Autograph manuscript (draft) of Ellen Terry Shakespeare lecture by Florence Locke [manuscript], 1934 April [26].

Folger Shakespeare Library

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The Folger Shakespeare Library is a world-renowned center for scholarship, learning, culture, and the arts that houses the world’s largest Shakespeare collection. The Folger collections include rare printed books, manuscripts, works of art, audiovisual materials, and modern scholarship. These materials extend beyond Shakespeare to include a wide range of disciplines – history and politics, theology and exploration, law and the arts – from the early modern period (1500–1750). An internationall...

Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928

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British actress. From the description of Dame Ellen Terry correspondence and calling card, 1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980587 Epithet: actress British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000002 Dame Ellen Terry was a 19th century British actress, who for many years performed opposite Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, London. She was made a Dame Grand Cross in 1925. Fro...

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. ...

Locke, Florence

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Miss Locke was an actress, widely known in the United States and England in the 1930s, who had studied under Adrian Brunel and Yvette Guilbert. She gave numerous dramatic recitals of works by Shakespeare, Stephen Vincent Benét, Amy Lowell and others in small theaters, clubs and drawing rooms. She had the exclusive right, through Edith Craig, to present Ellen Terry's lectures on Shakespeare. She gave two recitals at the Folger Shakespeare Library and corresponded with Mrs. Folger, her nephew, E....

Leider, Robert, 1929-

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