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This article gives a listing of items exhibited in [[Shakespeare in American Life|''Shakespeare in American Life'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]]. Listed chronologically, the [http://www.folger.edu/store/sd4/product/shakespeare-in-american-life-1372.cfm catalog] entry number is included before the Call number.
This article gives a listing of items exhibited in [[Shakespeare in American Life|''Shakespeare in American Life'']], one of the [[Exhibitions at the Folger]]. Items are listed chronologically, and, when available, the [http://www.folger.edu/store/sd4/product/shakespeare-in-american-life-1372.cfm catalog] entry number is included before the Call number.


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* ''7th Regiment Amusement Association! ... Fort Federal Hill, Baltimore, Aug. 8th, 1862. The Regimental Band... will be followed by the celebrated Trial Scene from The Merchant of Venice!... After which, the Burlesque Tragic Opera of Bombastes Furioso... the whole to conclue with The Tattoo To be beaten from the Stage by the Drum Corps, under the direction of Major Graham''. Playbill, Baltimore, MD: 8 August, 1862. Catalog item 53. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=192235 261129 PLAYBILL] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/jhb22y LUNA Digital Image].
* ''7th Regiment Amusement Association! ... Fort Federal Hill, Baltimore, Aug. 8th, 1862. The Regimental Band... will be followed by the celebrated Trial Scene from The Merchant of Venice!... After which, the Burlesque Tragic Opera of Bombastes Furioso... the whole to conclue with The Tattoo To be beaten from the Stage by the Drum Corps, under the direction of Major Graham''. Playbill, Baltimore, MD: 8 August, 1862. Catalog item 53. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=192235 261129 PLAYBILL] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/jhb22y LUNA Digital Image].
* William Shakespeare. ''The complete works of Shakspeare''. Ed. George Steevens. Cincinnati: Rickey and Carrol, 1864. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=265603 PR2752 1864h Sh.Col.]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/0p05st Presentation label for Clara Barton].
* William Shakespeare. ''The complete works of Shakspeare''. Ed. George Steevens. Cincinnati: Rickey and Carrol, 1864. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=265603 PR2752 1864h Sh.Col.]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/0p05st Presentation label for Clara Barton].
* ''Abraham Lincoln ... Shakespeare applied to our national breavement ...''. Massachusettes: B.D. Russell, 1865. Catalog item 40. Call number: http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=14166 Sh.misc. 390] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/6qslpo LUNA Digital Image].
* ''Nast’s illustrated almanac''. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871-. Catalog item 80. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=15107 ART Vol. e106] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/1z0n98 LUNA Digital Image].
* ''Desdemonum: an Ethiopian Burlesque, in Three Scenes''. New York: Happy Hours Co., 1874?. Catalog item 26. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=65908 PR2829.A72 D4]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/igz6if front cover].
* Shakespeare Club of Wheeling. ''Proceedings of the Shakespeare Club of Wheeling ...''. Wheeling: Lewis Baker & Co., 1875. Catalog item 74. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=34763 Sh.misc. 1678].
* William Shakespeare. ''The complete works of William Shakspeare''. Ed. by George Steevens and Alexander Chalmers. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1875. Catalog item 134. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=263066 PR2752 1875k Sh.Col.]. and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/4k81yi LUNA Digital Image].
* George H. W. Griffin. ''Hamlet the dainty: an Ethiopian burlesque on Shakespeare’s Hamlet: performed by Griffin & Christy’s Minstrels''. New York: Happy Hours Co., [188-?]. Catalog item 29. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=33890  PR2807.A72 G8] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/547p7b LUNA Digital Image].
* ''Dar’s de money. Othello burlesque''. London, New York: S. French, [ca. 1880]. Catalog item 28. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=64691 PR2829.A72 D2] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/t2804o LUNA Digital Image].
* Thomas W. Keene scrapbook. [United States]: 1880. Catalog item 46. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=189266 260162 SCRAPBOOK].
* R.W. Criswell. ''The new Shakspeare and other travesties''. New York: The American news company, 1882. Catalog item 33. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=88389 PR2878 .C85]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/d4xexs pp. 8-9].
* Walt Whitman. ''What lurks behind Shakspere’s historical plays?'' Manuscript, ca. 1884. Catalog item 62. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=222058 S.b.89] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/3v7649 LUNA Digital Image].
* ''The (old clothes) Merchant of Venice, or, The young judge and old jewry : a burlesque sketch, for the drawing-room : together with a description of the costumes, cast of the characters ... and the whole of the stage business''. New York: De Witt, [189-?]. Catalog item 32. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=40196 PR2825.A72 O6 1895 Cage].
