ANNUAL REPORT July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015

201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-1004 202-544-4600 www.folger.edu Contents From the Chair and Director From the Chair and Director . . 1 With Applause ...... 14 From the Vaults ...... 4 Roster of Donors ...... 15 To the Folger Community and Friends: On Stage ...... 6 Roster of Volunteers . . . . . 26

Online and In Print ...... 9 Roster of Fellows ...... 31 2015 was a year to celebrate our partnerships. Among Scholars ...... 10 Financial Statements . . . . . 34 From the District of Columbia Public Schools to In the Classroom ...... 12 Board of Governors and Staff . 36 Shakespeare’s Globe in London to the University of Pennsylvania Press, partners helped the Folger scale up the impact of your generous contributions to reach millions of schoolchildren, theatergoers, scholars, and virtual visitors and give them unprecedented access to the treasures in our Louis R. Cohen collection.

As you read this report, you will learn about the projects resulting from these and other collaborations. Collaborative relationships are not meant to produce Chris Hartlove just one set of results, however, and you will continue to see them produce strategic initiatives, good work, and profound community service at the Folger in the coming years.

This year also saw a number of exciting changes: ■■ The Folger completed a number of upgrades Michael Witmore to our Elizabethan theater’s seating, flooring, and lighting, made possible in part by a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. We added seats and improved sightlines, creating a richer experience for our audiences, and made the theater more energy efficient with the installation of LED lights and a dimmer control system. With these upgrades in place, the Folger presented a robust season of arts and literary events, and celebrated its most commercially successful Folger Theatre production to date with Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. ■■ In February of 2015, we launched a beautifully redesigned website— www.folger.edu—which increased the capabilities of the Folger’s online presence, enabling visitors and researchers of all ages and around the world to stay connected to our work. In its first year live, Folger.edu has received over 4 million page views by just over 1 million unique users. Pepe Gomez; Cover Photo: Jeff Malet Pepe Gomez; Cover Photo: Jeff

The Folger’s Great Hall during Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for Longitude Cover: Adam Wesley Brown and Romell Witherspoon in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Folger Annual Report 2014/15 1 Are Dead ■■ We are particularly proud of our partnership with the National Maritime improvements over the next decades. Museum in Greenwich, England, which brought the successful exhibition We look forward to telling you more Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for Longitude to the Folger in Spring about these plans in the future. 2015. This was the Folger’s first time hosting an international exhibition, which began in Greenwich before visiting DC, Connecticut, and Sydney, Australia. Changes in the Folger Board of This exhibition was made possible, in large part, by an incredibly generous Governors membership included the sponsorship from United Technologies Corporation, the Folger’s largest resignation of Peter Rose, a longtime corporate gift ever. Board member whose support will be missed. The Board also welcomed In 2015, we continued to study our wonderful historic building and how it can four new members: Loren Rothschild, meet our ongoing needs. The building was a gift to the people by Henry and a business executive and rare book Emily Folger, custom designed to hold the single greatest collection of materials collector, Simon Russell Beale, a about Shakespeare’s works and his world, and to share those treasures with the highly respected and award winning public through performances, exhibitions, and education. We worked with the Shakespearean actor, May Liang, who respected architecture firm KieranTimberlake to produce a master plan of capital serves as general counsel and chief financial officer for software company OpenConcept Systems, Inc, and Peter Edwards, founder of Acorn Media. On the Folger staff, we bid farewell Teresa Wood Teresa

James Brantley to Laura Cofield, long time Head of Acquisitions, who retired after 41 years at the Folger. Sadly, we mourn the loss of Reggie Young, who served on the Folger’s facilities staff from 2007 until his passing in June 2015.

We are grateful for your steadfast support and friendship which made this past year’s successes possible.

Yours sincerely, Katie Ryan

Louis R. Cohen Chair, Board of Governors

Michael Witmore Joseph Marcell Director

2 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 3 2014/15 DOCENT BOARD From the Vaults JC McElveen, chair Skip Collins Highlights members and researchers, who James Brantley John Finedore have participated in a series of Tom Kelly The Folger added hundreds of transcribathons with the manuscripts. Carrol Kindel items to the collection this year, Elaine Miller including two of special note. The The Folger’s three-day symposium on Diane Shages first, an oil-on-canvas painting by rare book conserva­tion, Don’t Rock Kate Tallis Richard Westall depicting Imogen the Cradle, drew 120 conservators 72 docents donated 9,600 hours Entering the Cave of Belarius and curators from around the world. to the Folger in 2014/15 from Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, The event focused on exhibition commissioned circa 1795 by John design and the bespoke book mounts Boydell for his Shakespeare Gallery. of the Folger. The second, a copy of the 1684 Fourth Folio of Shakespeare’s plays, In March 2015, the Folger hosted EXHIBITIONS heavily annotated by Reverend Phillip Ships, Clocks, and Stars, an ■■ Symbols of Honor: Heraldry and James Brantley Francis who was intimately familiar incredibly successful exhibition from Family History in Shakespeare’s th England, July 1 through with stage practice in the 18 century. the National Maritime Museum of October 16, 2014 Greenwich, England. That exhibition ■■ Decoding the Renaissance: Early Modern Manuscripts Online marks the first time that a loan of 500 Years of Codes and Ciphers, (EMMO), a project to provide digital this magnitude has traveled to the November 11, 2014 through March 1, 2015 access to the Folger’s vast collection Folger. The Folger collaborated ■■ Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest of 16th and 17th-century handwritten with important exhibition lenders for Longitude, March 19 through material, hosted an advanced throughout the year, including the August 23, 2015 workshop to teach paleography of College of Arms for the Symbols of English secretary hand to sixteen Honor exhibition, and the Beinecke scholars from across the country. Library which loaned its rare, EMMO also provided a Practical enigmatic Voynich Manuscript for the Paleography course for Folger staff exhibition Decoding the Renaissance. James Brantley James Brantley James Brantley

4 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 5 On Stage Jeff Malet Jeff

