest here].

Items Included

• Johann Amos Comenius. Orbis sensualium pictus...Visible world. Translated into English, by Charles Hoole. London: Printed for Charles Mearne, his Majesties bookseller at the Kings Arms at Charing-Cross, 1685. Folger C5525.
  • This little book for children...[add the rest here].

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Case 3: [Title here]

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Supplemental materials

• The book Elizabethan Households: An Anthology was published in conjunction with the exhibition.