Folger Shakespeare Library
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 Folger Shakespeare Library building |
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| location | Washington, DC | ||
| Coordinates | 38 ° 53 '21.7 " N , 77 ° 0' 11.4" W | ||
| Built | 1930-32 | ||
| architect | Paul Philippe Cret | ||
| NRHP number | 69000294 | ||
| The NRHP added | June 23, 1969 | ||
The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research facility on Capitol Hill , Washington, DC. It owns the world's largest collection of printed works by William Shakespeare and has an extensive collection of rare objects from the early modern period (1500–1750). The library was founded by Henry Clay Folger with his wife Emily and opened in 1932, two years after his death. The library is under the direction of Amherst College . Your building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
history
Former President of the Standard Oil of New York Henry Clay Folger (1857-1930), a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College , was an avid collector of Shakespeareana. Towards the end of the First World War, he and his wife began looking for a suitable location for his library. They chose a site near the Library of Congress . Folger acquired land over the years until he had a sufficiently large area for his project and was able to start his project after the congress had given him permission for his building project in 1928. The foundation stone was laid in 1930; Folger passed away soon after. He bequeathed his fortune, which had been diminished by the stock market crash of 1929, to Amherst College. The library opened on April 23, 1932 to commemorate Shakespeare's presumed birthday. Folger's wife, Emily, ran the foundation's affairs until shortly before her death in 1936. The library's first director from 1940 to 1946 was Joseph Quincy Adams, Jr. Since 2011, Michael Witmore, a pioneer in the digital exploration of Shakespearean texts, is the seventh director President the library.
architecture
The library building was designed by the architect Paul Philippe Cret , who also planned the headquarters of the US Federal Reserve . The white marble front is adorned with nine bas-reliefs , which are interrupted by large aluminum windows in the style of Art Deco . The interior of the building is in the Tudor style. The two reading rooms are reserved for scholars with appropriate user permission. Only the exhibition rooms and the theater are open to the public. On June 23, 1969, the Folger Shakespeare Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a monument . A second building, the Haskell Center, was built for educational purposes and opened in 2000.
collection
The collection, with its numerous objects related to Shakespeare, is best known for its 82 copies of his First Folio and its holdings of early quartos. The library has the third largest collection of English books from before 1641. There are over 250,000 books, 55,000 manuscripts (from Elizabeth I and John Donne to Mark Twain and Walt Whitman ), 250,000 programs and 50,000 paper objects (printed sheets and photographs).
activities
The Folger Shakespeare Library organizes cultural and artistic programs, including theater, concerts, exhibitions and courses. The Folger Theater offers performances of Shakespeare plays and works by his contemporaries. The Folger Consort performs old music. The annual PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction takes place in the theater hall. The Folger Institute organizes conferences, symposia, seminars, offers a summer school and publishes the journal Shakespeare Quarterly .
The Folger Shakespeare Library Editions , an illustrated series of individual editions of Shakespeare's works with general understandable comments, is published by Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine on behalf of the Folger Shakespeare Library and is published by Simon & Schuster .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Georgianna Ziegler: Duty and Enjoyment: The Folgers as Shakespeare Collectors in the Gilded Age. In: Virginia and Alden Vaughan (Eds.): Shakespeare in American Life. Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC 2007, p. 108 f .; Esther Ferington (Ed.): Infinite Variety: Exploring the Folger Shakespeare Library. Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC 2001 (Distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle), p. 16; see also Founding the Library. ( Memento from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Folger.edu .
- ↑ Kathleen Lynch: Folger, Emily Jordan. In: John Garraty, Mark Carnes (Eds.): American National Biography. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, Vol. 8, pp. 167 f .; Infinite Variety, p. 16 f.
- ^ Thomas M. Spaulding: The Literary Society in Peace and War. George Banta, Washington, DC 1947.
- ↑ Meet the Director. ( Memento from January 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Folger.edu .
- ^ Folger Shakespeare Library in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 1, 2017.
- ^ The Haskell Center for Education and Public Programs. ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Folger.edu .
- ↑ Infinite Variety, p. 95.
- ↑ Heather Wolfe (Ed.): "The Pen's Excellencie". Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC 2002 (Distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle), p. 10 for total, pp. 51, 151, 183, 196 for Elizabeth I, Donne, Twain, and Whitman.
- ^ Art. "Follower Shakespeare Library". In: New Encyclopædia Britannica. 15th edition. Vol. 4. Micropaedia, Chicago 2007; Infinite Variety, p. 95; see also The Collection. In: Folger.edu .
- ^ Helen Hayes Awards and Nominations. ( Memento from December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Folger.edu .