Accompanied by a new series of Highlights Mignonette Dooley pre-show talks for young patrons, The Folger’s public programs set Folger Theatre’s three inventive and new records for artistic and literary successful season productions— excellence in the 2014/15 season. Julius Caesar, Schiller’s Mary Stuart, One high point was the Folger and Stoppard’s extraordinary Consort’s The Merchant of Venice: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Music and Poetry of Shakespeare’s Dead—drew more than 36,000 Play, featuring Derek Jacobi leading audience members. Folger Theatre a cast of actors and musicians, partnered with Shakespeare’s presented first at the Music Center at Globe, bringing Folger audiences Strathmore and then at Shakespeare’s acclaimed performances of Hamlet Globe in London. and King Lear. RSC Live screenings ■■ Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize: Geoffrey Brock and Heather McHugh, November 17, 2014 brought Royal Shakespeare Company ■■ Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute with Rafael Campo, December 8, 2014 In May, the O.B. Hardison Poetry productions into Folger Theatre for ■■ Simon Armitage and Peter Oswald, February 3, 2015 the second year. series concluded its season with an ■■ Rae Armantrout, February 19, 2015 incredible reading by former U.S. ■■ Adam Zagajewski, Clare Cavanagh, and Edward Hirsch, March 16, 2015 Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize The Folger also partnered with the ■■ Rita Dove, May 19, 2015 winner Rita Dove. She spoke about Capitol Riverfront BID to screen the effect Shakespeare’s sonnets three of Hollywood’s best takes on 2014/15 O.B. Hardison Poetry Board had on her early teen years and Shakespeare’s plays in celebration of throughout her career. his 451st birthday for a free weekend Gigi Bradford, chair Richard Lyon Marianna Schuelein of outdoor films at Yards Park. Edwin P. Conquest, Jr. Greg McBride Joan Shorey Christina Daub Mary McElveen Norman Sinel Harriet Patsy Davis Barbara Meade Amy Tercek FOLGER THEATRE’S 2014/15 SEASON Barbara Goldberg Chloe Yelena Miller Nigel Twose ■■ Shakespeare’s Globe, Hamlet, July 25 and 26, 2014 Patricia Gray Mary Muromcew David Weisman ■■ Shakespeare’s Globe, King Lear, September 5 through 21, 2014 Marifrancis Hardison Jean Nordhaus Mary-Sherman Willis ■■ Julius Caesar, October 28 through December 7, 2014 Joseph Hassett Catherine Payling Douglas Wolfire ■■ Mary Stuart, January 27 through March 8, 2015 Anita Herrick Jacqueline Quillen Anne Harding Woodworth ■■ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, May 12 through June 28, 2015 Sherman Katz Susan Rappaport Robert Liotta Heddy Reid FOLGER CONSORT’S 2014/15 SEASON, PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION ■■ Courting Elizabeth, September 26 through 28, 2014 ■■ A Renaissance Christmas, December 16 through 23, 2014 THE 2014/15 PEN/FAULKNER FICTION SERIES ■■ The Road to Canterbury, January 9 and 10, 2015 ■■ Ann Beattie, Tope Folarin, Onyine Ihezukwu, Greg Jackson, and Brendan ■■ The Merchant of Venice, February 27 and March 8 and 9, 2015 McKennedy, October 17, 2014 ■■ ■■ Ships, Clocks, and Stars, April 10 through 12, 2015 Okey Ndibe, Chinelo Okparanta, and Taiye Selasi, November 24, 2014 ■■ Edward P. Jones, Lorrie Moore, and Tobias Wolf, December 5, 2014 THE 2014/15 O.B. HARDISON POETRY SERIES ■■ Marilynne Robinson and James Carroll, January 12, 2015 ■■ Traci Brimhall, Cornelius Eady, Terrance Hayes, and Linda Pastan, ■■ Claire Vaye Watkins and Ruth Ozeki, February 9, 2015 September 15, 2014 ■■ T.C. Boyle, March 27, 2015 ■■ Stephen Dunn, September 29, 2014 ■■ Elizabeth Strout and Allan Gurganus, April 7, 2015 ■■ Writing from the Edge: 40th Anniversary of Graywolf, October 20, 2014

6 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 7 FOLGER LECTURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS

Ticketed Events Katherine Leedale Online and In Print ■■ Film Screening: RSC Live Production of Henry IV, Part 2, July 2, 2014 Highlights for all information related to the Folger including lists, how-tos, and ■■ Lecture: Thomas Cahill, Heretics and Heroes, September 8, 2014 February saw the successful launch of encyclopedic entries concerning ■■ Lecture: Peter O’Donoghue, York the Folger’s new website, Folger.edu, items in the collection, Shakespeare’s Herald, October 1, 2014 which received 123,000 page views by works and characters, and these ■■ Lecture: Cry “Havoc!”, Stephan 35,000 users in its first week. Online works in performance. Wolfert, November 4, 2014 visitors can now more easily navigate ■■ Consort Seminars with Director the Folger’s online offerings through The Folger partnered with JSTOR to Robert Eisenstein, September 24, a responsive, visually beautiful, and 2014, December 17, 2014, April 8, create Understanding Shakespeare, mobile-friendly website. a research tool that allows readers 2015 Free Events ■■ Brews and Banter Pre-show around the world to navigate within ■■ Shakespeare’s Coat of Arms and Discussions with Folger Theatre the Early Modern Heraldry Wars, The Folger also launched the Folger’s Digital Texts and view Actors, November 6, 2014, July 17, 2014 Folgerpedia, a collaboratively- scholarly articles referenced by February 26, 2015, May 21, 2015 ■■ Screening of Macbeth at the Carter edited, search-based encyclopedia individual lines. ■■ Public Panel: The Voynich Barron Amphitheatre, August 23, Manuscript, November 11, 2014 2014 SHAKESPEARE UNLIMITED ■■ ■■ Pre-Show Discussions with Director ■■ The Institute of Heraldry: Guardians Shakespeare in Black and White, Michael Witmore, November 12, of our National Symbolic Heritage, PODCAST EPISODES January 28, 2015 2014, February 11, 2015, May 27, September 19, 2014 ■■ Punk Rock Shakespeare, July 2, 2014 ■■ African Americans and 2015 Shakespeare, February 11, 2015 ■■ Paul Dickson on Authorisms, ■■ Shakespeare in Translation, July 16, ■■ Lecture: Neil L. Rudenstine, Ideas November 7, 2014 2014 ■■ Designing Shakespeare, of Order, December 2, 2014 February 25, 2015 ■■ Folger Friday: Poets Respond to ■■ Shakespeare LOL, July 30, 2014 ■■ Special Event: Atlas Obscura Julius Caesar, November 21, 2014 ■■ Recounting Shakespeare’s Life, and the Voynich Manuscript, ■■ Why Shakespeare’s Stories Still April 8, 2015 ■■ Paul Strohm on Chaucer’s Tale, Resonate, August 13, 2014 January 24, 2015 January 10, 2015 ■■ Myths About Shakespeare, ■■ Shakespeare and Insane Asylums, ■■ Film Screening: RSC Live ■■ April 22, 2015 MLK Poetry Day, January 19, 2015 August 27, 2014 Production of Love’s Labour’s Lost, ■■ ■■ Elizabethan Street Fighting, May 6, Folger Friday: Poets Respond to ■■ March 30, 2015 , February 6, 2015 Artistic Directors Talk Shakespeare, 2015 Mary Stuart September 10, 2014 ■■ Film Screening: RSC Live ■■ “They Would Never Allow Me to ■■ Shakespeare’s France and Italy, Production of Love’s Labour’s Won, Live”: The Secret Writings of Mary ■■ Music in Shakespeare, May 20, 2015 September 24, 2014 April 6, 2015 Queen of Scots, February 13, 2015 ■■ Shakespeare on Film, June 17, 2015 ■■ Lynne Magnusson on Shakespeare ■■ Romeo and Juliet through the and the Language of Possibility, Ages, October 8, 2014 April 16, 2015 ■■ When Romeo Was a Woman, Jeff Malet Jeff ■■ Shakespeare’s Birthday Open October 22, 2014 House, April 19, 2015 ■■ Codes and Ciphers from ■■ Bard in the Yards: Much Ado About the Renaissance to Today, Chris Hartlove Nothing, April 24, 2015 November 5, 2014 ■■ Bard in the Yards: The Taming of ■■ The Shakespearean Moons of the Shrew, April 26, 2015 Uranus, November 19, 2014 ■■ Folger Friday: Poets Respond to ■■ Pronouncing English as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Shakespeare Did, December 3, Dead, June 5, 2015 2014 ■■ Gravedigger’s Tale, June 12-13, 2015 ■■ A New First Folio Discovery, ■■ Folger Friday: Curator talk with December 17, 2014 Daniel De Simone, June 19, 2015 ■■ Rarely Performed Shakespeare, January 14, 2015

