Department of English

2013 Penn English Ph.D. graduate Claire M. L. Bourne played a role in the discovery that a copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio held by the Free Library of Philadelphia contains marginalia and corrections by John Milton.

Read more here in the blogpost where the discovery was first floated:

https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?p=5751

More reporting:

Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/09/17/juliet-romeo-newly-une...

New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/theater/milton-shakespeare-notes-firs...

Smithsonian Magazine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/john-miltons-annotated-copy-sh...