Author: James Hamilton FennellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Shakespeare Repository
Author: James Hamilton FennellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Shakespeare Repository
Author: Collecting Shakespeare
Author: Stephen H. GrantPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421411873
Category : Art
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 of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug. 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, April 23, 1932. The library houses 82 First Folios, 275,000 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, D.C., for cultural programs, including theater, concerts, lectures, and poetry readings. The library provided Grant with unprecedented access to the primary sources within the Folger vault. He 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.
The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608
Author: Thomas TrevilianPublisher: Jordan Schnitzer Museum
ISBN: 9780295986593
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Elaborately decorated commonplace book containing, among other things: Bible verses, calendar of saints' days, lists of concepts (e.g. Nine muses, Seven deadly sins, Nine worthies, Five alls), thumbnail biographies of the pre-Norman rulers of England, decorative initials, crewelwork motifs for caps, designs for mazes and knot gardens, and the mayors of London 1558-1602 with highlights of their time in office.
Shakespeare and Race
Author: Catherine M. S. AlexanderPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521779388
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This volume, first published in 2000, draws together thirteen important essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare's drama.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Shakespeare Exhibition Held in the Bodleian Library to Commemorate the Death of Shakespeare, April 23, 1616
Author: Bodleian LibraryEmotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage
Author: Bridget EscolmePublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408179687
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. It argues that the ways in which today's popular and theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can distort our understanding of early modern drama and theatre. It argues that permitting the excesses of the early modern drama onto the contemporary stage might free actors and audiences alike from assumptions that in order to engage with the drama of the past, its characters must be just like us. The book deals with characters in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries who are sad for too long, or angry to the point of irrationality; people who laugh when they shouldn't or make their audiences do so; people whose selfhood has broken down into an excess of fragmentary extremes and who are labelled mad. It is about moments in the theatre when excessive emotion is rewarded and applauded - and about moments when the expression of emotion is in excess of what is socially acceptable: embarrassing, shameful, unsettling or insane. The book explores the broader cultures of emotion that produce these theatrical moments, and the theatre's role in regulating and extending the acceptable expression of emotion. It is concerned with the acting of excessive emotion and with acting emotion excessively. And it asks how these excesses are produced or erased, give pleasure or pain, in versions of early modern drama in theatre, film and television today. Plays discussed include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Spanish Tragedy, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, and Coriolanus.
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Author: Francis Meres