8 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 9 ■■ The Scale of Catastrophe: Ecology and Transition, Medieval to Early Modern, Among Scholars Thursdays, January 29 through April 23, 2015 (Semester-Long Seminar; Directed by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, The George Washington University) ■■ Afterlife of the Reformation: Embodied Souls and their Rivals, Fridays, Highlights With a generous grant of $176,000 February 6 through April 10, 2015 (Semester-Long Seminar; Directed by Brad from the National Endowment for Gregory and Dorothy G. Griffin, University of Notre Dame) In November 2014, the Folger the Humanities, the Folger Institute ■■ A Folger Introduction to Research Methods and Agendas, Fridays, February 6 Institute held a daylong workshop convened Early Modern Digital through April 24, 2015 (Semester-Long Seminar; Directed by Alan Farmer, The Ohio State University) of conservators, curators, librarians, Agendas 2015, a forum for scholars, ■■ Shakespeare’s Language, April 16 through 18, 2015 (Symposium) and other researchers to carefully librarians, and technical specialists. examine the Voynich Manuscript, on The highly successful EMDA2015 took loan from the Beinecke Library. This advantage of the public release of YEAR-LONG FELLOWS heavily illustrated text on parchment 25,000 early modern digital texts and Teresa Wood Teresa was carefully written by an unknown allowed participants to analyze data Claire M. L. Bourne, Assistant Professor Medieval or early Renaissance author with tools introduced by the visiting of English, Virginia Commonwealth in an elaborate script that has never faculty. In keeping with this focus, University been deciphered. The participants and with another generous NEH ’Set Forth as It Hath Been Played’: discovered new ways to approach its grant award of $300,000, the Folger Printing the Performance in Early mysteries and opened the door for began work on A Digital Anthology of Modern England new questions and future scholarship. Modern English Drama, a project to Folger Library Fellow provide free access to approximately 400 extant English plays by Gail McMurray Gibson, William R. Shakespeare’s contemporaries. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Humanities, Emerita, Davidson College Medieval Drama in Afterlife SCHOLARLY PROGRAMS National Endowment for the ■■ Introduction to English Paleography, May 18 through 22, 2015 (Intensive Skills Humanities Fellow Course; Directed by Heather Wolfe, Folger Curator of Manuscripts) ■■ Narratives of Conversion in Reformation Europe, ca. 1550-1700, September 12 and 13, 2014 (Faculty Weekend Seminar; Directed by Simon Ditchfield and Erika T. Lin, Associate Professor of Wood Teresa Helen Smith, University of York) English, George Mason University ■■ Science in Early Modern Atlantic World Cultures, Fridays, October 3 through Seasonal Festivity and Commercial December 12, 2014 (Semester-Long Seminar; Directed by Maria Portuondo, Performance in Early Modern England The Johns Hopkins University) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow ■■ Researching the Archive, Fridays, October 3, 2014 through April 10, 2015 (Year-Long Dissertation Seminar; Directed by Jean E. Howard, and Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University) Craig Martin, Associate Professor of ■■ Renaissance/Early Modern Translation, Fridays, October 10, 2014 through History, Oakland University May 22, 2015 (Year-Long Afternoon Colloquium; Directed by A. E. B. Coldiron, Global Science before Global Networks: Florida State University) the Background and Aftermath of ■■ Performing Restoration Shakespeare, November 14 and 15, 2014 (Weekend Francis Bacon’s History of Winds Workshop; Directed by Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Syracuse University, and Richard Schoch, Queen’s University Belfast) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow ■■ Advanced Early Modern English Paleography, December 8 through 12, 2014 (Weeklong Workshop; Directed by Heather Wolfe, Folger Curator of Manuscripts) David Norbrook, Merton Professor of ■■ Debating Capitalism: Early Modern Political Economies, Thursdays, January 29 English Literature, University of Oxford through April 23, 2015 (Semester-Long Seminar; Directed by Julia Rudolph, Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs: North Carolina State University, and Carl Wennerlind, Columbia University) Life-Writing, History, and Revolution The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow

10 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 11 In the Classroom FOLGER NATIONAL TEACHER CORPS ■■

