Dr. Heather Wolfe, Curator of Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library: "Tangled Texts in Early Modern England"
Date and Time
March 7, 2017
04:15PM - 05:30PM EST
Location
Founders 120, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
A talk on the interplay between manuscript and print and between text and image in Renaissance England, and on the continuity between early modern multimedia and the way we consume text and image today.
Heather Wolfe is an accomplished paleographer and author of numerous articles on early modern manuscripts. She 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). Dr. Wolfe and her work were recently featured in articles in The Guardian,The Wall St. Journal, and the The New York Times. Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Blended Learning Initiative and the Committee on Lectures and Cultural Events (The Baum Fund). Free and open to the public.