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As part of the events in 2016 surrounding the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, Dialogue host Marcia Franklin talks with Professor Eric Rasmussen of the University of Nevada, Reno. Rasmussen, the chair of the English department at UNR, is a pre-eminent Shakespeare scholar and an expert on the First Folio, which was published in 1623 and includes almost all of the Bard of Avon's plays. Rasmussen, also the author of a 1000-page catalog called The Shakespeare First Folio, worked with a team to locate 232 surviving copies of the First Folio, 72 more than were originally thought to exist. An estimated 800 were originally printed. There are now 235 known copies. The group went on to painstakingly document the condition of every page of as many copies as it could examine. Rasmussen is also the author of The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios, in which he includes some of the more colorful stories surrounding the various copies of the 900-plus page book, both ones that have been found and those that are still missing. Franklin talks with the professor about his interest in the First Folio, how he authenticates the new copies he finds, some of the unique aspects of the books, what he's learned studying them, and what he thinks about the various authorship theories regarding Shakespeare's works. The interview took place at the Humanities Institute at Boise State University, one of 52 locations in the United States chosen by the Folger Shakespeare Library to display the First Folio in 2016. Originally Aired: 09/09/2016
In this special year-in-review episode, Carol and Jeevan are joined by their producer Kylé to share some of their favourite From Here Forward moments from 2024. Find out which conversations inspired them, changed their perspectives, and even drove them to change their decision-making. Enjoy this fun throwback to the year that was.FEATURED EPISODES● Episode 16: Finding Hope in Climate Activism with Abul Bashar● Episode 12: Risky Genes: Uncovering the Genetic Basis of Breast and Ovarian Cancers with Dr. Steven Narod● Episode 11: Wildfires, climate change, and the future of forest management with Dr.Lori Daniels● Episode 17: Bringing a start-up mentality to environmental conservation with Dax Dasilva● Episode 15: Reimagining the dating experience for Gen Z with Connor Rose● Episode 19: The Bard goes digital: Emerging technologies and Shakespeare's First Folio with Dr. Pennefather● Episode 23: What's at Stake in the 2024 US Elections with Paul Quirk● Episode 13: Sipping, Savouring, and Safeguarding BC WineLINKS● Stories of Change Film (Bashar's Documentary)● Join the alumni UBC Wine club
When UBC acquired a copy of Shakespeare's First Folio in 2021, it was only the first step in an initiative to digitize and improve access to this historic text. In this episode, hosts Carol and Jeevan speak to Dr. Patrick Parra Pennefather, Assistant Professor at UBC Theatre and Film in the Faculty of Arts, about why this acquisition was so important to the university and how emerging technologies including touch tables, mixed reality, and generative AI are enhancing users' interactions with the folio and interpretations of Shakespeare's work.LinksUBC Profile: Dr. Patrick PennefatherDr. Patrick Pennefather: Website The Shakespeare First Folio | UBC Emerging Media Lab | UBC Twitter/X: Carol / JeevanCheck out our full archive of episodes here
This month we have two special cases on display on Level 2 of Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero | Central City Library both with Shakespeare at the heart. In this track listen and learn from Rare Book curator Jane Wild as she tells us about the items on display for May. Event: Register to attend this event Saturday 20 May https://ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/events/2023/05/piringatahi-special-collections-up-close-rare-shakespeare/ In this Piringatahi: Special Collections Up Close event, we delve into the 17th-century publishing history of Shakespeare's plays. Auckland Libraries is the only institution in the Southern Hemisphere to hold copies of all four 17th-century editions of Shakespeare's collected plays and early editions of his sonnets. Find out more about Folio 400 here: https://folio400.com/ A more in-depth read here: http://heritageetal.blogspot.com/2023/05/readers-and-readings-traces-of-use-in.html Check out the playlist Shakespeare First Folio. Come see for yourself Kura Tūturu | Real Gold case in the Reading Room Level 2 Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero | Central City Library. Music Credit: Seringapatam composed by Bruce Paine played by Chris Everest at Auckland Libraries Heritage Concert 2023 Image Credit: The Real Gold case photo by Jane Wild. 2023.
