Chesapeake Chapter Folger Library
“Life of an Icon”
exhibition tour
Thursday, January 28

A small group of Chapter members got a very special tour of the Folger Shakespeare Library exhibit entitled Shakespeare: Life of an Icon is scheduled for the Chesapeake Chapter led by Ian Bannon.

Per the library’s web site: “Shakespeare, Life of an Icon brings together some of the most important manuscripts and printed books related to Shakespeare’s life and career, drawn from the Folger collection and other major British and U.S. institutions. Among them: deeds recording Shakespeare’s real estate purchases, drafts of the heraldic grant of arms that he helped his father to obtain, diary entries about seeing his plays and
buying his works, and quick takes on Shakespeare’s fast-rising reputation—from disdained, ‘upstart crow’ in 1592, to the ‘sweet swan of Avon,’ as his friend Ben Jonson describes him in the preliminary material to the first edition of Shakespeare’s collected works, the 1623 First Folio.

“Seen together, these glimpses provide a fresh and intimate perspective on the most famous author in the world.”

Join your fellow Chapter members for this first event of 2016, and enjoy a singular opportunity to enhance your understanding of Shakespeare.

 A few photos of the tour of the museum are included below. Unfortunately they wouldn’t let us take photos of the exhibition.