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Louis Marder Shakespeare Centre Scholarship 2015
Are you studying Shakespeare at college, university, or for leisure? Are you going to be using the archives or library of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust? You might be interested in ...

Henry Folger’s British-Born Vicar, S. Parkes Cadman
Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman is high on the list of notables born in the town of Wellington, Shropshire in the West Midlands. After having worked ten years as a ...

Sidney Lee, Henry Folger, and the First Folio
Sidney Lee né Solomon Lazarus Lee in London in 1859 was a biographer and Shakespearean scholar. He edited the Dictionary of National Biography to which he contributed over 800 articles. ...

Bonds Between Frank Salisbury and the Henry Folgers
In 1926, the reserved Henry Clay Folger (1857–1930), CEO at Standard Oil Company of New York, uncharacteristically resolved to have large twin oil portraits made of him and his wife, ...

A Look Back and a Look Forward – Three Years of Shakespeare Calling
A Look Back and a Look Forward: Three Years of Shakespeare Calling By Ruby Jand It is now more than a month since I wrote anything for Shakespeare Calling, ...

Shakespeare in Gyula
While my colleagues of the Shakespeare on the Road venture are hurtling round a series of Shakespeare festivals in the New World – I hope to join them on the ...

Notes from the Crescent City: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Katrina and Jazz
The undeniable spirit of New Orleans has infused our four days here with a beat all of its own. From our first evening when we took our eye-opening walk down ...

63 Days, 38 Performances …
Arrived in New Orleans the other night after 600 mile drive from an unexpected stop in the unexpectedly delightful St. Genevieve, MO. A gumbo dinner and good night’s sleep later ...