In this episode, Professor Emma Smith talks about her podcast *Approaching Shakespeare* and her wonderful books *This is Shakespeare*, *Shakespeare's First Folio*, and *Portable Magic*.Her podcast can be accessed from here: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/approaching-shakespeareFor a complete episode transcript, check out http://www.womenandshakespeare.com Interviewer: Varsha PanjwaniGuest: Emma SmithProducer: Peyton HarmonTranscript: Benjamin PooreArtwork: Wenqi WanTwitter: @earlymoderndoc Insta: earlymoderndocEmail: earlymoderndoc@gmail.com
As part of the events in 2016 surrounding the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, Dialogue host Marcia Franklin talks with Professor Eric Rasmussen of the University of Nevada, Reno. Rasmussen, the chair of the English department at UNR, is a pre-eminent Shakespeare scholar and an expert on the First Folio, which was published in 1623 and includes almost all of the Bard of Avon's plays. Rasmussen, also the author of a 1000-page catalog called The Shakespeare First Folio, worked with a team to locate 232 surviving copies of the First Folio, 72 more than were originally thought to exist. An estimated 800 were originally printed. There are now 235 known copies. The group went on to painstakingly document the condition of every page of as many copies as it could examine. Rasmussen is also the author of The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios, in which he includes some of the more colorful stories surrounding the various copies of the 900-plus page book, both ones that have been found and those that are still missing. Franklin talks with the professor about his interest in the First Folio, how he authenticates the new copies he finds, some of the unique aspects of the books, what he's learned studying them, and what he thinks about the various authorship theories regarding Shakespeare's works. The interview took place at the Humanities Institute at Boise State University, one of 52 locations in the United States chosen by the Folger Shakespeare Library to display the First Folio in 2016. Originally Aired: 09/09/2016
With the news of Christie's selling an original Shakespeare First Folio for $10 Million, Travis, James and Kevin are discussing antique books! What are the factors that make an antique book valuable, and are they worth collecting in 2020? Handwritten manuscripts and Gutenberg Bibles are more commonly discussed in this world, but what about rare limited edition Harry Potter books? Travis has many questions on his quest to become a better reader. Hosted by Travis Landry, James Supp and Kevin Bruneau
Hidden away and forgotten by most of the people of Birmingham is the world's first great Shakespeare library. It is one of the city’s best kept secrets, known only to a few academics, here and overseas. But when it first opened its doors to the people of Birmingham in 1868, the Shakespeare Memorial Library was the envy of the world, which looked to Birmingham as the home of a comprehensive ‘Civic Gospel’. This was the concrete expression of the vision of George Dawson (1821-1876) – Birmingham’s forgotten philosopher-prophet. And the Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library is one of its most important surviving legacies. Dawson conceived of a library where the Bard and his works would belong to every citizen, not just a cultured elite or academia. Paid for by public subscription, this world-class collection includes more than 40,000 volumes – among them the only Shakespeare First Folio in the world bought as part of a vision of comprehensive (including working-class) education. And it still belongs to the people of Birmingham. Hear more about this wonderful fruit of George Dawson’s vision for Birmingham as a world-leading modern city in this second of two podcasts by Shakespeare scholar, Professor Ewan Fernie of the University of Birmingham, in discussion with Mike Gibbs, publisher of History West Midlands. In partnership with Tom Epps of Birmingham City Council and institutions across and beyond Birmingham, Fernie is now developing a Heritage Lottery Fund project to revive Birmingham's forgotten Shakespeare Library with people and communities across the city. To learn more about the 'Everything to Everybody' Project please click below: Keywords: Shakespeare, George Dawson, Library, Civic Gospel, The Bard, Birmingham, Professor Ewan Fernie
