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The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios

Autor Eric Rasmussen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – oct 2011
The first edition of Shakespeare's collected works, the First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the most valuable books in the world and has historically proven to be an attractive target for thieves. Of the 160 First Folios listed in a census of 1902, 14 were subsequently stolen-and only two of these were ever recovered. In his efforts to catalog all these precious First Folios, renowned Shakespeare scholar Eric Rasmussen embarked on a riveting journey around the globe, involving run-ins with heavily tattooed criminal street gangs in Tokyo, bizarre visits with eccentric, reclusive billionaires, and intense battles of wills with secretive librarians. He explores the intrigue surrounding the Earl of Pembroke, arguably Shakespeare's boyfriend, to whom the First Folio is dedicated and whose personal copy is still missing. He investigates the uncanny sequence of events in which a wealthy East Coast couple drowned in a boating accident and the next week their First Folio appeared for sale in Kansas. We hear about Folios that were censored, the pages ripped out of them, about a volume that was marked in red paint-or is it blood?-on every page; and of yet another that has a bullet lodged in its pages. Part literary detective story, part Shakespearean lore, The Shakespeare Thefts will charm the Bard's many fans.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230109414
ISBN-10: 0230109411
Pagini: 212
Dimensiuni: 145 x 208 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface A Literary Detective Story

One The Most Hated Man in England: The Gondomar Copy

Two First Folio Hunters

Three A Cuban Fraud: The Durham University Copy

Four The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

Five Unrecovered: The Manchester University Copy

Six The Pope's Sticky Fingers

Seven A Close Personal Relationship: The Pembroke Copies

Eight Nationalism, Bullets, and a Recovered Treasure

Nine The Bibliomaniac: The Sir Thomas Phillipps Copy

Ten Looking into Shakespeare's Eyes

Eleven Fell in the Weeping Brook: The Fiske Harris Copy

Twelve Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden

Thirteen The King's Companion: Royalist Copies, Puritan Copies

Fourteen Obsessed

Fifteen A Literary Thief, a Bootlegger, a Shoe Salesman, and Hitler: The Williams College Copy

Sixteen Why Is The Whore of Babylon Well Thumbed?

Seventeen Alienated: The Hereford Cathedral Copy

Eighteen Creative Control

Nineteen 'Purloined & Embezzled': The William Beeston Copy

Twenty The World's Worst Stolen Treasure

Appendix The Making of the Shakespeare First Folio

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Recenzii

'Detailed, humorous and absolutely fascinating, this is an impressive piece of detective work, a startling insight into human covetousness, and a delicious slice of Shakespearean lore.' - The Good Book Guide

Notă biografică

Eric Rasmussen is department chair and professor of English at the University of Nevada. He is co-editor of the RSC Complete Works of William Shakespeare, the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama, and of the works of Christopher Marlowe in the Oxford World's Classics series as well as individual plays in the Arden Shakespeare series, the Revels Plays series, and the Malone Society series. Since 1997, he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for Shakespeare Survey. He lives in Reno, Nevada.

Caracteristici

Eric Rasmussen is recognized as one of the world's leading Shakespeare scholars. His name is on virtually every respectable edition of Shakespeare's works, all of which received critical acclaim
Rasmussen is working on a book that catalogues all known copies of the First Folio worldwide (to be published in 2011). This research has yielded a wealth of previously unknown information about stolen First Folios over the course of four centuries, and has led to countless adventures around the globe, described in this book
One of the most sensational recent cases of a retrieved stolen Folio was at the center of arecent trial against the eccentric art thief who claimed he bought the Folio in good faith from one of Fidel Castro's body guards. Rasmussen was called as an expert witness for this trial