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Website. www.folger.edu. 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.
Louis Booker Wright (March 1, 1899 – December 26, 1984) was an American author, educator and librarian. Wright was the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library , the author of numerous books about the American colonial period, and in 1928 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship .
American University. Peggy O'Brien is an American educator who is the founding director of education at the Folger Shakespeare Library and an authority in the teaching of Shakespeare and literature. She is a director of SAGE Publications, board chair of St. Coletta School in Washington, D.C. and past board chair at Trinity Washington University.
Henry Clay Folger Sr. Eliza Jane Clark. Henry Clay Folger Jr. (June 18, 1857 – June 11, 1930) was an American businessman who was president and later chairman of Standard Oil of New York, a collector of Shakespeareana, and founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
The world's largest collection is in the possession of the Folger Shakespeare Library (82 copies) in Washington, D.C., followed by Meisei University (12) in Tokyo, the New York Public Library (6) in New York City, and the British Library (5) in London. The Folger collection alone accounts for more than one third of all known surviving copies.
Folger Library Theater, circa 1932. The Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill includes a replica of an Elizabethan theatre, originally used for lectures and tours.In 1970 this space was transformed into a functioning playhouse, and soon Folger Theatre Group (later The Folger Theatre) was organized to perform.
Emily Jordan Folger (May 15, 1858 – February 21, 1936), was the wife of Henry Clay Folger and the co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library. During her husband's lifetime, she assisted him in building the world's largest collection of Shakespeare materials. After his death in 1930, she funded the completion of the Folger Shakespeare ...
Heather Ruth Wolfe FSA (born 1971 [1]) is an American curator of manuscripts and archivist at the Folger Shakespeare Library. [2] A "Shakespeare detective", she has been noted for her research into the history of the Shakespeare coat of arms. [3] [4] [5] She headed "Shakespeare Documented", a project to make contemporary texts involving ...