Arthur m hauptman biography of william shakespeare
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Tom Hanks backs President Obama's community college plan, but the proposal leads to some unexpected opinions
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The actor Tom Hanks has come out strongly in support of President Obama's community-college plan.
(The Associated Press)
Tom Hanks went to a community college in the 1970s. In a New York Times opinion piece on Wednesday, he says that the school -- Chabot College in Hayward, Calif. -- "made me what I am today."
"Classes I took at Chabot have rippled through my professional pond," the Oscar-winning actor writes. "I produced the HBO mini-series 'John Adams' with an outline format I learned from a pipe-smoking historian, James Coovelis, whose lectures were riveting. Mary Lou Fitzgerald's Studies in Shakespeare taught me how the five-act structures of 'Richard III,' 'The Tempest' and 'Othello' focused their themes."
Hanks, a longtime supporter of Democratic causes, is telling us
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Book Reviews: Spring 2023
Anna Faktorovich
Puffery of the Antique “Shakespeare” Craze Disguised in Book History Scholarship
Emma Smith, Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 2023). Hardcover. 380pp, 6X9”. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-288664-4.
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The publisher’s summary of this book states: “This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now spread around the world about their eventful lives. From ink blots to pet paws, from annotations to wineglass rings, First Folios teem with evidence of their place in different contexts with different priorities. This study offers n
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