Folger Library, Two Decades of Growth

Folger Library, Two Decades of Growth

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  • Author: Louis B. Wright
  • Publisher: Associated University Presse
  • ISBN: 9780918016553
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 324


The Folger Library

The Folger Library

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  • Author: Louis Booker Wright
  • Publisher: Associated University Presse
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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 330


The Millionaire and the Bard

The Millionaire and the Bard

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  • Author: Andrea Mays
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 143914124X
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 368

The miraculous and romantic story of Shakespeare’s First Folio, and of the American industrialist whose thrilling pursuit of the book became a lifelong obsession: “Mays’s narrative is so fast-moving, and peppered with such fascinating detail, it almost reads like a thriller” (Entertainment Weekly, Grade: A). When Shakespeare died in 1616, half of his plays died with him. No one—not even their author—believed that his writings would last. In 1623, seven years after his death, Shakespeare’s business partners, companions, and fellow actors gathered copies of his plays and manuscripts and published thirty-six of them. This massive book, the First Folio, was intended as a memorial to their deceased friend. They could not have known that it would become one of the most important books ever published in the English language. Over two and a half centuries later, a young man fresh out of law school, Henry Folger, bought a book at auction—a later, 1685 edition Fourth Folio, for $107.50. It was the beginning of an obsession that would consume the rest of his life. Folger rose to be president of Standard Oil, and he used his fortune to create the greatest Shakespeare collection in the world. By the time he died, Folger owned more First Folios than anyone and had founded the Folger Shakespeare Library, where his collection still resides. In The Millionaire and the Bard, Andrea Mays spins the tale of Shakespeare and of his collector, of the genius whose work we nearly lost, the men who had the foresight to preserve it, and the millionaire who, centuries later, was consumed by his obsession with it. “Effortless in its unadorned storytelling and exacting in its research, this is a page-turning detective story” (Publishers Weekly).


Making Worlds

Making Worlds

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  • Author: Angela Vanhaelen
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • ISBN: 1487544952
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 648

Taking into account the destructive powers of globalization, Making Worlds considers the interconnectedness of the world in the early modern period. This collection examines the interdisciplinary phenomenon of making worlds, with essays from scholars of history, literary studies, theatre and performance, art history, and anthropology. The volume advances questions about the history of globalization by focusing on how the expansion of global transit offered possibilities for interactions that included the testing of local identities through inventive experimentation with new and various forms of culture. Case studies show how the imposition of European economic, religious, political, and military models on other parts of the world unleashed unprecedented forces of invention as institutionalized powers came up against the creativity of peoples, cultural practices, materials, and techniques of making. In doing so, Making Worlds offers an important rethinking of how early globalization inconsistently generated ongoing dynamics of making, unmaking, and remaking worlds.


Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library

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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0


Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

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  • Author: Elizabeth Winkler
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 198217126X
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 416

"A delightful romp through the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to him became an act of blasphemy... and who the Bard might really be"--


Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship

Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship

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  • Category : Electronic journals
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 326


The Private Collector and the Support of Scholarship

The Private Collector and the Support of Scholarship

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  • Author: Louis Booker Wright
  • Publisher: Los Angeles : William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California
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  • Category : Book collectors
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 110


Beyond 1492

Beyond 1492

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  • Author: James Axtell
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0190281979
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 397

In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history. Coinciding with the 500th anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America, this collection covers a wide range of topics dealing with American history. Three essays view the invasion of North America from the perspective of the Indians, whose land it was. The very first meetings, he finds, were nearly always peaceful. Other essays describe native encounters with colonial traders--creating "the first consumer revolution"--and Jesuit missionaries in Canada and Mexico. Despite the tragedy of many of the encounters, Axtell also finds that there was much humor in Indian-European negotiations over peace, sex, and war. In the final section he conducts searching analyses of how college textbooks treat the initial century of American history, how America's human face changed from all brown in 1492 to predominantly white and black by 1792, and how we handled moral questions during the Quincentenary. He concludes with an extensive review of the Quincentenary scholarship--books, films, TV, and museum exhibits--and suggestions for how we can assimilate what we have learned.


Of Books and Men

Of Books and Men

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  • Author: Louis Booker Wright
  • Publisher: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press
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  • Category : Antiques & Collectibles
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208