Word: shakespeariana
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Examination of the gift disclosed 86 volumes instead of the 115 volumes catalogued in the White collection of Shakespeariana. The reduction in numbers was due to the omission by the donors of duplicate copies of certain of the works contained...
...hundred and fifteen Quarto editions of the works of Shapespeare constitute the bulk of one of the most valuable of recent gifts to Widener Library, made on Saturday. This collection, which will place the Harvard stock of Shakespeariana among the foremost in the country, comes from the library of the late William Augustus White '63, of Brooklyn, New York, as the gift of his family...
...collection will be of the greatest assistance to advanced students of the English drama, and will strengthen decidedly the position of Widener Library as a leading University library of the world. The British Museum Library, and the Henry E. Huntington Library of Los Angeles house other important collections of Shakespeariana...
...week. He seemed diverted by a drama which unfolds upon the stage the theory that that erudite Elizabethan, Francis Bacon (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans), was the real author of plays now attributed to William Shakespeare. The stalls were atwitter between the acts, as nice points of Baconiana and Shakespeariana were weighed. But while the curtain was up the gallery roared approval of a mannish, imperious Queen Elizabeth and of a Will Shakespeare who seemed but a lout of an actor and most timid and unwilling to lend his name to the immortal works of lordly Francis Bacon...