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...from different generations of the family: the first contains letters from William Booth (b. 1602) to his brother, John Booth (1584-1659), and the second comp ...ca. 1676-ca. 1680, including notes from an early manuscript version of Sir William Petty's Political Arithmetick; proposals for reducing smuggling and notes o

==Cryptography in Shakespeare's Time== In addition to leaving secret codes in Shakespeare's plays (a theory that has proven unfounded), famous politician Sir Francis B

...or of manuscript materials, most recently of ''Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works'' (Washington Square Press, 2004). In the long course of preparing his monu '''William Quinn,''' Professor of English at the University of Arkansas 

...f the selected participants' own research interests, but will include such works as Hamlet and Othello along with Montaigne's ''Essais'', Spenser's ''Faerie ...atherine Lutz (Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); William I. Miller (Law, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor); Zirka Z. Filipczak (A

...erials, as well as some personnel, including the Library's first director, William Adams Slade, second director [[Joseph Quincy Adams]] and one of the founder | 2 || William Shakespeare Janssen Portrait 1610 || || || || ||

''This article is related to the exhibition. For other uses, see [[Shakespeare's Sisters (disambiguation)]].'' ...contain good biographical introductions. Though there are many excellent works in other languages, this list focuses on books in English for purposes of a

:“Clarendon Edition of the Works of Fulke Greville” [[William Hauptman]], Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland

...ey early drafts, acting versions, versions used while touring, or separate works? The earliest versions of the plays in this exhibition—[[Othello|''Othell * William Shakespeare. ''An excellent conceited tragedie of Romeo and Juliet''. Londo

* Samuel Purchas. ''Purchas his pilgrimes''. London: William Stansby, 1625. Call number: [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebreco ...as relates to trade and navigation''. London: for James and John Knapton, William and John Innys; John Darby; etc., 1728. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.

::—William F. Friedman, "Saying it in Cipher" (1920) ...Friedmans quickly lost faith in this theory and moved to Washington, where William ran the Signals Intelligence Service and Elizebeth worked for the Coast Gua

*Bliss, Lee, ed. William Shakespeare. ''Coriolanus''. New Cambridge Series. Cambridge University Pre *[[Alan C. Dessen|Dessen, Alan]]. ''Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary''. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Call number: [ht

: Kerwin, William. “Medea's traces: Women Practitioners in History and Drama.” In ''Beyon ...teenth-Century Women’s Recipe Books: Cooking, Physic and Chirurgery in the Works of Elizabeth Talbot Grey and Aletheia Talbot Howard'', edited by Betty S. T

...raphy is lost as a subject of serious inquiry. On the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth, the Folger Institute Center for Shakespeare Studies ...lkwyk]] (Queen Mary University of London and University of Warwick), and [[William H. Sherman]] (University of York)

...r widowhood, Wroth bore two children, Katherine and William, to her cousin William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, with whom she had been involved for some tim ...th also had a loose connection to Marriott and Grismand through her cousin William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke. Herbert patronized poet and satirist George

...Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He works on early modern literature, history, and culture, with particular interests ...fessor of Ancient and Modern Literature at Princeton University. His major works include ''Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon'' (2010) and ''Literature and Revol

This article lists and gives an orientation to the works of art on display in the reading rooms at the [[Folger Shakespeare Library] ...t gallery in Britain, and the first to sell high-quality engravings of its works, the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery’s influence on perceptions of Shakespear

:[[Derek Hirst]] is William Eliot Smith Professor of History. He is the author of ''Representative of t ...a lecture by [[Edward W. Soja]] (UCLA), and includes invited discussants [[William Egginton]] (the Johns Hopkins University), [[Margaret Greer]] (Duke Univers

...contents of a writer's library often reveals source material behind famous works. Authorial inscriptions in books may tell us about personal relationships a ..., 7.1). Such distinctive markings help to establish authorship of unsigned works and offer the evidence needed to confirm provenance.

Curated by Mary Anne Caton, ''Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England'' was part of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]] and ran from Septem ...ncrease their yield. Revived interest in classical as well as contemporary works on farming was strong among rural gentry who sought not only to improve the

...Paula McDowell]], [[Ann Moss]], [[Annabel Patterson]], [[Joad Raymond]], [[William H. Sherman]], [[Peter Stallybrass]], and [[Steven Zwicker]]. ...93, 1998). He is the General Editor of the Folger Library edition of the ''Works of Richard Hooker'' and coeditor of ''TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of