About

“Books and Early Modern Culture” is taught by Dr Sarah Werner and is offered fall and spring semesters through the Undergraduate Program at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

The syllabus is available to view by anyone, but the course readings can only be accessed by current students in the seminar. You are welcome to adapt or reuse this syllabus in your own classes; if you do, I would love to hear about it! And I would appreciate, to the degree it’s possible, being credited on any materials that you do reuse.

In the spirit of acknowledging influences, I have learned a great deal from the syllabuses used by Lyn Tribble and Heidi Brayman Hackel for when they taught the MA Seminar at the Folger Institute; the assignments on your book’s authors and your book’s readers were drawn from similar assignments from the latter.

Questions about the class, the Undergraduate Program, or related matters may be emailed to me. Information about the Program and who is eligible to participate can be found at www.folger.edu/undergraduates. Information about who I am can be found on the “about” section of my blog, Wynken de Worde. The books shown in my header image are from the same photo that I use on The Collation, and you can read about them on my post there.

The handy plugin that I’m using to protect files, by the way, is Download Manager (version 2.1.3).  I’m less fond of the current version, so I’ve stuck with the older one.