This essay argues that Queen Anna of Denmark did not cease masquing in 1611 simply due to political marginalization or grief, but strategically to pass a powerful propaganda tool to her son, Prince He...

It is an open secret in departments of English and theatre studies that what the postmodernists idolize as the most disruptive innovations in their own per

Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) has often attracted attention as the map Christopher Marlowe drew on in the Tamburlaine plays. In 1924, E

As Joseph Black shows in a previous post, gift inscriptions can be excellent sources of information about early women’s reading. While this 1624 edition of Bishop Francis White’s A Replie to Jesuit…

Join us for the Folger Institute's annual Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture with Dr. Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University.