Tag: Folger Shakespeare Library
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Three Galas and a Photo Op
We are fond of galas, especially ones where we (or our hosts) have our own tables and, therefore, we can chat with our friends (or make new ones). We are less fond of photo ops, but they can sometimes be entertaining, generally for reasons other than the actual photo op itself. April/May have been a…
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Sense and Sensibility (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Our daughter and I attended the Folger Shakespeare Library production of “Sense and Sensibility” last night. (Jim is, to put it in an understated way, not a devotee of Jane Austen, describing her works as nothing but “yakety yak”). Needless to say, he was not invited to come to the play. Adaptations of Jane Austen’s…
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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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Folger Shakespeare Library London Board meeting
I am on the Board of Governors of the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Folger decided to have its June board meeting in London this year. The Board meeting itself was held at the British Library and quite productive. (Or, rather, getting to know the other Board members and the senior staff better was extremely…
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Folger Shakespeare gala April 2016
The Folger Shakespeare Library has the world’s largest collection of First Folios, the first publication of Shakespeare’s plays. (They are stored in a huge vault, which is way cool to visit.) It is an organization that provides scholarly resources for academic research, concerts and plays, and education curricula for K-12 teachers. One of its missions—and…