* Gebbie & Company, printmaker. ''James H. Hackett as Falstaff, Henry fourth, act IV, scene II''. Photogravure, [Philadelphia : s.n., late 19th century?]. Catalog item 17. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=255588 ART File H121 no.8 (size XS) and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/av798q LUNA Digital Image].
* E. Hamilton Bell. Costume designs for Augustin Daly’s production of ''Love’s labour’s lost''. [1891?]. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=262028 ART Vol. b25] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/1y80g3 LUNA Digital Image].
* William Shakespeare. ''Love’s labor’s lost: a comedy, written by William Shakspere; arranged in 4 acts for the present stage by Augustin Daly; with a few prefatory thoughts upon the comedy by William Winter.'' [New York]: Privately printed for Mr. Daly (New York : Trow’s Printing and Bookbinding Co.), 1891. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=74411 ART Vol. b25] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/v17el2 LUNA Digital Image].
* William Shakespeare. ''The tempest''. Edited by Horace Howard Furness. Philadelphia; London: J.B. Lippincott Company, c1892. Catalog item 65. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=73421 PR2833 .A375 Sh.Col.] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/6j9y49 LUNA Digital Image].
* F. Opper. ''Shakespeare would ride the bicycle if alive today: the reasons why''. Cleveland: H.A. Lozier & Co., c1896. Catalog item 128. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=192697 ART Vol. e203] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/4524g1 LUNA Digital Image].
* Doubleday & McClure & Company. ''How to organize a Shakespeare club''. New York : Doubleday & McClure Co., [1898]. Catalog item 77. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=14536 Sh.misc. 859] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/202gzx LUNA Digital Image].
* Informal photograph of Langston Hughes. Photograph. Catalog entry 91. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=194674 ART 261689.2 (size S)] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/42z835 LUNA Digital Image].
* C. Alphonso Smith. ''Why young men should study Shakespeare''. New York: University Society, c1902. Catalog item 69. Call number: [ http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=15609 Sh.misc. 1240].
* William Shakespeare. ''The complete dramatic and poetic works of William Shakespeare''. Edited by William Allan Neilson. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company; Cambridge, [Mass.]: The Riverside Press, 1906. Catalog item 56. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=191888 W.a.459].
* Shakespeare Club (Pasadena, California). ''Eighteenth annual announcement''. Pasadena, 1907. Catalog item 75. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=15498 Sh.misc. 1669].
* Frederick Gutekunst. ''Henry H. Eden with the cordial regards of Horace Howard Furness, January 1910''. Photograph, Philadelphia, [Pa.]: [s.n., 1910?]. Catalog item 138. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=255950 ART File F988.5 PHOTO (size XS)] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/fu88sv LUNA Digital Image].
* Charles Lamb. ''Sheḳspier’s oysgeṿehlṭe ṿerḳ miṭ zayn biografye un bild, bearbeyṭ oys dem Englishen fun D.M. Hermalin''. Yiddish translation of Lamb's ''Tales from Shakespeare''. Nyu Yorḳ: Sh. Druḳerman, 1912. Catalog item 55. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=101322 247331].
* Helen Coale Crew. ''Grace before Shakespeare''. Manuscript, 27 December 1913. Catalog item 56. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=233528 W.a.459, front endleaf 3].
* Percy MacKaye. ''Caliban by the yellow sands''. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=37356 PR2923 1916.M2] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/6ikwl0 LUNA Digital Image].

Revision as of 14:31, 24 December 2014

This article gives a listing of items exhibited in Shakespeare in American Life, one of the Exhibitions at the Folger. Items are listed chronologically, and, when available, the catalog entry number is included before the Call number.

Items included

  • William Shakespeare. The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice. Souvenir promptbook. [S.l. : s.n., n.d.]. Catalog item 86. Call number: PROMPT Oth. Fo.2 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Othello: a burlesque. As performed by Griffin & Christy’s Minstrels, New York. Clyde, OH: Ames, [n.d.]. Catalog item 27. Call number: PR2829.A72 O7
  • William Shakespeare. Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies: published according to the true originall copies. London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount, 1623. Catalog item 1. Call number: STC 22273 Fo.1 no.41 and Binding image on LUNA.
  • Samuel Purchas. Purchas his pilgrimes. In fiue bookes. London: Printed by William Stansby, 1625. Catalog item 3. Call number: STC 20509 Copy 1 Vol. 4 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • John Smith. The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles. Divided into sixe bookes. London: Printed by J. D[awson] and J. H[aviland], 1631. Catalog item 4. Call number: STC 22790c.2 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Quotation from Julius Caesar in the hand of John Adams. Manuscript, 18th or 19th century. Catalog item 37. Call number: Y.d.246 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • William Knight Northall. Macbeth travestie. Promptbook. [18--?]. Catalog item 30. Call number: PR2823.A72 N7 1852.
