Exhibit: Folger Shakespeare Library
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"History in the Making: How Early Modern Britain Imagined Its Past"
Early modern Britain sought in numerous ways to reconcile its present with a past visibly at odds with it. Facing the dynastic and religious upheavals caused by the Wars of the Roses and the Protestant Reformation, the British tried to account for their present by rewriting the past.
This exhibit considers the ways in which the early modern British made, and remade, their own history. "Making History" focuses on how key events, such as the controversial execution of Mary Queen of Scots or the murderous Gunpowder Plot, were interpreted in the period, as well as on crucial ideas that helped shaped those interpretations.
It also examines some of the period's most important figures, both real (Charles I) and imaginary (Shakespeare's Falstaff), and the roles they played in the making of British Renaissance history.
Dates & Times:
January 24-May 17, 2008 10am-5pm
Monday-Saturday
Details:
Curator(s): Alan Stewart and Garrett Sullivan
Address:
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
"History in the Making: How Early Modern Britain Imagined Its Past"
Early modern Britain sought in numerous ways to reconcile its present with a past visibly at odds with it. Facing the dynastic and religious upheavals caused by the Wars of the Roses and the Protestant Reformation, the British tried to account for their present by rewriting the past.
This exhibit considers the ways in which the early modern British made, and remade, their own history. "Making History" focuses on how key events, such as the controversial execution of Mary Queen of Scots or the murderous Gunpowder Plot, were interpreted in the period, as well as on crucial ideas that helped shaped those interpretations.
It also examines some of the period's most important figures, both real (Charles I) and imaginary (Shakespeare's Falstaff), and the roles they played in the making of British Renaissance history.
Dates & Times:
January 24-May 17, 2008 10am-5pm
Monday-Saturday
Details:
Curator(s): Alan Stewart and Garrett Sullivan
Address:
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003