institutional ownership reduces First Folio liquidity
Institutions holding rare objects like Shakespeare’s First Folio won’t sell them for any price. Well-endowed institutions also won’t die.
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over past four centuries, books much cheaper, but less price dispersion
The First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays, published in 1623, provides a benchmark price for an up-market, popular book about four centuries ago.
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a Shakespearean portrait after the Internet Reformation
The Internet allows a huge amount of information to be made freely available globally at little cost. Because analyzing information requires time and skill, most persons won’t do it. But the provision of information nonetheless signals credibility. If an authority doesn’t provide publicly, by Internet standards, a reasonable amount of relevant information, then that [...]
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King Lear's great falls
Among the cocky young men in the new ruler’s entourage, one wears a t-shirt declaring, “business is good.” The back of his t-shirt adds, “my business is killing.” Such a combination of power, inhumane interests, and brutality, writ large, animates Shakespeare’s King Lear. For a production with the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Director Robert Falls has [...]
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Shakespeare Theatre's tragic Ion
Euripides’ ancient Greek play Ion shows the god Apollo to be violent, immoral, and duplicitous. We moderns don’t imagine gods to be like this. Neither did Ion, a foundling raised within Apollo’s Delphi temple to serve its needs. The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Ion, directed by Ethan McSweeny, brings together family [...]
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Twelfth Night at the Shakespeare Theatre
Twelfth Night, a Shakespearean popular favorite, brings happiness to everyone except a most austere Puritan. The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Twelfth Night delivers laughter, fine acting, and beautiful poetry on its way to the concluding three marriages. That a person carried along in this drama might be left with a vague awareness of more [...]
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a theatrical exploration of Shakespearean sense
In Shakespeare’s time, controversy raged about the values of words, images, and actions. Is God’s word meant to be proclaimed in liturgy, or is God most effectively encountered in personal reading of scripture? Can images and physical gestures support communication with God? Authorities across the sixteenth century suppressed physical practices of worship, white-washed interiors of [...]
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a Shakespearean portrait of bad public reason
Purported portraits of Shakespeare have attracted considerable public interest. A scholar recently explained: If Shakespeare study today is a lively mix of wishfulness, mythology and scholarship, this may simply be because we don’t know what he looked like, and what we do know about him is unsatisfactory. … How did this money-worried little capitalist, who [...]
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