Category: Shakespeare
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Book review: The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays
The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio by Andrea Mays My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Folger Shakespeare Library (located in Washington, DC) has the world’s largest collection of First Folios (the original compilation of Shakespeare’s plays). To explain how the largest collection of the world’s greatest English…
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William, Victor (sort of), Charles and Peter
This past holiday break has allowed us to do some things that we don’t normally have time to do (like seeing 3-hour movies, but I digress). There were several productions that we saw that we very much liked. The first is the Shakespeare Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Harman Hall stage resulted in a…
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
We saw Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC on Friday. We have been season ticket holders for over 10 years. Our philosophy on the Shakespeare Theatre season is that we go to the Shakespeare plays, but we are hit-and-miss on the non-Shakespeare plays. Plays by playwrights such as George Bernard Shaw…