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Richard Mulcaster's unique contribution is not only inventing the name "footeball" [dubious – discuss] but also providing the earliest evidence of organised team football. Mulcaster confirms that his was a game closer to modern football by differentiating it from games involving other parts of the body, namely "the hand ball" and "the armeball".
Building on the work of W. J. Courthope, Hardin Craig, E. B. Everitt, Seymour Pitcher and others, the scholar Eric Sams (1926–2004), who wrote two books on Shakespeare, [27] [28] edited two early plays, [29] [30] and published over a hundred papers, argued that "Shakespeare was an early starter who rewrote nobody's plays but his own", and ...
From the founding of the University Library into the twentieth century, rare materials were housed within the main stacks. [5] Significant early acquisitions, now housed in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, include the Richard Aron collection on German pedagogy (20,000 items), [6] acquired in 1913; the H. A. Rattermann collection of German-American literature (7,000 items), [7] acquired in ...
The Little Leather Library Corporation was an American publishing company founded in New York City by Charles and Albert Boni, Harry Scherman, and Max Sackheim.From 1916 to 1923(?) the Little Leather Library Corporation issued 101 literary classics in miniature editions [1] and sold over 25 million little books through department stores, bookstores, drugstores, and by mail.
The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., United States.It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period (1500–1750) in Britain and Europe.
Robert Johnson (c. 1583 – 1633) was an English composer and lutenist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean eras. He is sometimes called "Robert Johnson II" to distinguish him from an earlier Scottish composer. [citation needed] Johnson worked with William Shakespeare providing music for some of his later plays.
He is regarded as one of the fathers of the Football Association (FA) and modern football. The 1863 laws written by Morley, the first secretary of the FA, includes the rule: "No player shall carry the ball." In 2013, marking the 150th anniversary of the FA, the rule book was displayed at the British Library alongside Magna Carta and works of ...
Robert Allot (died 1635) was a London bookseller and publisher of the early Caroline era; his shop was at the sign of the black bear in St. Paul's Churchyard. Though he was in business for a relatively short time – the decade from 1625 to 1635 – Allot had significant connections with the dramatic canons of the two greatest figures of English Renaissance theatre, William Shakespeare and Ben ...