“The fraud of men was ever so / Since summer first was leafy” — Balthasar’s song, Much Ado About Nothing In episode six, we look at that vexing question of whether or not Will Shakespeare was a complete and utter conman. We’ll follow those who dug up rivers, cracked codes, turned to grave-robbing, or occasionally just wrote really, really long books to find the answer. We’ll hear from Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, William Wordsworth, and learn some surprising theories as to why Queen Elizabeth I was the Virgin Queen (or was she…?). It’s a journey from the 1560s to our era and back again, and somehow I manage to bring up Golden Girls, England’s greatest treasure hunt, George W. Bush and Dame Agatha Christie! Confused? You still will be after listening, but I hope you’ll enjoy this incredibly long investigation of the madness that is the authorship question. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, or by email at podcastshakespeare@gmail.com. You can listen to the podcast at iTunes or download direct from Libsyn. We also have a Spotify playlist, which will be updated each week as we work through the plays. The website for the podcast is https://podcastshakespeare.com/. On the website, you will find an evolving bibliography. Contents 00:00 - Introduction / searching for Shakespeare 09:33 - Delia Bacon / candidate Sir Francis Bacon 24:50 - Mark Twain / Ignatius Donnelly, codebreaker 35:05 - Dr. Owen's machine / Mrs. Gallup and Mr. Arensberg 41:45 - J. Thomas Looney / candidate Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford 1:04:40 - Other candidates / Christopher Marlowe 1:09:35 - Oxford gets another chance / "Anonymous" 1:13:41 - The "Masquerade" connection 1:18:49 - William Shakespeare 1:37:38 - The enduring appeal of theories / My theories 1:47:15 - The "Declaration of Reasonable Doubt" / hail and farewell Links mentioned: Due to the nature of the episode, I have done a separate permanent Authorship page at https://podcastshakespeare.com/further-reading/the-authorship-question/. Some links below. SIR FRANCIS BACON (1561 – 1626) on Wikipedia John Aubrey’s biography and details of his death in Brief Lives (1693) The Francis Bacon Society (“Baconiana”) Supporters of Bacon Delia Salter Bacon (1811 – 1859): at Wikipedia “William Shakespeare and His Plays: An Enquiry Concerning Them” in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine of American literature, science and art, Issue 37, January 1856 The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded, 1857 Nina Baym, “Delia Bacon: Hawthorne’s Last Heroine“ Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Recollections of a Gifted Woman” in The Atlantic Monthly, January 1863 Ralph Waldo Emerson, unpublished letter to George P. Putnam regarding Delia Bacon, published by Vivian C. Hopkins in the New England Quarterly, vol 33 no 4, Dec 1960 (JSTOR access required) Catherine E. Beecher, Truth Stranger than Fiction (1850) comments on the Bacon/MacWhorter affair without using names Walt Whitman,“Shakespeare Bacon’s Cipher” Ignatius Donnelly, The Great Cryptogram (1888) Elizabeth Ward Gallup: The Bi-Lateral Cypher (1910) The Tragedy of Anne Boleyn, being a discovery of the ciphered play of Sir Francis Bacon inside the Shakespeare First Folio (1911) [see also, this article on the play at Anne Boleyn Novels] Dr. Orville Ward Owen, Sir Francis Bacon’s Cipher Story (1893-95) Mark Twain, Is Shakespeare Dead? (1909) Henry W. Fisher, Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field, Tales they told to a fellow correspondent, (1922) – see page 49 for Twain and Fisher’s anecdote Queen Elizabeth being a man. Walter Conrad Arensberg: The Cryptography of Shakespeare -(1922) see also The Cryptography of Dante – (1921) EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL OF OXFORD (1550 – 1604) at Wikipedia Poems at Wikisource Family tree and the famous fart anecdote of James Aubrey “Renunciation” poem from Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, ed. Francis T. Palgrave, 1875 Supporters of Oxford John Thomas Looney (1870 – 1944) at Wikipedia The Church of Humanity Shakespeare Identified in Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1920) The De Vere Society of Great Britain The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Why I Became an Oxfordian at the “Shakespeare Authorship Sourcebook” Charlton Ogburn: The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth and the Reality (1984) “The Man Who Shakespeare Was Not (and who he was)“, Harvard Magazine, November 1974 Michael Brame and Galina Propova, Shakespeare’s Fingerprints (2002), discussed in Washington University News, January 23, 2003 Percy Allen, Life Story of Edward De Vere (1932) Trailer for Anonymous, directed by Roland Emmerich (2011) GENERAL DOUBT The Declaration of Reasonable Doubt Hester Dowden, the medium who apparently confirmed both Bacon and Oxford had written the plays, at different times – at Wikipedia. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564 – 1616) The First Folio at the Bodleian online Shakespeare suing for minor debts – at ShakespeareDocumented.org The Shakespeare Authorship Page – a vital resource David Kathman: “Why I Am Not An Oxfordian“, originally published in The Elizabethan Review, at the Shakespeare Authorship Page “Shakespeare’s Eulogies“ at the Shakespeare Authorship Page “Dating the Tempest“ “How We Know That Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare: The Historical Facts“ with Tom Reedy James Shapiro, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (2010) Irvin Leigh Matus, “The Case for Shakespeare“, The Atlantic, October 1991 Samuel Schoenbaum, Shakespeare’s Lives, 1970 William F. Friedman & Elizebeth