Congratulations on it. Guest thank you. Coming for me thats praise indeed traded. Host you are kind indeed. Talk about the subtitle in your book if i may quote henry folgers obsessive hunt for shakespeares first folio. I think it might be helpful originally to talk about these two men the context of their times. Of course they were defying me two men both alike in dignity to quote from shakespeare but separated by 400 years and the Atlantic Ocean very different that they shared one thing, a shakespeare wrote his plays seven years after he died. Two of his friends decided to create a memorial volume to him and collected all of that they had available and published 36 have been known 38 plays that shakespeare had written and the two men are connected across time and across the ocean and its the book that saved half of shakespeares plays from obscurity became a fetish object for collectors and henry folger chairman of the Editorial Company wanted to own every known copy of his first olio.
To talk about the two men in the context of their times. Of course they were two men both alike in dignity and yet separated by 400 years in the atlantic ocean. But they shared one thing, a passion for collect the good but to put them in the context of their lives if you lead, please. Sure, shakespeare was writing around the 1600s. His life was 20 years before, 20 years after the 1600. During the reign of elizabeth and james the first he was a wellknown playwright poet. He wrote sonnet and he was also a businessman. He was a shareholder in london and land owner very wellknown known is time for being a playwright and businessmen. Henry folger was the chairman of the board of the Largest Corporation in the world at the time as well during the gilded age. Shakespeare wrote these plays years after he died two of his friends decided to create a memorial volume and collected all of the 36 nodes 38 00 p. M. The two men are connect to across time and notion in the book is saved from obscurity
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Weekends Television Schedule visit us online at booktv. Org. Stephen grant talks about henry and emily folger, a collection of shakespeare books and manuscripts they started collecting in 1885 and creation of the Folger Shakespeare library. This was toasted by politics and prose bookstore in washington d. C. Is just under an hour. Thank you, justin, and thank you, politics and prose. Authors are so lucky politics and prose is here for them. Biographers seek to capture a life. In this case it was two lives. I rode the dual biography of henry and emily hamlet. A couple from brooklyn. Henry and Emily Norton Folger were born in the 1850s when Many American families have only two books in their library. The bible and shakespeare. They died childless in the 1930s. I searched in vain for someone who remembered them. The closest i got was an octogenarian who had attended the dedication of the Folger Library in 1932 on shakespeares birthday in presence of president and mrs. Herbert hoover. Id b
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