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Shakespeare and Company is an English-language bookstore opened in 1951 by George Whitman, located on Paris's Left Bank. The store was named after Sylvia Beach's bookstore of the same name founded in 1919 on the Left Bank, which closed in 1941. Whitman adopted the "Shakespeare and Company" name for his store in 1964.
Neller is CEO of New York-based bookstore chain Shakespeare & Co. [1] and is its largest shareholder since purchasing the company in 2015. [2] Under his leadership the company has added literary cafes and incorporated a point of sale state-of-the-art 3D book printing service that uses recycled paper and produces bookstore quality paperbacks ...
George Whitman (December 12, 1913 – December 14, 2011) was an American bookseller who lived most of his life in France. He was the founder and proprietor of the second Shakespeare and Company, which was named after Sylvia Beach's celebrated original bookstore of the same name (1919 to 1941) on Paris's Left Bank.
Sylvia Beach, an American expatriate from New Jersey, [3] established Shakespeare and Company on 19 November 1919, at 8 rue Dupuytren. [4] Feminist novelist Annie Winifred Ellerman, who wrote under the pseudonym Bryher, helped fund the bookstore with an inheritance from her father, shipping magnate Sir John Ellerman. [5]
Hammacher Schlemmer first began as a hardware store at 221 The Bowery, where it remained from 1848 to 1859.It later moved to 209 The Bowery, remaining from 1859 to 1904. The yellow fever plague of 1822, ascribed to impure water, desolated lower Manhattan and caused business and terrified inhabitants to move out of town to Greenwich Villag
First Folio Theatre was a not-for-profit theater company affiliated with the Actors' Equity Association.Founded in 1996, First Folio, originally named First Folio Shakespeare Festival, was located on the grounds of the Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States.
Shakespeare and Company, Shakespeare & Company, or Shakespeare & Co. may refer to: Shakespeare and Company (1919–1941), an influential English-language bookshop in Paris, France founded by Sylvia Beach; Shakespeare and Company (bookstore), an English-language bookstore in Paris, founded by George Whitman in 1951
The Conservatory was an offshoot of the National Shakespeare Company, a professional acting company that toured productions of Shakespeare and the classics to colleges and universities throughout the US and Canada. The Summer Conservatory was first offered at the Byrdcliffe Theatre in Woodstock, N.Y. in 1974, and moved its facilities to ...