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Henry Folger’s Brigg Umbrella with Concealed Pencil
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC contains not only Shakespearean treasures ...
From Bangs to Maggs: Folger Fourth Folios
In 1889, 10 years after he graduated from Amherst College and 84 ...
Jonathan Strange and the Friends of English Verse Drama
‘This other magic, it will not do, sir.’ – Gilbert Norrell ‘But ...
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Travel to England by Henry and Emily Folger, 1903 – 1923
Henry Folger was unlike his executive colleagues at the Standard Oil Company in New York who vacationed in Florida and California or cruised the Mediterranean. He took his wife and ...
The Shylock Project
by Shaul Bassi This summer scholars, actors, students will spend four weeks on a Venetian island with an ambitious goal, that of preparing the first ever promenade production of The ...
Bernard Quaritch Ltd. and Henry Folger
“I regret that you insist upon a discount from my catalogue prices. I must decline trading on such terms. That other booksellers allow 10% discount from their catalogue is no ...
Verse Drama Now #1: Speaking the Speech
As Christopher Marlowe anachronistically says in Anonymous, six years after his historical death: ‘It’s difficult to write, isn’t it? After watching something like Hamlet. It eats at you – at ...
Why Shakespeare Still Matters
Shakespeare has mattered ever since his name first appeared in print in 1593 with his erotic and entertaining poem, Venus and Adonis. He was 29 years old. For much of ...
British Captain John Robinson and the Henry Folgers
Rosy-cheeked white-bearded poet, painter, and shipmaster Captain John Robinson of Watford, Hertfordshire was a commanding presence on the bridge of the steamship Minnehaha from 1900 until he retired from the ...
Louis Marder Shakespeare Centre Scholarship 2015
Are you studying Shakespeare at college, university, or for leisure? Are you going to be using the archives or library of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust? You might be interested in ...
Henry Folger’s British-Born Vicar, S. Parkes Cadman
Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman is high on the list of notables born in the town of Wellington, Shropshire in the West Midlands. After having worked ten years as a ...
Sidney Lee, Henry Folger, and the First Folio
Sidney Lee né Solomon Lazarus Lee in London in 1859 was a biographer and Shakespearean scholar. He edited the Dictionary of National Biography to which he contributed over 800 articles. ...
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