Lloyd Wolf Sue Biondo-Hench, Carlisle High School, Carlisle, PA Folger Education also continued to Highlights ■■ Greta Brasgalla, El Dorado expand its reach digitally, including High School, El Paso, TX Folger Education completed its a collaboration with PBS to create ■■ Jill Burdick-Zupancic, Thomas first year as the primary provider of support material for the second Jefferson High School for professional development related to season of Shakespeare Uncovered. Science and Technology, Shakespeare for District of Columbia These materials, created specifically Fairfax, VA Public Schools (DCPS). Efforts for teachers and students, contained ■■ Josh Cabat, Roslyn Union Free included leading highly successful teaching tips, discussion questions, School District, Roslyn, NY workshops, presenting a QuickStart and handouts to be explored in ■■ Kevin Costa, McDonogh School, Guide for Teaching Shakespeare conjunction with each episode. Owings Mills, MD three-day institute, and offering ■■ Deborah Gascon, Dutch Fork other special programs like Two The summer Teaching Shakespeare High School, Irmo, SC Brains Running, a forum to hear from Institute, which gathers 25 teachers ■■ Mike Klein, Sachem High School Four Decades of Folger North, Lake Ronkonkoma, NY scholars and practitioners about from around the country and Education: By The Numbers how to teach the plays of August immerses them in a deep and ■■ Chris Lavold, Mauston High Wilson and how those relate to rich exploration of Shakespeare ■■ 1972 the Folger began working School, Mauston, WI with DC public schools Shakespeare’s works. scholarship and pedagogy at the ■■ Mark Miazga, City College High ■■ th 50 states are home to teachers School, Baltimore, MD Folger, celebrated its 30 anniversary we’ve served In addition to professional in 2014. Over three decades, 775 ■■ Mari O’Meara, Eden Prairie ■■ 793,906 students in DC, across development, actors from Folger middle and high school teachers have the country, and all over the High School, Eden Prairie, MN Theatre’s production of Julius Caesar participated in this transformational world have taken part in Folger ■■ Julia Perlowski, Parthum Middle visited DCPS schools to prepare program. programs School, Lawrence, MA students to see the play at the Folger, ■■ 26,411 teachers have ■■ Gina Voskov, United Nations participated in professional International School, New York, creating a deep connection between development with the Folger the students and the text. through workshops, conferences, NY master classes, and more ■■ The Folger has taught TEACHER, SCHOOL, AND FAMILY PROGRAMS Shakespeare to the children of ■■ Teaching Shakespeare Institute, June 29 through July 26, 2014 its Capitol Hill neighborhood for ■■ Lily McKee High School Fellowship Program, September 8 through 29 years December 8, 2014 ■■ 91 elementary schools in ■■ Shakespeare Steps Out (SSO), September 30, 2014 through June 15, 2015 all 8 wards of DC and in Katie Ryan Prince George’s County have ■■ Folger Teaching Artists in the Schools (FTAS), September 30, 2014 through April 30, 2015 participated in the Folger’s Shakespeare Steps Out program ■■ Educator Workshops: Shakespeare Set Free, December 2, 2014 through May 11, 2015; Shakespeare in Action for Students, August 27, 2014 through ■■ The Folger Editions are the #1 June 17, 2015 texts used in American high schools with over 15 million sold ■■ 35th Annual Secondary School Shakespeare Festival, February 18 through 26, 2015 ■■ 666,697 individuals used the Folger’s Teach and Learn web ■■ 36th Annual Emily Jordan Folger Children’s Festival, May 18 through 22, 2015 resources last year alone ■■ December 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015 Shakesperience: NJ, ■■ Through direct outreach ■■ Student Matinees, November 13, 2014 through May 28, 2015 programs and through their ■■ Shake Up Your Saturdays workshops for parents and children, first Saturday of teachers, the Folger has served every month 34 million students

12 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 13 With Applause Roster of Donors

Highlights The 2015 Annual Benefit Gala on We extend special appreciation to those individuals, corporations, foundations, April 23 was attended by over and government agencies that have provided financial support or in-kind The Folger received a significant 250 guests and raised more than contributions to the Folger Shakespeare Library and its programs during fiscal sponsorship gift of $400,000 from $360,000. In fiscal year 2015, year 2014/15. This honor roll of donors represents gifts of $250 or more that were United Technologies Corporation contributions from individuals, received between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015. We are also grateful to the in support of the exhibition Ships, couples, and families reached their many contributors whose names space will not permit us to print, including those Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for highest levels to date bringing in a who have pledged support for upcoming years. Longitude. This was the most record $1.67 million, an increase of successful and highly attended 34 percent over 2014. The Folger is also profoundly grateful to the volunteers, committee members, exhibition in the Folger’s history, and fellows whose time and effort make the work of the institution possible. serving just under 50,000 patrons. $100,000+ $25,000-$34,999 MEMBER AND FUNDRAISING EVENTS Vinton and Sigrid Cerf Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation ■■ Shakespeare’s Globe King Lear Patron Night, September 9, 2014 D.C. Commission on the Arts and Susan Sachs Goldman ■■ 11th Annual Renaissance Circles Dinner, October 9, 2014 Humanities, an agency supported in part Lannan Foundation by the National Endowment for the Arts ■■ Julius Caesar Opening Night, November 3, 2014 Mark Pigott KBE and Cindy Pigott Google.org ■■ Decoding the Renaissance Exhibition Opening, November 10, 2014 Shakespeare in American Communities The McKee family in loving memory of ■■ New Member Tour, December 6, 2014 (National Endowment for the Arts and Lily St. John McKee Arts Midwest) ■■ Twelfth Night Gathering of Friends, January 6, 2015 National Endowment for the Humanities ■■ Decoding the Renaissance Gallery Talk, January 15, 2015 United Technologies $20,000-$24,999 ■■ Mary Stuart Opening Night, February 2, 2015 Louis and Bonnie Cohen ■■ Acquisitions Night, February 5, 2015 $50,000-$99,999 The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund ■■ Folger Consort in London Hosted Trip, March 8-9, 2015 Council on Library and Information Helen and David Kenney Resources ■■ Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for Longitude Exhibition Opening, MARPAT Foundation March 19, 2015 J. May Liang and James Lintott Mr. and Mrs. Loren Rothschild ■■ Member Appreciation Weekend, March 27 and 28, 2015 The Honorable Eugene A. Ludwig and Dr. Carol Ludwig Mr. and Mrs. B. Francis Saul II ■■ Folger Shakespeare Library Annual Gala, April 23, 2015 National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs Neal T. Turtell ■■ Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for Longitude Gallery Talk, April 30, 2015 Program and the U.S. Commission of ■■ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Opening Night, May 18, 2015 Fine Arts $10,000-$19,999 Stuart and Mimi Rose Best Checks, Inc. B.H. Breslauer Foundation $35,000-$49,999 The Lord Browne of Madingley Anonymous Heather and Dick Cass

James Brantley James Brantley The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Clark-Winchcole Foundation Foundation Nicky and Steve* Cymrot The Ludwig Family Foundation Maygene and Steve Daniels Roger and Robin Millay Philip J. Deutch and Marne L. Levine Share Fund Mr. and Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. Deneen Howell and Donald Vieira Maxine Isaacs

