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...Philip Ben Greet and his Company of English players will give, at the invitation of the Department of English, two productions in Sanders Theatre this winter, it was announced yesterday by F. C. Packard Jr. '20, Professor of Public Speaking. The first quarto of "Hamlet" will be given on Monday, January 12, and on Tuesday, January 13 "As You Like It" will be presented...
Greet and his players gave "Everyman" in the Sanders Theatre in 1903 and a series of open sir Shakespearean performances on one of the University lawns in 1904. This year he has been touring the United States with his company and last spring played the first quarto of "Hamlet" in San Francisco before an enthusiastic audience...
Among the items, once the property of bewhiskered, un-Big Businesslike Mr. Folger, are: the only known copy of the first collected edition of Shakespeare's works; a copy of Titus Andronicus published in 1594; many an early quarto; one of the three existing copies of the second edition of Hamlet* Amherst's Board of Trustees will administer the $10,000,000 fund, for which service the college will receive $250,000. When the Memorial is completed. Amherst's trustees will take whatever steps seem necessary to finance Shakespearean investigation and disseminate knowledge of Shakespeare...
...White gift to Harvard consisted mainly of Shakespearean quartos, of which Mr. White had a very fine collection. The greatest collections of Shakespearean quartos are in English libraries, such as the British Museum. Even in this country, however, Harvard does not hold first place. The best authority in this field is the book compiled by Bartlett and Pollard, "A Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto." This census of quartos, published by the Elizabethan Club at Yale, again indicates the superiority of the H. C. Folger collection. Out of a total of 886 quartos described in detail, Mr. Folger owns...
Byron?Waltz (quarto edition...