  • Augustus Robin. Edwin Forrest as Macbeth: [in Shakespeare’s Macbeth]. Engraving. [United States?: s.n., 19th century?]. Catalog item 14. Call number: ART File F728 no.18 (size XS) and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Tickets to Readings from Shakespeare signed by Fanny Kemble. Manuscript, 19th century. Catalog item 43. Call number: Y.d.443.
  • Increase Cooke. Sequel to the American orator, or, dialogues for schools. New Haven: Increase Cooke, 1813. Catalog item 66. Call number: PN4201 .C71 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • John Quincy Adams. Autograph letters signed from John Quincy Adams to various recipients. Manuscript, 1830-1839. Catalog item 38. Call number: Y.c.10 (2) and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Louisa May Alcott. Little Pyramus and Thisbe. Manuscript, 19th century. Catalog item 68. Call number: N.a.32 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Thomas Sully. Charlotte Cushman. Oil on canvas, 1843. Catalog item 19. Call number: FPb47 (aisle 103) and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Thomas Sherratt. Mr. Macready as Macbeth [in Shakespeare’s Macbeth]. Engraving. London: John Tallis & Company, mid-19th century. Catalog item 13. Call number: ART File M174.4 no.20 copy 1 (size XS) and LUNA Digital Image.
  • William Shakespeare. Macbeth. A tragedy in five acts ... With the stage business ... Promptbook. New York: Berford & Co., 1847. Catalog item 16. Call number: PROMPT Mac. 56 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • William Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s plays: with his life. Illustrated by H.W. Hewet, after designs by Kenny Meadows, Harvey, and others; edited by Gulian C. Verplanck. In three volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers, publishers, 1847. Catalog item 64. Call number: PR2752 1847c copy 1 Sh.Col. and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Riot at the Astor-Place Opera-House, New York (see page 372). Engraving. [London?: s.n., 1849]. Catalog item 12. Call number: ART File N567.7 no.2 (size XS) and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Friedrich August Leo. Autograph letters signed from various correspondents mostly to F.A. Leo. Manuscript, 1852-1899. Call number: Y.c.1505 (1) and Guide to Letters of Friedrich August Leo.
  • Mr. Ira Aldridge as Aaron [character in Shakespeare’s] Titus Andronicus. Engraving. [London]: The London Printing and Publishing Company, [between 1852 and 1853]. Catalog item 84. Call number: http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=255857 ART File A365.5 no.1 copy 2 (size XS)] and LUNA Digital Image.
  • George Edward Rice. An old play in a new garb: (Hamlet, prince of Denmark); in three acts. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853. Catalog item 31. Call number: PR2807.A72 R5 1853a.
  • New York Shakespeare Club. Constitution of the Shakspeare Club. S.l., 1854. Catalog item 72. Call number: Sh.misc. 614.
  • David Claypoole Johnston. A pro slavery incantation scene. Or Shakspeare improved. Lithograph. [United States: s.n., not before 1856]. Catalog item 34. Call number: ART File S528m1 no.86 (size L) and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Shakespeare Society of Philadelphia. Menus for annual dinners ... : various dates between 1860 and 1880. Catalog item 78. Call number: Sh.misc. 372 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • 7th Regiment Amusement Association! ... Fort Federal Hill, Baltimore, Aug. 8th, 1862. The Regimental Band... will be followed by the celebrated Trial Scene from The Merchant of Venice!... After which, the Burlesque Tragic Opera of Bombastes Furioso... the whole to conclue with The Tattoo To be beaten from the Stage by the Drum Corps, under the direction of Major Graham. Playbill, Baltimore, MD: 8 August, 1862. Catalog item 53. Call number: 261129 PLAYBILL and LUNA Digital Image.
  • William Shakespeare. The complete works of Shakspeare. Ed. George Steevens. Cincinnati: Rickey and Carrol, 1864. Call number: PR2752 1864h Sh.Col.; displayed Presentation label for Clara Barton.
  • Abraham Lincoln ... Shakespeare applied to our national breavement .... Massachusettes: B.D. Russell, 1865. Catalog item 40. Call number: http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=14166 Sh.misc. 390] and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Nast’s illustrated almanac. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871-. Catalog item 80. Call number: ART Vol. e106 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Desdemonum: an Ethiopian Burlesque, in Three Scenes. New York: Happy Hours Co., 1874?. Catalog item 26. Call number: PR2829.A72 D4; displayed front cover.