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14 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 15 Kislak Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. H. Axel Schupf The Honorable and Mrs. John Deutch $1,000-$2,499 The Honorable John D. Macomber Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Sedgwick Dimick Foundation Anonymous (3) Jacqueline B. Mars Craig Pascal and Victor Shargai Barbra Eaton and Ed Salners John and Nancy Abeles Ann K. Morales Gabriela and Douglas Smith Marjorie & Anthony Elson Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Allbritton National Endowment for the Arts Robert J. & Tina M. Tallaksen The Foster Family Fund Mr. Brent James Bennett William and Louisa Newlin Louis B. Thalheimer and Juliet A. Eurich Wendy Frieman and David Johnson Dr. Erin Blake and Dr. Andrew Reid Darcy and Andy Nussbaum Tara Ghoshal Wallace Ruth Hansen and Lawrence Plotkin Mr. Peter England Blau Andrew Oliver and Melanie Du Bois Drs. Michael L. Witmore and Heinz Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Bracewell Gail Kern Paster Kellie Robertson Catherine Held Ms. Gigi Bradford and Mr. Jim Stanford Dwight and Kirsten Poler Ellen and Bernard Young Holland & Knight LLP Mr. and Mrs. David G. Bradley Joanne and Paul* Ruxin $2,500-$4,999 Ms. Deidre Holmes DuBois and Dr. Mary H. Branton Mr. Christopher E. DuBois The Shubert Foundation Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. I. Townsend Burden, III William L. Hopkins Gary and Mary Ellen Abrecht Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Callahan $5,000-$9,999 Andrea Kasarsky Keith and Celia Arnaud William J. Camarinos Anonymous (2) Rick Kasten Jarrett and Nora Arp Capitol Hill Community Foundation Twiss and Patrick Butler Karl K. and Carrol Benner Kindel Roger and Julie Baskes Mr. Richard H. Cleva Neal and Florence Cohen Mr. Arthur Koenig Hon. and Mrs. Samuel R. Berger Mr. Edwin P. Conquest, Jr. Mr. Kevin M. Downey and Ms. Michele Jolin Julianna Mahley Michael S. Berman and Deborah Cowan Mr. Eric Cooper Drs. Julian and Elizabeth* Eisenstein Drs. Daniel and Susan Mareck Bob Bradway Ronald M. Costell, M.D., and Ms. Denise Gwyn Ferguson Martayan Lan Rare Books, Inc. Marsha E. Swiss Bill and Evelyn Braithwaite John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation Mark McConnell and Leslie Delagran Marshall B. Coyne Foundation Ms. Marilyn Brockway Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Galvin Mr. and Mrs. Leander Ms. Harriet H. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Brown McCormick-Goodhart David and Margaret Gardner Mr. John F. Downey Howard M. Brown Pam McFarland and Brian Hagenbuch Graham Holdings Rose and John Eberhardt Peter Brown and Margaret Hamburg Martin and Elaine Miller Stephen H. Grant Mr. and Mrs. Peter Edwards Anthony & Anna L. Carozza Foundation Jane and Paul Molloy Wyatt R. and Susan N. Haskell Dr. William E. Engel Mr. Mark D. Colley and Hazel C. Moore Corina Higginson Trust Professors Sheila ffolliott and Ms. Deborah A. Harsch Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. The Mosaic Foundation (of R. & P. Heydon) Shepard Krech, III Brian and Karen Conway Mark and Carol Hyman Fund Carl and Undine Nash Nancy M. Folger and Sidney Werkman Porter and Lisa Dawson Nancy Jacobson and Mark Penn Melanie and Larry Nussdorf Bill and Helena Foulkes Department of Foreign Affairs (Ireland) Dr. Anne M. King Carolyn and Mark Olshaker Estate of Josephine Fox Michael Klein and Joan Fabry Gail Orgelfinger and Charles C. Hanna Carla and George Frampton Edward and Patricia Leahy Mr. Scott D. Pearson and Ms. Diana Farrell Dr. Thomas Cohen and Jon Ralph and Patty Gibson Dr. Lisa Cohen-Fuentes Amanda and Tom Lister Katie Ryan Mrs. Donald Rappaport The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Kenneth Ludwig and Adrienne George Dr. Sara D. Schotland The Honorable Seth Waxman and John and Susan Magee David Smith and Ilene Weinreich Ms. Debra Goldberg The Nancy Peery Marriott Foundation Ayanna Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Kingdon Gould, Jr. George Preston Marshall Foundation Mr. James Timberlake and Ms. Patricia J. Gray J.C. and Mary McElveen Ms. Marquerite Rodger Ann Greer John and Connie McGuire Scott and Liz Vance Dr. Martha Gross and Mr. Robert Tracy Chip Newton and Liz Smith Toby and Stacie Webb Dr. and Mrs. Werner L. Gundersheimer Mr. Dusty Philip Christie and Jeff Weiss Dr. Elizabeth H. Hageman Mr. Ben Reiter and Weissberg Foundation Mrs. O.B. Hardison, Jr. Mrs. Alice Goldman Reiter Nyla and Gerry Witmore The Nora Roberts Foundation Anne and Fred Woodworth * Deceased

