Exhibitions at the Folger: Difference between revisions

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===2010s===
===2010s===


====Folger exhibitions 2013-2014====
*[[Here Is a Play Fitted: Four Centuries of Staging Shakespeare]] (2013-2014)


*[[Here Is a Play Fitted: Four Centuries of Staging Shakespeare]]
*[[A Book Behind Bars: The Robben Island Shakespeare]] (2013)


*[[A Book Behind Bars: The Robben Island Shakespeare]]
*[[Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland]] (2013)


*[[Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland]]
*[[Very Like a Whale]] (2012-2013)


====Folger exhibitions 2012-2013====
*[[Open City: London, 1500-1700]] (2012)


*[[Very Like a Whale]]
*[[Shakespeare's Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500-1700]] (2012)


*[[Open City: London, 1500-1700]]
*[[Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible]] (2011-2012)


*[[Shakespeare's Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500-1700]]
*[[Fame, Fortune, & Theft: The Shakespeare First Folio]] (2011)


====Folger exhibitions 2011-2012====
*[[Behind Home Remedy: Women, Medicine, and Science]] (2011)


*[[Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible]]
*[[Vivat Rex!: 50th Anniversary of Henry VIII's Accession to the Throne]] (2010)


*[[Fame, Fortune, & Theft: The Shakespeare First Folio]]
*[[Lost at Sea: The Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550-1750]] (2010)


*[[Behind Home Remedy: Women, Medicine, and Science]]
*[[Extending the Book: the Art of Extra-Illustration]] (2010)
 
====Folger exhibitions 2010====
 
*[[Vivat Rex!: 50th Anniversary of Henry VIII's Accession to the Throne]]
 
*[[Lost at Sea: The Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550-1750]]
 
*[[Extending the Book: the Art of Extra-Illustration]]


===2000s===
===2000s===


====Folger exhibitions 2009-2010====
*[[Imagining China: the View from Europe, 1500-1700]] (2009-2010)
 
*[[Europeans in China: the View from Europe, 1500-1700]]
 
*[[The Curatorial Eye: Discoveries from the Folger Vault]]
 
*[[To Sleep, Perchance to Dream]]


====Folger exhibitions 2008-2009====
*[[The Curatorial Eye: Discoveries from the Folger Vault]] (2009)


*[[Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper]]
*[[To Sleep, Perchance to Dream]] (2009)


*[[Now Thrive the Armorers: Arms and Armor in Shakespeare]]
*[[Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper]] (2008-2009)


*[[History in the Making: How Early Modern Britain Reimagined its Past]]
*[[Now Thrive the Armorers: Arms and Armor in Shakespeare]] (2008)


====Folger exhibitions 2007-2008====
*[[History in the Making: How Early Modern Britain Reimagined its Past]] (2008)


*[[Marketing Shakespeare: the Boydell Gallery, 1789-1805, & Beyond]]
*[[Marketing Shakespeare: the Boydell Gallery, 1789-1805, & Beyond]] (2007-2008)


*[[Shakespeare in American Life]]
*[[Shakespeare in American Life]] (2007?)


====Folger exhibitions 2006-2007====
*[[Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print]] (2006-2007)


*[[Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print]]
*[[Noyses, Sounds, and Sweet Aires": Music in Early Modern England]] (2006)


*[[Noyses, Sounds, and Sweet Aires": Music in Early Modern England]]
*[[Golden Lads & Lasses: Shakespeare for Children]] (2006)


*[[Golden Lads & Lasses: Shakespeare for Children]]
*[[Consuming Splendor: Luxury Goods in England, 1580-1680]] (2005)


====Folger exhibitions 2005====
*[[David Garrick, 1717-1779: A Theatrical Life]] (2005)


*[[Consuming Splendor: Luxury Goods in England, 1580-1680]]
*[[Letterwriting in Renaissance England]] (2004-2005)


*[[David Garrick, 1717-1779: A Theatrical Life]]
*[[Voices for Tolerance in an Age of Persecution]] (2004)


====Folger exhibitions 2004-2005====
*[[Word & Image: The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608]] (2004)


*[[Letterwriting in Renaissance England]]
*[[Fakes, Forgeries & Facsimiles]] (2003-2004)


*[[Voices for Tolerance in an Age of Persecution]]
*[[ Elizabeth I: Then and Now]] (2003)


*[[Word & Image: The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608]]
*[[Thys Boke is Myne]] (2002-2003)


====Folger exhibitions 2003====
*[[A Shared Passion: Henry Clay Folger, Jr. and Emily Jordan Folger as Collectors]] (2002?)


*[[Fakes, Forgeries & Facsimiles]]
*[[The Pen's Excellencie]] (2002)


*[[ Elizabeth I: Then and Now]]
*[[The Reader Revealed]] (2001-2002)


====Folger exhibitions 2002-2003====
*[[Designer Bookbinders in North America]] (2002?)


*[[Thys Boke is Myne]]
*[[Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe]] (2000-2001)


*[[A Shared Passion]]
*[[A Decade of Collecting: Celebrating Ten Years of Acquisitions]] (2000)


*[[The Pen's Excellencie]]
*[[Fortune: All is But Fortune]] (2000)
 
====Folger exhibitions 2001-2002====
 
*[[The Reader Revealed]]
 
*[[Designer Bookbinders in North America]]
 
====Folger exhibitions 2000-2001====
 
*[[Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe]]
 
*[[A Decade of Collecting: Celebrating Ten Years of Acquisitions]]
 
*[[All is But Fortune]]


===1990s===
===1990s===
This is Eric's suggested format -- '''please note that the dates are not necessarily correct'''


*[[Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England]] (1999)
*[[Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England]] (1999)
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*[[Seeing What Shakespeare Means]] (1999)
*[[Seeing What Shakespeare Means]] (1999)


*[[Designs from Fancy: George Romney's Shakespearean Drawings]] (1999)
*[[Designs from Fancy: George Romney's Shakespearean Drawings]] (1998-1999)


*[[Papers and Porcelains: Two Recent Gift Collections]] (1998-99)
*[[Papers and Porcelains: Two Recent Gift Collections]] (1998)


*[[Mapping Early Modern Worlds]] (1998)
*[[Mapping Early Modern Worlds]] (1998)


*[[Housewife's Rich Cabinet: Remedies, Recipes, & Helpful Hints]] (1998)
*[[Housewife's Rich Cabinet: Remedies, Recipes, & Helpful Hints]] (1997-1998)


*[[Shakespeare's Unruly Women]] (1997)
*[[Shakespeare's Unruly Women]] (1997)


*[[Impressions of Wenceslaus Hollar]] (1996)
*[[Impressions of Wenceslaus Hollar]] (1996-1997)


*[[The Festive Renaissance: Illustrated Books from the Colt Collection]] (1996)
*[[The Festive Renaissance: Illustrated Books from the Colt Collection]] (1995-1996)


*[[Yesterday's News: Seventeenth-Century English Broadsides and Newsbooks]] (1995)
*[[Yesterday's News: Seventeenth-Century English Broadsides and Newsbooks]] (1995-1996)

Revision as of 15:56, 3 June 2014

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2010s

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