  • Shakespeare Club of Wheeling. Proceedings of the Shakespeare Club of Wheeling .... Wheeling: Lewis Baker & Co., 1875. Catalog item 74. Call number: Sh.misc. 1678.
  • William Shakespeare. The complete works of William Shakspeare. Ed. by George Steevens and Alexander Chalmers. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1875. Catalog item 134. Call number: PR2752 1875k Sh.Col.. and LUNA Digital Image.
  • George H. W. Griffin. Hamlet the dainty: an Ethiopian burlesque on Shakespeare’s Hamlet: performed by Griffin & Christy’s Minstrels. New York: Happy Hours Co., [188-?]. Catalog item 29. Call number: PR2807.A72 G8 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Dar’s de money. Othello burlesque. London, New York: S. French, [ca. 1880]. Catalog item 28. Call number: PR2829.A72 D2 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Thomas W. Keene scrapbook. [United States]: 1880. Catalog item 46. Call number: 260162 SCRAPBOOK.
  • R.W. Criswell. The new Shakspeare and other travesties. New York: The American news company, 1882. Catalog item 33. Call number: PR2878 .C85; displayed pp. 8-9.
  • Walt Whitman. What lurks behind Shakspere’s historical plays? Manuscript, ca. 1884. Catalog item 62. Call number: S.b.89 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • The (old clothes) Merchant of Venice, or, The young judge and old jewry : a burlesque sketch, for the drawing-room : together with a description of the costumes, cast of the characters ... and the whole of the stage business. New York: De Witt, [189-?]. Catalog item 32. Call number: PR2825.A72 O6 1895 Cage.
  • Gebbie & Company, printmaker. James H. Hackett as Falstaff, Henry fourth, act IV, scene II. Photogravure, [Philadelphia : s.n., late 19th century?]. Catalog item 17. Call number: ART File H121 no.8 (size XS) and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/av798q LUNA Digital Image.
  • E. Hamilton Bell. Costume designs for Augustin Daly’s production of Love’s labour’s lost. [1891?]. Call number: ART Vol. b25 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • William Shakespeare. Love’s labor’s lost: a comedy, written by William Shakspere; arranged in 4 acts for the present stage by Augustin Daly; with a few prefatory thoughts upon the comedy by William Winter. [New York]: Privately printed for Mr. Daly (New York : Trow’s Printing and Bookbinding Co.), 1891. Call number: ART Vol. b25 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • William Shakespeare. The tempest. Edited by Horace Howard Furness. Philadelphia; London: J.B. Lippincott Company, c1892. Catalog item 65. Call number: PR2833 .A375 Sh.Col. and LUNA Digital Image.
  • F. Opper. Shakespeare would ride the bicycle if alive today: the reasons why. Cleveland: H.A. Lozier & Co., c1896. Catalog item 128. Call number: ART Vol. e203 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Doubleday & McClure & Company. How to organize a Shakespeare club. New York : Doubleday & McClure Co., [1898]. Catalog item 77. Call number: Sh.misc. 859 and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Informal photograph of Langston Hughes. Photograph. Catalog entry 91. Call number: ART 261689.2 (size S) and LUNA Digital Image.
  • C. Alphonso Smith. Why young men should study Shakespeare. New York: University Society, c1902. Catalog item 69. Call number: [ http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=15609 Sh.misc. 1240].
  • William Shakespeare. The complete dramatic and poetic works of William Shakespeare. Edited by William Allan Neilson. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company; Cambridge, [Mass.]: The Riverside Press, 1906. Catalog item 56. Call number: W.a.459.
  • Shakespeare Club (Pasadena, California). Eighteenth annual announcement. Pasadena, 1907. Catalog item 75. Call number: Sh.misc. 1669.
  • Frederick Gutekunst. Henry H. Eden with the cordial regards of Horace Howard Furness, January 1910. Photograph, Philadelphia, [Pa.]: [s.n., 1910?]. Catalog item 138. Call number: ART File F988.5 PHOTO (size XS) and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Charles Lamb. Sheḳspier’s oysgeṿehlṭe ṿerḳ miṭ zayn biografye un bild, bearbeyṭ oys dem Englishen fun D.M. Hermalin. Yiddish translation of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare. Nyu Yorḳ: Sh. Druḳerman, 1912. Catalog item 55. Call number: 247331.
  • Helen Coale Crew. Grace before Shakespeare. Manuscript, 27 December 1913. Catalog item 56. Call number: W.a.459, front endleaf 3.
  • Percy MacKaye. Caliban by the yellow sands. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. Call number: PR2923 1916.M2 and LUNA Digital Image.