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24 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 25 John and Pat Deutch Senator Angus King Matthew Augustine, Roster of Volunteers Alan Fleischmann and Senator Amy Klobuchar University of St. Andrews Dafna Tapiero Congressman John Lewis Laura Bass, Brown University The Folger is profoundly grateful to the volunteers whose time and service from Lisa Fuentes and Congressman Thomas Cohen Frank A. LoBiondo Alastair Bellany, July 2014 through June 2015 made possible the work of the institution. Rutgers University Susan Sachs Goldman Congresswoman Maxine Isaacs Doris Matsui Barbara Bono, DOCENTS Tom Kelly Helen Urquhart University at Buffalo Nancy Jacobson and Congresswoman We are profoundly Carrol Kindel Pamela Wagner Mark Penn Betty McCollum Anston Bosman, grateful to our Kathleen Kovach Gail Weigl Amherst College docents, who play a J. May Liang and Senator Barbara A. Mikulski Steve Krawczel Louise Wheatley James Lintott Sheila Cavanagh, vital role in engaging Congresswoman Emory University and educating Nancy Langston Meredith Whitfield Amanda and Tom Lister Chellie Pingree everyone who Theresa Coletti, Elizabeth Layton Joe Winski Carol and Gene Ludwig Congressman University of Maryland comes to the Folger Joseph R. Pitts Shakespeare Library. Bethany Lilly Leonardo Williams Ken Ludwig and Mario DiGangi, Docents gave 9,400 Elva Malone Leslie Wyatt Adrienne George Senator Jack Reed The City University of hours in 2014/15 to Jessica Clark May Maureen Yacobucci William and Louisa Newlin Congresswoman New York serve our visitors. Debbie Wasserman Schultz Mimi Marquet Herman J. Obermayer Margaret Ezell, 2015 FOLGER Senator Charles E. Schumer Texas A&M University Jane Bakken J.C. McElveen Gail Kern Paster GALA COMMITTEE Senator Jeanne Shaheen Raphael Falco, Stephanie Ballard Mary McElveen Sara Schotland We acknowledge the University of Maryland, Meghan Bartels Mallory and Diana Walker Congresswoman Robin Millay Gala Chair, Honorary Louise Slaughter Baltimore County Dorothy Boerner Brian Miller Co-Chairs, members of Honorary Committee Congressman Patrick Tiberi Francesca Fiorani, Elaine Cassel Elaine Pouletsos Miller the Gala Committee, University of Virginia and members of the Speaker John A. Boehner Senator Tom Udall Christopher “Buddy” Juliet Fleming, Julia Francis Miller Honorary Committee Senator Kelly A. Ayotte Cassidy Senator Mark R. Warner New York University Janice Molchon whose generous Senator Michael F. Bennet Senator Elizabeth Warren Dorothy Christensen leadership and Mary Floyd-Wilson, Elizabeth Montagne Congresswoman Osa Coffey support ensured the Senator Roger F. Wicker University of North Francesca Morizio incredible success of Jamie Herrera Beutler Carolina at Chapel Hill Skip Collins Congressman Michael Neuman the 2015 Folger Gala, Senator Roy Blunt Roger Williams Marjorie Garber, Gerry Connolly Jennifer Newton benefiting the Folger’s Senator Shelly Moore Harvard University Diana Darwin educational and Capito FOLGER INSTITUTE Christopher Hodgkins, Jane Orci cultural programs. Laura Donnelly Senator Thad Cochran CONSORTIUM University of North Lawrence Plotkin Katie Dvorak Co-Chairs Congressman Steve Cohen EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Carolina at Greensboro Amina Rahman Ellen Egan Philip Deutch and Congressman Tom Cole The Folger Institute Peter Holland, Penelope Rahming Consortium is University of Notre Dame Marilyn Eisenhardt Marne Levine Congressman Sarah Rosenbaum a collaborative Eric Johnson, Christina Elliott Honorary Co-Chairs John K. Delaney endeavor of the Folger Melinda Rubin The Ohio State University John Finedore The British Ambassador Congresswoman Shakespeare Library Reginald Saville Rosa DeLauro and more than 40 Marya Fitzgerald and Lady Westmacott * Deceased Lisa Schroeter Senator Michael B. Enzi universities in the Gina Guglielmo Members U.S. and abroad. We Diane Shages Senator Deb Fischer are grateful to the Nancy Glenn Hansen The Honorable and Robin Swope Senator Al Franken faculty representatives Stephanie Hatman Mrs. Samuel Berger* Kate Tallis Senator Kirsten Gillibrand who serve on the Emily Heard Peter Brown and Consortium Executive Sally Tassler Margaret Hamburg Senator Chuck Grassley Nancy Howard Committee, and who Action is Amy Thompson The Lord Browne of Senator Orrin G. Hatch help plan and oversee Linda Itzoe Mary Claire Tracy Madingley Senator John Hoeven scholarly programs. eloquence… David Jeffrey EJ Truax Vinton and Sigrid Cerf Congressman Sharon Achinstein, Susan Jonas Coriolanus, 3.2.95 Betsy Tunis Louis and Bonnie Cohen David P. Joyce The Johns Hopkins University

26 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 27 Brendan Kane, Charlotte Sussman, We would like to David Schalkwyk, John Butler Jean Miller Frane University of Connecticut Duke University acknowledge the Queen Mary-University of Leon and Loredana Calin Kristina Franke editors and editorial Warwick Eve Keller, John Thompson, Donna Canada Lory Frenkel Fordham University Queen’s University Belfast board members who Ayanna Thompson, help maintain SQ’s George Washington Karen Canova Alan Friedman Arthur F. Kinney, Amanda Eubanks Winkler, pre-eminence. University of Syracuse University University Xinyi Cao Lisa Fthenakis Massachusetts, Amherst Keith Wrightson, Editor Virginia Mason Vaughan, Tim Carlton Bob and Kay Fuller Michael Kuczynski, Yale University Gail Kern Paster, Folger Clark University Marshall Carolus Alda Giusti Tulane University Alok Yadav, Shakespeare Library Paul Werstine, Diane Carroad Nancy Glover King’s University College Nina Levine, George Mason University Joan Carter Kathleen Gohn University of South Carolina Consulting Editors Theodore Leinwand, PUBLIC PROGRAMS Bryant Centofanti Mark and Ellen Goldberg Joseph Loewenstein, CENTER FOR THE University of Maryland, Washington University in HISTORY OF BRITISH USHERS AND VOLUNTEERS Jane Chick Renee Goldin College Park St. Louis POLITICAL THOUGHT We are grateful to Timothy Christenson Gary and Anne Gortenburg Barbara Mowat, those ushers and Lynne Magnusson, STEERING COMMITTEE Nancie Coan Gail Graham Folger Shakespeare Library volunteers who University of Toronto The Center for the give their time to Bernie Cohen Betty Greene History of British Katherine Mannheimer, Editorial Board Members ensure the Folger’s Carly Cohen Alice Gregal University of Rochester Political Thought public programs are sponsors programs Amanda Bailey, Ken Cohen Peter Gribbin Twyla Meding, University of Maryland, welcoming to our and publications audiences. M.R. Cohen Dave, Marlene, and West Virginia University that have remapped College Park Lee Cooper Annie Gustafson Marcy North, the main patterns Sarah Beckwith, Ginger Ackerman Pennsylvania State Duke University Steve Cordle John Hall of political thought Heather Addison University and discourse in a Colin Burrow, Joan Darrah Ken Halperin major political culture Tamara Alfson Elisa Oh, Oxford University Bridget Dean-Pratt Nancy Halsey over three seminal Howard University Louis Altarescu Nancy Glenn Hansen centuries. We are Supriya Chaudhuri, Melissa Delp Lena Cowen Orlin, Jadavpur University Jean Arnold grateful to those Kelly Dickinson Virginia Harris Georgetown University serving on the Center’s Bradin Cormack, Mary Katherine Ascik Eileen and Michael Doheny Sherry Hart Linda Levy Peck, Steering Committee. Princeton University Sonali Ballal The George Washington Molly Donahue Ellen Hellawell David Armitage, Katherine Eggert, Pat Bangs University University of Colorado, Mary Pat Donelan Judith Henderson Harvard University Barry Barriere Kristen Poole, Boulder Mary Duru Marie Himel Linda Levy Peck, University of Delaware Meghan Bartels Pat Hipple George Washington John Gillies, Linda Dziobek Maureen Quilligan, University of Essex Ariel Baska University Mary Jo Eustice Chi Hoang Duke University Elizabeth Hanson, Christina Bauer Julia Rudolph, Catherine Falknor David Hoexter Daniel Riches, North Carolina State Queen’s University Regina Bellina University of Alabama Veronica Faust Joyce Howland University Jonathan Hope, Sharon Bisdee Louise Fenner Joyce Hubbard Kathryn Schwartz, Gordon J. Schochet, University of Strathclyde Doris Bloch William Hunt Vanderbilt University Rutgers University MacDonald Jackson, Marc Ferrara John Bobslek Bob Iacovazzi Anita Sherman, Nigel Smith, University of Auckland Rick and Diane Flaherty American University Virgil and Diane Bodeen Princeton University Roslyn Knutson, Jim Foley Diane Jackson James Siemon, University of Arkansas, Nancy Bort Elizabeth Jacobs Boston University Little Rock SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY Tammy Preston Boyd Susan Jacobs David Simon, EDITORS AND Douglas Lanier, Pamela Brooke University of Chicago EDITORIAL BOARD University of New Kristine Jantzi Mike and Margaret Brown Lloyd Wolf Nigel Smith, Hampshire Tammara Jenkins Shakespeare Quarterly Dee Brown Princeton University is the Folger’s peer Jeremy Lopez, Kristin Johnson Kalyn Bruin Peter Stallybrass, reviewed journal University of Toronto Bart Jones committed to University of Pennsylvania Nicholas Moschovakis, Carole Buncher Valerie Kaplan publishing essays that Washington, DC Devin Burke Alan Stewart, are at the forefront of Carol Karp Columbia University Shakespeare studies. Martha Burns Carol Keith Brett Bursang

