HMML Reading Room Featured Exhibition
- Type
- Temporary exhibition
- Hours
- Monday through Sunday, in conjunction with the open hours of Alcuin Library.
- Location
- HMML Reading Room is located on lower level of Alcuin Library on the campus of Saint John’s University in Collegeville, MN.
- Exhibition
“He was not of an age, but for all time!': Shakespeare's Second Folio and the English Renaissance” introduces the complex nature of writing, language, and print in the 16th-17th centuries, from the first texts published using the new technology of the printing press to the publication of some of the most cherished literature written in English, like William Shakespeare's Second Folio, which is on display. The exhibition places authors and readers in the context of Renaissance England and includes editions from some of Shakespeare's most famous contemporaries, like John Milton, Ben Jonson, and Edmund Spencer as well as documents signed by King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I.
- Curator
- Dr. Audrey Thorstad, programming associate; Taylor Samuelson, HMML programming intern; assistance from Dr. Matthew Harkins (College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University).
- Admission
- Free and open to the public.
