Leaves from the four folios of Shakespeare [manuscript], ca. 1940?

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Leaves from the four folios of Shakespeare [manuscript], ca. 1940?

Typescript by Edwin Eliot Willoughby. Accompanied by advance notice of proposed publication Original leaves from the four folios of Shakespeare with an introductory essay by Edwin Eliott Willoughby.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7109302

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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William Shakespeare was likely born April, 23, 1564; he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford while working in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known. His parents were John and Mary Shakespeare. John was a leatherworker and involved in local politics, first becoming an alderman and eventually a town bailiff. ...

Willoughby, Edwin E., 1899-1959

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Edwin Eliott Willoughby was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 5, 1899, the eldest of the three children of printer Frank Faul Willoughby and his wife Annie (Smith) Willoughby. While Edwin was still a child, the family moved to New Jersey. In 1918, Willoughby entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1922, and participated in the Student Army Air Corps as a private in the U.S. Army during the First World War. He remained at Dickinson after the war, and was...