The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio
- ISBN-10
- 143911823X
- ISBN-13
- 9781439118238
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-05-12
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Andrea Mays
Description
Documents the romantic story of the making of the First Folio, relating how a few years after a virtually unknown Shakespeare died, his former partners, friends and actors gathered his surviving manuscripts, unaware that they would create one of the most important English-language books ever published.
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