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| Title: | The book of William : how Shakespeare's first folio conquered the world / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Collins |
| ISBN: | 9781596911956 (hardcover); 1596911956 (hardcover) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-243). Content: Act I : New Bond Street, London -- Barbican and Aldersgate, London -- St. Paul's Churchyard, London -- New Bond Street, London -- Act II : Hampstead Heath, London -- Catherine Street, London -- 17 Gough Square, London -- Staple Inn, High Holborn, London -- Act III : Charing Cross, London -- High Halden, Kent -- Kensal Green Cemetery, London -- Act IV : East Capitol Street, Washington, D.C. -- Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. -- Level C, Folger Shakespeare Library -- Act V : The Globe Theatre, Shin-Okubo, Shinjuku Ward -- Shinjuku Ward, Tokoyo -- Meisei University, Hino, Tokoyo -- Shinjuku Metro Promenade, Tokoyo. |
| Description: | viii, 246 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Act I : New Bond Street, London -- Barbican and Aldersgate, London -- St. Paul's Churchyard, London -- New Bond Street, London -- Act II : Hampstead Heath, London -- Catherine Street, London -- 17 Gough Square, London -- Staple Inn, High Holborn, London -- Act III : Charing Cross, London -- High Halden, Kent -- Kensal Green Cemetery, London -- Act IV : East Capitol Street, Washington, D.C. -- Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. -- Level C, Folger Shakespeare Library -- Act V : The Globe Theatre, Shin-Okubo, Shinjuku Ward -- Shinjuku Ward, Tokoyo -- Meisei University, Hino, Tokoyo -- Shinjuku Metro Promenade, Tokoyo. |
| Responsibility: | Paul Collins. |
| Named Person: | Shakespeare, William, |
| Year: | 2009. |
| Publisher: | New York : Bloomsbury, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 2009006722 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: Z8813 PR2888; Dewey No.: 016.8223/3; Dewey No.: 820.8003 |
| OCLC No.: | 310224906 |
Abstract:
One book above all others has transfixed connoisseurs for four centuries--a book sold for shillings in the streets of London, whisked to Manhattan for millions, and stored deep within the vaults of Tokyo. The book: William Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623. This "travelogue" follows the trail of the Folio's remarkable journey and Shakespeare's cross-cultural future as Asian buyers enter their Folios into the electronic ether.
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