Word: folios
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...know what William Shakespeare looked like: similar to a hippie uncle - balding, moustached, longish hair in back. How do we know? Mostly from an engraving by Martin Droeshout that appeared with the First Folio, the collection of Shakespeare's work that was published in 1623, seven years after his death. That engraving is reproduced with almost every edition of Shakespeare that offers a picture...
...harder for later scholars to reconstruct his oeuvre. There were several attempts in the 20th century to put together his complete works, all of them failures. Shakespeare had a definitive anthology only seven years after he died, when his friends published what became known as the First Folio, giving scholars centuries to study and interpret his work. To do the same for Middleton, Taylor and co. had to start from scratch, first picking through the writer's 30-year career to figure out which works were his, then making sense of the cultural references that run through almost every line...
...Layla and Majnun” books, two of which are Persian. The most compelling part of the collection, the books attest to the value of the exhibit as living history. “Layla and Majnun Embracing Surrounded by Wild Animals” is a 16th century Iranian folio that features a bold orange illustration of the lovers and artfully arranged text spanning across the book’s center. Colorful as any children’s book today, another book’s illustration, “Majnun Visits the Ka’aba,” features Majnun...
...Consider that courthouse auction. When a homeowner loses a house to foreclosure, the property is publicly auctioned on the county courthouse steps in an atmosphere that's often chaotic and crowded with lawyers, bank representatives and onlookers. A folio number is called and the bidding begins. Within a minute, the whole thing is over and the house has a new owner, who has to pay for his purchase with cash, sometimes...
Other scholars will no doubt snicker at Greer's theories - particularly her final assertion that Anne financed the posthumous publishing of Shakespeare's "First Folio," which included 36 plays, 18 of which had not been published before, like The Tempest and Macbeth. But Greer's conjecture, founded on careful research, probably contains more truth than the commonly accepted prejudice does. The poet of marriage may very well have understood what his wife endured, and her devotion to him: "In his plays women are shown time and time again to be constant in love through months and years of separation," Greer...