Author: Louis B. WrightPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780918016553
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Folger Library, Two Decades of Growth
Author: Louis B. WrightPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780918016553
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Folger Shakespeare Library
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Collecting Shakespeare
Author: Stephen H. GrantPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421411873
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world. In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger. Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging, and storing all manner of items about Shakespeare and his era. Emily earned a master's degree in Shakespeare studies. The frugal couple worked passionately as a tight-knit team during the Gilded Age, financing their hobby with the fortune Henry earned as president of Standard Oil Company of New York, where he was a trusted associate of John D. Rockefeller Sr. While a number of American universities offered to house the collection, the Folgers wanted to give it to the American people. Afraid the price of antiquarian books would soar if their names were revealed, they secretly acquired prime real estate on Capitol Hill near the Library of Congress. They commissioned the design and construction of an elegant building with a reading room, public exhibition hall, and the Elizabethan Theatre. The Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated on the Bard's birthday on April 23, 1932. The library houses 82 First Folios, 277,000 books, and 60,000 manuscripts. It welcomes more than 100,000 visitors a year and provides professors, scholars, graduate students, and researchers from around the world with access to the collections. It is also a vibrant center in Washington, DC, for cultural programs, including theater, concerts, lectures, and poetry readings. With unprecedented access to the primary sources within the Folger vault, Grant draws on interviews with surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.
Catalogue of the Very Choice Collection of Books Forming the Library of William F. Fowle, Esq. of Boston, Mass, which Will be Sold by Auction ... on ... the 20th, 21st, and 22d of December
Author: Leonard & co., firm, auctioneers, BostonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Cornell Studies in English
Author: The Dramatic Index
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: Eleanor E. HawkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2222
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The Elizabethan Top Ten
Author: Emma SmithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317034449
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Engaging with histories of the book and of reading, as well as with studies of material culture, this volume explores ’popularity’ in early modern English writings. Is ’popular’ best described as a theoretical or an empirical category in this period? How can we account for the gap between modern canonicity and early modern print popularity? How might we weight the evidence of popularity from citations, serial editions, print runs, reworkings, or extant copies? Is something that sells a lot always popular, even where the readership for print is only a small proportion of the population, or does popular need to carry something of its etymological sense of the public, the people? Four initial chapters sketch out the conceptual and evidential issues, while the second part of the book consists of ten short chapters-a ’hit parade’- in which eminent scholars take a genre or a single exemplar - play, romance, sermon, or almanac, among other categories-as a means to articulate more general issues. Throughout, the aim is to unpack and interrogate assumptions about the popular, and to decentre canonical narratives about, for example, the sermons of Donne or Andrewes over Smith, or the plays of Shakespeare over Mucedorus. Revisiting Elizabethan literary culture through the lenses of popularity, this collection allows us to view the subject from an unfamiliar angle-in which almanacs are more popular than sonnets and proclamations more numerous than plays, and in which authors familiar to us are displaced by names now often forgotten.
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Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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