Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Three Edwards: War and State in England 1272-1377 by Michael Prestwich
📖 Early Irish Monasteries by Conleth Manning
#UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead
Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Three Edwards: War and State in England 1272-1377 by Michael Prestwich
📖 Early Irish Monasteries by Conleth Manning
#UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead
I had to bail it after I went to another two chapters. This is definitely not a good book for an audiobook. I could not follow half of the thoughts because a zillion of names have been mentioned. I am pretty sure in ghe printed version there‘s a deawing of a family tree or something, but to follow the branches of a family without the possibility to see it does not work. And then this weird computerized voice. Not my thing. 🤦♀️
This ebook sounded very interesting but the recording sounds like an automatic computer reading out the text. I am not sure if I will be able to listen to it for another 15 hours even though I am really interested in the topic. It is just too difficult to listen to. 🙈
Recent Penguin Monarchs acquisitions (only $2 each!):
📖 Stephen by Watkins
📖 Henry II by Barber
📖 Richard I by Ambridge
📖 Henry III by Church
📖 Henry VI by Ross
📖 Edward IV by Pollard
#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead
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🧡 I'm not named after anyone
🧡 of course Lady Diana popped in my head! And also Diana the goddess of the hunt!
Lots of fascinating detail about how the First Folio made it into print. But also lots that isn't (can't?) be known.
I'll be first into the time travelling machine to check out the bookstalls in St Paul's courtyard c.1623 please...
The author describes this copy of the folio (held by Glasgow University) where a reader has annotated the actors that they "know".
Image from Glasgow University website
https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/july2001.htm...
Even if John Heminges and Henry Condell had consciously worked towards providing posterity with plays which, in their estimation, reflected Shakespeare's 'original' - a word used more than once in the First Folio's pitching - intentions, the process of deciding between existing copies of some of the plays would have meant making tough decisions. Do they stick with Shakespeare's authorial papers for a given play...?
Image from BBC news, 2020.
...the Bishop of London, then still living, 'called together all his clergy about this town, and told them he had express commandment from the king to will them to inveigh vehemently and bitterly in their sermons against the insolency of our women'. The focus of James's ire was a recent trend in feminine attire, particularly 'their wearing of broad- brimmed hats, pointed doublets, [and] their hair cut short or shorn'.
By the time the First Folio syndicate had been formed, St Paul's Cross Churchyard had long been the hub of England's book-selling industry. Around twenty-eight booksellers had set up shop within its boundary by the turn of the century.