Folger shakespeare library. Hello, and welcome to the wonder of will live. Im Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare library, and today you are joining us on a very special day. Were broadcasting here from the historic pastor reading room where for the past 80 years scholars from around the globe have come to use the largest shakespeare collection in the world. Joining on the live feed for making it possible for shakespeare fans to enjoy this special day. Shakespeares influence goes beyond the written word, your arrival was accompanied by the folger consort. If you are interested in their music you can find it on itunes and have a look at the wonder of will room that has been created by itunes. We collect shakespeare material for everyone who wants to celebrate. Today we are here to celebrate the legacy of the worlds greatest storyteller. What better way to do that than pay tribute with stories. I am willing to bet that every one of you has a story to tell about how they g
Atlantic will take shape so our collection holds a large quantity of items that includes the moment as it comes to the United States so the colonies of jamestown. Said shakespeares world this planting itself in north america. That is complicated history also what was good and bad. When he wrote the tempest he clearly had a pamphlet about a shipwreck in bermuda but makes reference to the new world so he never visited but when he uses the phrase like a brave new world that there is someplace to overturn our expectations and that is something that is on his imagination. And from the archives to the theater. This is a copy of a copy of the Laurence Oliviers film 1945 of henry v this gives us the notes it is interesting because that was treated during the Second World War from one of the battle scenes this was viewed as a piece of propaganda of the Second World War so much of this is triumphant to the library of record store in the expression of shakespeares work is something theyre interes
Joining on the live feed for making it possible for shakespeare fans to enjoy this special day. Shakespeares influence goes beyond the written word, your arrival was accompanied by the folger consort. If you are interested in their music you can find it on itunes and have a look at the wonder of will room that has been created by itunes. We collect shakespeare material for everyone who wants to celebrate. Today we are here to celebrate the legacy of the worlds greatest storyteller. What better way to do that than pay tribute with stories. I am willing to bet that every one of you has a story to tell about how they got to know this amazing writer. 400 years ago to this very day, april 23, 1616, William Shakespeare died. The world is much larger and connected today than it was in 1616 and a lot has happened. We are still talking to shakespeare. For many it feels like he is still in the room. If you look around he is still in the room. How is it that we still have more to say about this w
But people want to spoken bitsy this isnt a bed. Its a sofa. Thats how you get, you get another 10 pages of regulations on what a bed is, right . Is true, when sabre taxes went up you had a boom in the sale of small cigars. Its a lot like cigarettes. So the question he broached, and it still unanswered, is that we built the fence sufficiently so we can ward off what we know has always come, which is some kind of financial panic. Have weedeater limited the most egregious behavior, things like the volcker rule are designed to limit activities that michael bad, or have we contended, the equivalent of the sprinklers would be capital controls. You have had more capital into Balance Sheet so when it goes bad it will go bust. Things like living wills, even if you go bust will have the documents in place the sake you would not pull the rest of us down with you. Theoretically everything doddfrank tried to do is what we need to do. I have no idea whether its going to be successful or not. I thin
Joining on the live feed for making it possible for shakespeare fans to enjoy this special day. Shakespeares influence goes beyond the written word, your arrival was accompanied by the folger consort. If you are interested in their music you can find it on itunes and have a look at the wonder of will room that has been created by itunes. We collect shakespeare material for everyone who wants to celebrate. Today we are here to celebrate the legacy of the worlds greatest storyteller. What better way to do that than pay tribute with stories. I am willing to bet that every one of you has a story to tell about how they got to know this amazing writer. 400 years ago to this very day, april 23, 1616, William Shakespeare died. The world is much larger and connected today than it was in 1616 and a lot has happened. We are still talking to shakespeare. For many it feels like he is still in the room. If you look around he is still in the room. How is it that we still have more to say about this w