Dr Jason Scott-Warren suggests that the handwriting on a Shakespeare First Folio in Philadelphia matches that of the ‘Paradise Lost’ poet, John Milton, September 2019

Scholars believe that they have identified John Milton’s copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare. This copy of the first large-format (folio) edition of Shakespeare’s plays, published in 1623, has been housed in the Free Library of Philadelphia since 1944, when it was donated to the library by the Widener family. It has been known […]

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‘Migrant Knowledge, Early Modern and Beyond: an event at the Crossroads’: 15-17 September 2019, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, and Fitzwilliam College

This three-day public event brings together academics, artists, and activists to explore alternative ways of thinking and knowing about migration – of people, things, and ideas – rooted in the urgency of contemporary experience. It is part of the five-year ERC-funded project Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature, based at […]

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