Smith Friedman: Wikipedia: He | She The Shakespeare Ciphers Examined, Cambridge, 1957 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men – chapter 6 “Shakespeare or the Poet” (1850) Terry Ross, “The Code that Failed: Testing a Bacon-Shakespeare Cipher“ at The Shakespeare Authorship Page Don Foster: Elegy for WS, reviewed in The Observer, June 2002 The moot trials of Shakespeare: 1987 trial – at PBS 1987 trial – the New York Times A 1993 trial at the Boston American Bar Association – at PBS Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, The Survival of Manuscripts, from Elizabethan Handwriting, 1500-1650: A Manual, W.W. Norton & Co, 1966 at The Shakespeare Authorship Site Muriel St Clare Byrne, “The Social Background“, in A Companion to Shakespeare Studies, page 190, edited by Harley Granville Barker and G.B Harrison (1934) William Wordsworth, Scorn not the Sonnet (c. 1807) Robert Browning, House (1876) Robert Bell Wheler: Historical Account of the Birth Place of Shakespeare (1806) CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564 – 1593) Marlovian theory of authorship MISCELLANEOUS CANDIDATES Wikipedia’s list of 87 (at July 2018) Robert Frazer, Silent Shakespeare (1915) PDF Gilbert Slater, The Seven Shakespeares (1913) Michaelangelo Florio, aka Crollalanza Roger Manners, Earl of Rutland, in Claud Walter Skyes’ Alias William Shakespeare, Aldor, 1947 Henry Neville, a very peculiar theory – with Tom Veal’s response OTHER LINKS QUOTED Catullus, Poem 5 Kit Williams’ Masquerade John Keats’ Lamia Aeschylus’ Eumenides Clips: Sergei Prokofiev, “Montagues and Capulets”, from Romeo and Juliet (ballet), 1935 Franz Schubert, Im Fruhling, D.882 performed by Barbara Hendricks Gerald Finzi, Love’s Labour’s Lost, op. 28: Dance, Aurora Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon Gaetano Donizetti, Overture to Roberto Devereux (feat. God Save the Queen), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras John Dowland, Galliard for the Queen and Robert Dudley Hakan Parkman, “Take, O Take These Lips Away” (Madrigal) from 3 Shakespeare Songs, sung by Singer Pur choir “Bonny Peggy Ramsey” (traditional) performed by Tom Kines on Songs from Shakespeare’s Plays and Popular Songs of Shakespeare’s Time Ambroise Thomas, Hamlet (1868), 1994 recording, London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Antonio de Almeida: Thomas Hampson (Hamlet) – singing part of his “Doubt not that I love” letter June Anderson (Ophélie) – Ophélie’s mad scene and death, Act IV
Join us at Lost the Plot for all things books. This month we talk copyright controversy, free books, book awards and May reads. Links: Shakespeare First Folio http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3609165/Shakespeare-First-Folio-fetches-2-75-million-auction.html Winnie The Pooh's 90th Birthday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2tSqyVJC7M Future Library Project - David Mitchell https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/30/david-mitchell-buries-latest-manuscript-for-a-hundred-years International Man Booker Prize https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/16/man-booker-international-prize-serves-up-victory-to-the-vegetarian-han-kang-deborah-smith Nebula Awards http://io9.gizmodo.com/women-swept-the-2015-the-nebula-awards-1776706665 Allie Brosch's New Book http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/touchstone-to-publish-a-new-allie-brosch-book/119879 Neil Gaiman's New Book http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2016/05/finishing-things.html Breaking the Boundaries http://www.musecanberra.com.au/events/2016/5/13/book-launch-breaking-the-boundaries Towel Day http://www.towelday.org/ Towel Day Game https://apps.facebook.com/survive-forty-two/ Productivity Commission's Report http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/current/intellectual-property/draft Book Copyright http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/productivity-commission-calls-for-free-import-of-books-copyright-shakeup-20160428-goh806.html Book Copyright Interview http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/the-productivity-commission/7388204 Book Copyright - Tim Winton http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/tim-winton-condemns-government-plans-for-a-new-colonial-era-of-publishing-20160520-goze2o.html Book Copyright - Open Letter by Jackie French http://www.harpercollins.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Open-Letter-from-Jackie-French.pdf Free Comic Book Day http://www.freecomicbookday.com/Home/1/1/27/992 Free Comics https://impactcomics.comicretailer.com/Free-Comics/page/175 Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ Redditgifts www.redditgifts.com Tinted Edges Book Blog http://tintededges.wordpress.com
This week, Jeff and Amanda talk a recovered Shakespeare First Folio, staying in Elsinore for ten bucks, Lena Dunham's new imprint, and much more. This episode is sponsored by Casper Mattresses and The Nutmeg Tree by Margery Sharp (which you can for free by clicking this link right here).