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Folger Exhibitions: “History in the Making: How Early Modern England Imagined Its Past”

Folger Shakespeare Library

201 East Capitol Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
Phone: Main: 202.544.4600, Box Office: 202.544.7077
Fax: 202.544.4623

Nearby Metro Stops:

Union Station
Capitol South

Wheelchair Accessible:

Yes

Kid Friendly:

Yes

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This exhibit places the act of commemoration at the heart of the study of Renaissance England—both our commemoration of that society, and that society’s commemoration of its past. The Tudor regime turned to rewritings of history to explain its right to the English throne and invented its own past and its own martyrs through history texts that serve a commemorative function.