The Shakespeare thefts : in search of the first folios / Eric Rasmussen.
Rasmussen, Eric, 1960-
2011
PR3071 .R37 2011 (Mapit)
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Title The Shakespeare thefts : in search of the first folios / Eric Rasmussen.
Author Rasmussen, Eric, 1960-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780230109414
0230109411
Imprint Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Language English
Description xv, 212 p., [8] p. of plates : facsims., ports. ; 22 cm.
Call Number PR3071 .R37 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 822.3/3
Summary "The first edition of Shakespeare's collected works, the First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the most valuable books in the world and has historically proven to be an attractive target for thieves. Of the 160 First Folios listed in a census of 1902, 14 were subsequently stolen-and only two of these were ever recovered. In his efforts to catalog all these precious First Folios, renowned Shakespeare scholar Eric Rasmussen embarked on a riveting journey around the globe, involving run-ins with heavily tattooed criminal street gangs in Tokyo, bizarre visits with eccentric, reclusive billionaires, and intense battles of wills with secretive librarians. He explores the intrigue surrounding the Earl of Pembroke, arguably Shakespeare's boyfriend, to whom the First Folio is dedicated and whose personal copy is still missing. He investigates the uncanny sequence of events in which a wealthy East Coast couple drowned in a boating accident and the next week their First Folio appeared for sale in Kansas. We hear about Folios that were censored, the pages ripped out of them, about a volume that was marked in red paint-or is it blood?-on every page; and of yet another that has a bullet lodged in its pages. Part literary detective story, part Shakespearean lore, The Shakespeare Thefts will charm the Bard's many fans"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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A literary detective story
The most hated man in England : the Gondomar copy
First Folio hunters
A Cuban fraud : the Durham University copy
The waiting is the hardest part
Unrecovered : the Manchester University copy
The Pope's sticky fingers
A close personal relationship : the Pembroke copies
Nationalism, bullets, and a recovered treasure
The bibliomaniac : the Sir Thomas Phillipps copy
Looking into Shakespeare's eyes
Fell in the weeping brook : the Fiske Harris copy
Got to get ourselves back to the garden
The King's companion : Royalist copies, Puritan copies
A literary thief, a bootlegger, a shoe salesman, and Hitler : the Williams College copy
Why is 'The Whore of Babylon' well thumbed?
Alienated : the Hereford Cathedral copy
Creative control
"Purloined & embezzled" : the William Beeston copy
The world's worst stolen treasure
Appendix. The making of the Shakespeare First Folio.

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