28 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 29 Ed and Miriam Kelty Rafayna Naquib William Smith Lynne Kennedy Jeffrey Newcomb Nenita Sola Roster of Fellows David Kessler Marsha and Jeremy Nice Ellen Spencer Liliane Kiefer Denise Norwood Jacalyn Stein The Folger would like to acknowledge the scholars who received Folger Linda Killian Fran Nozary Sue and Steve Sternheimer fellowships in 2014/15 whose research, writing, and ideas sustain our vibrant Renee Klish Barbara and James O’Grady Christopher Stewart intellectual community and carry our collections out into the world. Michael Kolakowski Donelle O’Meara Carol Strachan Catharine Kopac Barbara Omohundro Richard and Roberta Strohl Harriet Archer, English Katharine Cleland, English Joan Kugler Anita and Mary O’Reilly Elizabeth Sutherland Newcastle University Virginia Tech University Gene Lang Chris Orvin Katherine Tallis Reading Poetic Authority in 1570s England: Fictions of Clandestine Marriage in Early Anne Larin Barbara Ottke Rob Tarakan Manuscript Marginalia to English Printed Modern England Katharine Leiden Rita Parks Barbara Taylor Poetry in the Folger Collection Gail Lelyveld Patricia Pasqual Alysia Thaxton Rita Costa-Gomes, History Tamara Atkin, English Towson University Dianne Levine Emily Pegues Kay Thompson Queen Mary University of London Ronn Levine Margery Perko Laura Tiehen A Cartographer’s Tale: Boazio’s 1588 View Play and Book: Drama‚ Reading‚ and the of Santiago Teri Levitin John and Karen Peters Trudy Todd Invention of the Literary in Tudor England Claire Lewandowski Robin Phillips Nadia Tongour Lezlie Cross, Drama Patricia Locke Ruthann Pippenger Sherrell Varner Anna Bertolet, English University of Washington Oliver Long Wes Pippert Kate and David Varvel Auburn University The Nineteenth-Century Shakespeare Roy Lunitz Michael and Penny Pollard Lisa Volk Written in Thread on Contested Ground: Dramaturg: William Winter and Horace Wes Macadam Kathleen Pugh Valentina Volkovitskaya Gender and Needlework in Early Modern Howard Furness Glen Macdonald Jorianne and Matt Richards Renate Wallenberg England Kathie Mack Rosalyn Ridgway Jill Walling Cesare Cuttica, English Studies James Maddux Jayn Rife Don Walsh Joshua Calhoun, English University of Paris University of Wisconsin-Madison Claudia Maloney Stephen Riker Etarae and Jerry Weinstein Fighting the Monstrous ‘Many-Headed Dorothy Marschak Jane and Geoffrey Rinard Dave Wendler Revising the Past: Ink Blots‚ Erasure‚ and Multitude’: Anti-Democracy in Early Ecologies of Inscription in Renaissance Modern England ca. 1580-1640 Carol Marsh Rich and Sue Robinson Alison Westfall England Dorothy Marshall Berthica Rodriguez- Caryn Wexler McCleary Surekha Davies, History Carol Matteini Sheila Wickouski Clare Carroll, Comparative Literature Western Connecticut State University Nicole Mazur Shirley and Gene Rosenfeld Mark and Ellen Williams Queen’s College, CUNY Mapping the Peoples of the New World: Katie Ross Mike McAvey Stephen Williams The Uses of Spenser’s A View of the Ethnography‚ Imagery, and Knowledge in Brenda McCoy Melanie Russell Trudie Williams Present State of Ireland Renaissance Europe Judy McDowell Scott Sanger Linda Joy Wilson John McGraw Bozena Sarnecka-Crouch Linda Winer Antonio Castore, Humanities Vivian Davis, English Susanna McIlwaine Dennis Sather Arnold Wollman University of Turin University of Arkansas David Megel Margaret Scrymser Jane Woodard Pericles‚ Prince of Tyre: A New Translation Genres of the Moment: David Garrick Gail Meighan Diane Seeger Naomi Woolsey and Critical Edition in Italian Between Tragedy and Comedy Jeffrey Menzer Lonna Shafritz Steven Wright Leah Chang, French Eoin Devlin, History Michelle Metzger Lilly Shoup Janice Yeadon The George Washington University University of Cambridge Mark and Rhonda Miller Teri Sierra Mary Yee Two Queens: Maternity and the British Responses to the Baroque‚ Marianne Moerman Jane Simpson Michael Gary Zeliff Embodiment of Sovereignty in Early c.1603 –c.1797 Maurice Singer Elizabeth Montagne Karen Zens Modern France and England Sam Morgan Melanie Sletten Karen Zerling Terese Morris Leila Smith

