![]() ![]() Other featured books include an edition of “King Lear,” printed in 1904 in East Aurora, New York, by Roycroft, a community that was part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States. “Shakespeare wrote, staged and performed his plays for the so-called ‘groundlings,’ not just for an elite of connoisseurs or scholars.” “When you see it, you’ll understand that Shakespeare was, and remains, ‘the people’s playwright,” said Ferri, referring to the layout of the theater, where viewers who couldn’t afford a seat on elevated levels nonetheless had the closest view of the stage. “Despite some inaccuracies, it was the first systematic attempt to re-create in detail the building in which Shakespeare’s plays were produced,” said Laurent Ferri, Curator of pre-1800 Collections. These include a miniature model of the Globe Theatre made in 1935 by John Cranford Adam, a professor of English literature at Cornell. The one-day showcase also features three later editions of the Shakespeare’s folios, all published in the 1600s, along with related artifacts in the library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. “We wanted the Cornell community to have the chance to see and learn from the library’s rare Shakespeare volumes up close.” “Students and scholars are still learning about the editing and printing of Shakespeare’s plays by studying these volumes, hundreds of years after they were first produced,” she said. ![]() Stern ’56 Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts. “The 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s collected plays offers us a welcome opportunity to bring this special 1623 volume out of the rare book vault,” said Katherine Reagan, the library’s Ernest L. in the lecture room on level 2B of Carl A. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of this fateful collection of plays known as the First Folio, Cornell University Library is displaying its copy at a special one-day event, “Shakespeare’s First Folio at 400: A ‘Pop-Up’ Showcase,” on April 21 from 1 to 5 p.m. Drawing on reflections and quotes from Islamic scholar and mystic Jalal al-Din Rūmi and the father of the Japanese chanoyu (the tea ceremony) Sen no Rikyu, Islam reveals how a passage from a play which is over 400 years old might say something about mindfulness in the present moment.A world without “Macbeth,” “Twelfth Night,” “The Tempest” or “Julius Caesar”? Half of William Shakespeare’s dramatic works – including these four – would have been lost forever if it weren’t for the posthumous publication of his collected plays in 1623, in which 18 appeared in print for the first time. ![]() In an essay which takes us from the Roman Empire to Robben Island prison, Islam shows us how much a short speech from early in the play can teach us about humanity and every day life. ![]() It's a speech which he says is full of masterful language, can leave us with surprising take-homes about everyday life, and has a fascinating performance history. This time, the author, curator and broadcaster Professor Islam Issa chooses a speech from Act 2, Scene 2 of Julius Caesar. 400 years after the publication of William Shakespeare's First Folio, five writers are each asked to pick a speech from one of the Folio's plays, tell it what they think it means, and what it means to them. ![]()
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