Word: folios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think. Pope Paul VI, 67, had just decided to donate his gold-and-silver, jewel-studded coronation crown (conservatively worth $12,000) to be used in a fund-raising campaign for those "who suffer misery." Now, here was English Actress Dorothy Tutin, 34, holding out a 1623 First Folio edition of William Shakespeare, after members of Britain's Royal Stratford Shakespeare Company had put on a performance in the Vatican. "What a beautiful memento of this occasion!" exclaimed the Pope, taking it and passing it to an aide. Frightfully sorry, blushed Dorothy, but please would he give it back...
...Democratic Party's convention program, probably the slickest of its kind ever run off a press. Bound in hard white linen, bordered with a tasteful gold line, and bearing about as much resemblance to the G.O.P.'s run-of-the-mill convention program as an expensive Shakespeare folio does to the program for the Slippery Rock-East Stroudsburg football game, it will be available for purchase when the Democrats convene in Atlantic City...
...opened the Reader's Guide to Shakespeare, by Alfred Harbage, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English. "Here's a new book by a very distinguished Shakespearian scholar and he says simply that no one questions the Shakespearian authorship of any of the plays in the First Folio. The only one he's not sure about is Titus Andronicus; he doesn't think it's good enough. I think he's wrong. It's very clever play--though it's not a pleasant one. But you see, 50 years ago no one would have said that...
Richard III was a smash hit from the start. The Elizabethans loved it, and it was printed several times before the 1623 folio collection. Henceforth over the centuries the title role worked as a magnet on the greatest actors more strongly than any other Shakespearean part...
...Edward IV appears in Shakespeare's first folio, and The Wars of the Roses is not found in his collected works. But both titles are prominently on display this summer at that most sanctified shrine of Shakespeariana, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford on Avon. And although Wars of the Roses is stuffed with lines that Shakespeare never wrote, it has won the unanimous praise of the London critics. "A landmark and beacon in the postwar English theater," said the Daily Mail's usually savage Bernard Levin...