Bursary Funded Research: a visit to the Houghton

Hey, look! I wrote up a summary of my bursary-funded trip to Harvard’s Houghton Library.

If you’re already a member of the Malone Society, you can apply for a bursary here, and for one of their other prizes here! If you aren’t, you should consider it! (And then apply here.)

Malone Society

The Malone Society offers bursaries, fellowships, and grants to support research. This blog post is the first in a series of pieces written by scholars who have been awarded funding from the Society. It was written by C. K. Ash, a doctoral student at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon.  

In 2012 I won a Malone Society Bursary that funded a research trip to the Houghton Library at Harvard University. The Houghton is home to rare books and manuscripts at Harvard, and so home to an original quarto of the Admiral’s Men comedy Look About You, first printed in 1600, and to an undated manuscript transcription of the play. Because I imagine you, dear reader, as a bibliographically kindred spirit, a few technical notes on the twoquarto-sized volumes of Look About You housed in Houghton.

The Kemble-Devonshire copy is one of the eight known extant quartos from the 1600…

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