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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Mays, Andrea E.
Titre(s) : The millionaire and the bard [Texte imprimé] : Henry Folger's obsessive hunt for Shakespeare's first folio / Andrea E. Mays
Édition : First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
Publication : New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvi-350 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Prologue: He was not of an age, but for all time ; The good that men do is ... interred
with their bones ; Adieu ... Remember Me ; Whatever you do, buy ; My Shakespeare,
Rise ; Had I the Money, You Would Come ... ; Had I the means, I would not hesitate
to buy ; The Most Precious Book in the World ; A Shakespeare Discovery ; Do devise
some way to get the books ; Will You Give Me the First Choice? or, The False Folio
; I am an American ; Portrait of a Collector ; Thou Art a Moniment, Without a Tombe
; It is the Key of our Hearts ; Epilogue.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-316) and index
"Today it is the most valuable book in the world. Recently one sold for over five
million dollars. It is the book that rescued the name of William Shakespeare and half
of his plays from oblivion. The Millionaire and the Bard tells the miraculous and
romantic story of the making of the First Folio, and of the American industrialist
whose thrilling pursuit of the book became a lifelong obsession. When Shakespeare
died in 1616 half of his plays died with him. No one--not even their author--believed
that his writings would last, that he was a genius, or that future generations would
celebrate him as the greatest author in the history of the English language. By the
time of his death his plays were rarely performed, eighteen of them had never been
published, and the rest existed only in bastardized forms that did not stay true to
his original language. Seven years later, in 1623, Shakespeare's business partners,
companions, and fellow actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, gathered copies of
the plays and manuscripts, edited and published thirty-six of them. This massive book,
the First Folio, was intended as a memorial to their deceased friend. They could not
have known that it would become one of the most important books ever published in
the English language, nor that it would become a fetish object for collectors. The
Millionaire and the Bard is a literary detective story, the tale of two mysterious
men--a brilliant author and his obsessive collector--separated by space and time.
It is a tale of two cities--Elizabethan and Jacobean London and Gilded Age New York.
It is a chronicle of two worlds--of art and commerce--that unfolded an ocean and three
centuries apart. And it is the thrilling tale of the luminous book that saved the
name of William Shakespeare 'to the last syllable of recorded time'"
Sujet(s) : Folger, Henry Clay (1857-1930 )
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) -- Éditions in-folio, 1623
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) -- Amis et relations
Bibliophiles -- New York (États-Unis ; État) -- New York (N.Y., États-Unis)
Édition -- Londres (GB) -- 17e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781439118238. - ISBN 143911823X. - ISBN 9781439118252. - ISBN 1439118256. -
ISBN 9781439141243 (erroné). - ISBN 143914124X (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44397089p
Notice n° :
FRBNF44397089
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