30 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 31 Derek Dunne, English Jack Lynch, English Claire Sponsler, English University of Fribourg Rutgers University University of Iowa Vindictive Justice‚ Participatory Revenge We thank you The Shakespeare Phantom: The Lives of Reading the Beauchamp Pageant William Henry Ireland Rebecca Emmett, History all for this Tatiana String, Art St. John’s College, Oxford great favor done… Kate Narveson, English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Publishing Networks in Elizabethan Luther College Masculinity and the Male Body in London: The Case of Thomas Man Henry VI, Part 2, 1.1.76 Resting Assured: Devotional Reading and Renaissance Art the Creation of Emotion Alan Galey, Faculty of Information Mark Vareschi, English University of Toronto Sandrine Parageau, English Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Paris, West Visualizing Variation in Shakespeare and Bruce Janacek, History Everywhere and Nowhere: The Anonymous Early Modern Books North Central College Spreading the Word of a Woman Kabbalist: Text‚ 1660–1790 A Translation of Anne Conway’s ‘The Elias Ashmole: A Study in Virtuosity David Gehring, Theology and Religion Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Julianne Werlin, English Durham University Philosophy’ (1690/1692) The University of Southern California Claire Jowitt, English Anglo-German Translations and Travel‚ University of Southampton Informers and Information in Francis 1558–1603 Jared Richman, English Bacon’s Thought Critical Edition of Hakluyt’s ‘The Principal Colorado College Navigations’: Volume XIV Musa Gurnis, English (In)audible Bodies and (In)visible Voices: John West, English Washington University Elocution and Disability in the Long University of Exeter Darcy Kern, History Heterodox Drama: Theater in Post- Eighteenth Century McDaniel College Literature and the Succession of Charles II‚ Reformation London 1649–1661 Tyranny in Translation: The Reception of Leslie Ritchie, English Paolo Sarpi in Renaissance England Queen’s University Vanessa Harding, History‚ Classics & Jay Zysk, English Archaeology David Garrick and the Mediation of University of South Florida Birbeck, University of London David Lawrence, History Celebrity Trent University Shadow and Substance: Reading the Richard Smyth (1590–1675) and his Books Eucharist in Medieval and Early Modern England’s Merchant Soldiers: Civic Jenny Sager, English English Drama Megan Heffernan, English Militarism and Military Performance in the The University of Nottingham DePaul University Early Stuart Period The Friar Bacon Plays: Robert Each Part Together: Form‚ Collections‚ and Greene’s ‘Friar Bacon’ and ‘Friar Kat Lecky, English the Poetic Imagination in Tottel’s England Bungay and John of Bordeaux’ Bucknell University

Brett Hirsch, English and Cultural Studies The Laureate Poetics of Pocket Maps in Anita Sherman, English The University of Western Australia Renaissance Britain American University

Reproducing Renaissance Drama‚ The Skeptical Imagination of Margaret Wood Teresa Catherine Loomis, English 1744 –2014 Cavendish University of New Orleans

Katherine Hunt, Literature‚ Drama‚ and The John Jack Promptbook Monika Smialkowska, Humanities Creative Writing Northumbria University University of East Anglia Fabio Luppi, Education Science Shakespeare 1916: Local and Global Roma Tre University Arts of Variation: Permutational Practices Perspectives and the Shape of Change in Seventeenth- New Edition and First Italian Translation of Century English Writing the Jacobean Play by John Marston and Courtney Smith, English Others: ‘The Insatiate Countess’ Wesleyan University Empiricist Devotions: Scrutinizing Nature in Early Eighteenth-Century England

32 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 Folger Annual Report 2014/15 33 THE TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE Financial Statements FOLGER SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL LIBRARY STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES THE TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE for the year ended June 30, 2015 FOLGER SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL LIBRARY Temporarily Permanently Balance Sheet, June 30, 2015 Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total ______ASSETS REVENUES, GAINS Cash and cash equivalents $ 1,302,712 AND OTHER ADDITIONS Accounts receivable 547,378 Investment income $ 2,748,648 $ 1,116,617 $ 3,865,265 Contributions receivable, net 172,596 Realized (loss) gain on Other assets 1,684,881 investments, net of fees (1,813,744) 23,724,650 21,910,906 Investments 332,257,160 Unrealized gain on Property, plant and equipment, net ______43,271,598 investments (600,971) (7,807,869) (8,408,840) TOTAL ASSETS $ 379,236,325 Change in net value of ______life income funds 11,290 $ 5,561 16,851 LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS U. S. Government grants 1,029,358 1,029,358 Accounts payable $ 583,173 Gifts and other grants 622,734 2,219,321 177,237 3,019,292 Accrued liabilities 132,194 Program and other 3,454,426 3,454,426 Deferred income 537,020 Net assets released Liability for life income obligations 577,316 from restrictions 15,346,331______(15,346,331) ______Postretirement benefit obligations 7,773,817 Asset retirement obligations 163,419 TOTAL REVENUES, GAINS AND OTHER ADDITIONS 19,757,424______4,947,036 ______182,798 ______24,887,258 Other liabilities ______551,169

TOTAL LIABILITIES $ ______10,318,108 EXPENDITURES AND ______OTHER DEDUCTIONS NET ASSETS Administration 3,318,970 3,318,970 Unrestricted $ 64,704,432 Office of Development 954,831 954,831 Temporarily restricted 279,132,105 Central Library 7,652,392 7,652,392 Permanently restricted 25,081,680 ______Museum Shop and Rental Properties 265,141 265,141 TOTAL NET ASSETS $ ______368,918,217 ______Academic Programs 2,110,643 2,110,643 Public Programs 4,265,276 4,265,276 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $ 379,236,325 ______Grant Activities ______915,767 ______915,767 TOTAL EXPENDITURES AND OTHER DEDUCTIONS 19,483,020______19,483,020

INCREASE IN NET ASSETS ______274,404 ______4,947,036 ______182,798 ______5,404,238 The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements. NET ASSETS, The Folger Shakespeare Library is a private, independently endowed, tax exempt institution governed by an independent Board of Governors. The Folger Shakespeare Library is administered by the Trustees BEGINNING OF YEAR 64,430,028______274,185,069______24,898,882 363,513,979______of Amherst College in accordance with the terms of the wills of its founders, Henry Clay Folger and Emily Jordan Folger. Therefore, the Trustees of Amherst College are the official body under which the Folger Shakespeare Memorial Library is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service under sections 501(c)(3) and NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR $ 64,704,432______$279,132,105______$ ______25,081,680 $368,918,217______509(a)(1) of the tax code, with Federal Employer Tax ID #04-2103542. ______

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