Friends of The Bodleian Lectures:Lost and Found: the Bodleian Shakespeare Folio
| Event Name | Friends of The Bodleian Lectures:Lost and Found: the Bodleian Shakespeare Folio |
| Start Date | 22nd Nov 2011 1:00pm |
| End Date | 22nd Nov 2011 1:30pm |
| Duration | 30 minutes |
| Description |
Convocation House, Old Bodleian Library (Entrance in Old Schools Quad) Dr Emma Smith ( Fellow and Tutor in English, Hertford College) Dr Smith will discuss the story of how the Bodleian lost its First Folio of Shakespeare in the seventeenth century,and the efforts to get it back at the beginning of the twentieth.It's a story of personal rivalries as well as national ones,of a wonderfully amateurish and individual fundraising campaign,and of the way Oxford was changing on the eve of the First World War - as well as about the value of the book itself. The FOB lectures are open to all but please register in advance by email: fob@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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