Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800

Saturday, January 18th, 2020 - Sunday, April 19th, 2020

“I’ll call for pen and ink, and write my mind.”
Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I
 
Was the pen ever mightier than the sword?  This exhibition looks closely at the hand-written text in early modern Britain, and asks what it has to tell us about power, wit, and the questions we might ask of the manuscript past.

Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800 consists of three individual exhibits:
 
Paper-businesses: Manuscript and Power in Early Modern England by Kathryn James, curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts and the Osborn Collection

Pastime With Good Company: Writing and Leisure in Early Modern England by Eve Houghton, graduate student in Department of English, Yale University

The Critics’ Gallery: The Manuscript as Critical Object by Ray Clemens, Johanna Drucker, Diane Ducharme, Anastasia Eccles, Marta Figlerowicz, Susan Howe, David Scott Kastan, Jonathan Kramnick, Nancy Kuhl, Larry Manley, Lucy Mulroney, Cathy Nicholson, John Durham Peters, Sara Powell, Joe Roach, Peter Stallybrass, Emily Thornbury, Michael Warner

Public exhibition spaces on the ground floor and mezzanine are open daily to all.
 
Mon 10am - 7pm (Reading room & public exhibition hall)
Tue - Thu 9am - 7pm (Reading room & public exhibition hall)
Fri 9am - 5pm (Reading room & public exhibition hall)
Sat 12pm - 5pm (Public exhibition hall only, ground floor & mezzanine)
Sun 12pm - 4pm (Public exhibition hall only, ground floor & mezzanine)

Free admission

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
344 Winchester Avenue
Dock 8

New Haven, CT

41.324844, -72.92968

Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800