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So exciting! The @FolgerLibrary #ShakespeareUnlimited podcasts are now on @iTunes! Here's ours, "Fetch Me a Stoup of Liquor" (#12):

Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas is the creation of two English professors who combined their love of the cocktail hour and their love of Shakespeare to write a collection of Bard-inspired cocktail and hors d’oeuvre recipes with names like "Kate's Shrew-driver" and "Hamlet's 'Unweeded Garden' Spring Rolls."

The images of Shakespeare characters that accompany the recipes are all taken from the Folger Shakespeare Library collection – with the clever addition via Photoshop of blenders, martini glasses, and even tiny cocktail umbrellas.

In this episode of Shakespeare Unlimited, Rebecca Sheir interviews Caroline Bicks, a professor at Boston College, and Michelle Ephraim, a professor at Worcester Polytechnical Institute, about their inspiration for the book.

This thoroughly modern book was released September 1, 2015, and the authors gave a free talk at the Folger Shakespeare Library September 25.

"Go, get thee in, and fetch me a stoup of liquor." —Hamlet (5.1.61-62)

http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited-episode-30

Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas is the creation of two English professors who combined their love of the cocktail hour and their love of Shakespeare to write a collection of Bard-inspired cocktail and hors d’oeuvre recipes with names like "Kate's Shrew-driver" and "Hamlet's 'Unweeded Garden' Spring Rolls."

The images of Shakespeare characters that accompany the recipes are all taken from the Folger Shakespeare Library collection – with the clever addition via Photoshop of blenders, martini glasses, and even tiny cocktail umbrellas.

An opportunity from our friends at the Folger Institute:

Introduction to English Paleography A Late-Spring Intensive Skills Course Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=4754&showpreview=1#maypaleo

This weeklong course provides an intensive introduction to handwriting in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on the English secretary hand of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries. Working from manuscripts in the Folger collection, up to fifteen participants will be trained in the accurate reading and transcription of secretary, italic, and mixed hands. They will also experiment with contemporary writing materials (quills, iron gall ink, and paper), learn the terminology for describing and comparing letterforms, and become skillful decipherers of abbreviations, numbers, and dates. All transcriptions made by participants will become part of the Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO) database (http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/EMMO ).

Director: Heather Wolfe is Curator of Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She has written widely on manuscripts in early modern England and is currently thinking about hybrid books, early modern writing paper, and filing systems. Dr. Wolfe has edited The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680 (2007), The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608: A Facsimile Edition of Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.b.232 (2007), and Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland: Life and Letters (2001), along with two exhibition catalogs: The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (2002), and, with Alan Stewart, Letterwriting in Renaissance England (2004).

Schedule: Monday through Friday, 10 - 4:30 p.m., 18 - 22 May 2015.

Apply: 2 March 2015 for admission and grants-in-aid. Grants-in-aid are available by request for affiliates of the Institute's Consortium, and Mellon funding extends eligibility for grants-in-aid to advanced PhD students and junior faculty at U.S. colleges and universities, to advanced PhD students and junior faculty at Canadian institutions, to professional staff of U.S. and Canadian libraries and museums, and to qualified independent scholars. Mellon funding provides modest stipends to all admitted participants.

Applications should be submitted through our online portal: https://www.onlineapplicationportal.com/folgerscholarlyprograms/

Please note: This is a beginning paleography offering; intermediate and advanced paleographers should look for an announcement later this spring about the weeklong "Advanced Early Modern English Paleography" workshop to be offered again in December 2015. Send any questions to [email protected].

Best,

Owen

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“Early Modern Digital Agendas: Advanced Topics” seeks 15 DH scholars to bring their own data sets to the Folger in Washington, DC, in the second half of June 2015.

Under the direction of Jonathan Hope, Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Strathclyde, visiting faculty and participants will conduct an advanced exploration of data creation and management followed by various forms of hands-on investigation, including text analytics, social network analysis, dimensionality reduction, and research process design. Attention will also be paid to historical reflection on the nature of "exemplarity" claims in humanistic argument.

This institute is supported by a generous grant from the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities. Further details, including the visiting faculty, curriculum, eligibility, and applications materials and guidelines, may be found here: 

http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/EMDA2015

As with the first instance of Early Modern Digital Agendas in July 2013, we look forward to receiving many excellent applications from members of the DHSI list! Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Best, Owen

  Owen Williams, Ph.D.

Assistant Director for Scholarly Programs

The Folger Institute

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