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...expanding their library, which according to HCL has swelled to some 5,500 letters and manuscripts; 5,000 prints, drawings and objects; and 4,000 volumes. Although Johnson’s writing are at its center, the collection also includes a multitude of other works, such as a Hamlet quarto and an extensive body of Oscar Wilde materials...
...also might have inspired the character of Jimmy Fallon, Peter’s teenage son, who is applying to Harvard as his father scours the campus for the old Shakespeare quarto. By the book’s epilogue, Jimmy Fallon is a freshman in Hollis—Dan Martin’s former dorm...
Harvard Yard follows generations of the fictional Wedge family from 1636 to the present day as they guard a missing Shakespeare play, Love's Labours Won. The novel postulates that William Shakespeare gave Robert Harvard a handwritten quarto. Harvard is the father of John, and thus the play—and the novel’s setting—make their way to a fledgling New England college. The play falls into the hands of one of Harvard’s first students, Isaac Wedge...
That peremptory statement is the introduction to one of the year's most intriguing books, a $4 quarto-sized paperback that, mainly by word of mouth, has become an underground bestseller...
...taken the suggestion of several critics in moving the "To be or not to be" speech and the ensuing Nunnery Scene to an earlier spot right after the Fishmonger Scene--thus following the highly abridged First Quarto of 1603 rather than the fuller Second Quarto or First Folio. Even so, Coe placed Shakespeare's most famous soliloquy after the Nunnery Scene, and in fact makes it a part of the discourses. Thus it is no longer a solioquy, but is addressed directly to Ophelia, to whom Hamlet gives his dagger while speaking it. I suppose that this...