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400 Years After His Death, Shakespeare’s First Folio Goes Out On Tour

400 Years After His Death, Shakespeare’s First Folio Goes Out On Tour

By Susan Stamburg for NPR, 4 January 2016 One of the world’s most precious volumes starts a tour on Monday, in Norman, Okla.The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is sending out William Shakespeare’s First Folio to all 50 states to mark the 400th anniversary of the bard’s death. Published seven years after he died, the First Folio is the first printed collection […]

January 9, 2016 · 0 comments · Uncategorized
Henry Folger’s obsessive hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio

Henry Folger’s obsessive hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio

By Dennis Drabelle for the Washington Post, 5 June 2015 Toward the end of her stirring book, economics professor Andrea Mays wonders if a new addition shouldn’t be made to the Folger Shakespeare Library’s decorations: a sculpture of an oil derrick to remind us where the place came from. The benefactor who opened his checkbook again and again to acquire First […]

June 12, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews