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uwmspeccoll · 7 months

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Shakespeare Weekend

This weekend we explore Shakespeare’s comedy, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, the thirty-sixth volume of the thirty-seven volume The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare, published by the Limited Editions Club (LEC) from 1939-1940. The Two Gentlemen of Verona is believed to be one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, written between 1594 and 1595. The story is heavily inspired by Montemayor’s pastoral romance The Seven Books of Diana (1559) and was first published as a play in the First Folio of 1623.

French artist Pierre Brissaud (1885-1964) illustrated The Two Gentlemen of Verona with his chracteristic water-color drawings. Brissaud came from a family of artists and followed in their footsteps, training at the École des Beaux-Arts. He found great success in creating Art Deco prints for advertising firms and fashion magazines including Vogue. Brissaud was drawn to The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the challenge of capturing the city’s stunning architecture and ambiance and his work does not disappoint. In Brissaud’s water-color drawings, the characters play out their scenes against intricate architectural details and immersive landscapes. Atelier Beaufume reproduced Brissaud’s drawings for publication using actual watercolors resulting in the velvety colors appearing as if they glow upon the page.

The volume was printed in an edition of 1950 copies at the Press of A. Colish. Each of the LEC volumes of Shakespeare’s works are illustrated by a different artist, but the unifying factor is that all volumes were designed by famed book and type designer Bruce Rogers and edited by the British theatre professional and Shakespeare specialist Herbert Farjeon. Our copy is number 1113, the number for long-standing LEC member Austin Fredric Lutter of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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max-reblogger · 5 months

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Shakespeare. He lived with us like and eighth housemate, an older, wiser friend perpetually out of sight but never out of mind, as if he had just left the room. Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.

Book Quotes #85 - If We Were Villains

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uomo-accattivante · 2 years

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Il materiale di origine: The Public Theater (YouTube) / Oscar Isaac performs “Symphony” from The Two Gentlemen of Verona at The Public Theater's Gala on the Green at The Delacorte Theater in New York City. (24th May, 2022)

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do-you-know-this-play · 4 months

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#the two gentlemen of verona #shakespeare #william shakespeare #theater #theatre #plays #tumblr polls

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cesario-shakespeare · 2 years

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A Shakespearean atlas / by Elizabeth Mckie (1934) [x]

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gayestshakespearecouples · 11 months

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Silvia and Julia

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Helena and Hermia

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plus more Helena going on about how pretty Hermia is

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Silvia and Julia: Fiasco Theatre, 2015

Helena and Hermia: Marin Shakespeare Company, 2019

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dukeofstratford · 2 years

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I think English Renaissance dramatists set so many plays in Italy because they just really liked the name Antonio.

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shakespearenews · 2 months

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#shakespeare #william shakespeare #theater #theatre #greg doran #The Two Gentlemen of Verona #two gents #rsc

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basingstokemercury · 11 months

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EXCUSE ME DID NONE OF YOU READ TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

#gilbert and sullivan #iolanthe #shakespeare #the two gentlemen of verona #genuinely what I think about whenever listening to this song

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glimeres · 2 months

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2005 - Norm Lewis, John Cariani, and Company perform Where's North from the musical The Two Gentlemen Of Verona

#once again i beg you for crumbs of the 2005 production of two gentlemen of verona with oscar isaac please #norm lewis #john cariani #the two gentlemen of verona #musical #musicals #video #posted

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uwmspeccoll · 6 months

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Shakespeare Weekend!

The next illustrated collection of Shakespeare from our holdings is the second edition of The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: In Ten Volumes published by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and Dr. George Sewell (d. 1726) for Jacob Tonson (1655-1736). Pope’s second edition was published in eight volumes in 1728, followed by supplementary ninth and tenth volumes. Sewell is only credited within the tenth volume.

Volume One includes a preface by Pope followed by Nicholas Rowe’s biographical essay Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear and a poem in memory of Shakespeare by English dramatist Ben Jonson (1572-1637). Plays contained within volume one include The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Measure for Measure.

Pope’s editions of Shakespeare were the first attempted to collate all previous publications in order to help determine authorial text and regularize Shakespearean metre. He consulted twenty-seven early quartos restoring passages that had been out of print for almost a century. Pope also took liberties in removing about 1,560 lines of material that didn’t appeal to him. Some such lines were degraded to the bottom of the page with his other editorial notes. At the time, his editorial hand was met with some criticism and dismissal but historically it may be seen as one of the first scholarly approaches to Shakespeare.

Pope followed in Rowe’s footsteps including scene divisions, stage directions, dramatis personae, and full-page engravings preceding each play. Volume One’s engravings are attributed to French artist Louis Du Guernier (1677-1716) and Englishman Paul Fourdrinier (1698-1758). Dedicated readers of Shakespeare Weekend may notice some of the engravings’ extreme similarities to François Boitard’s work from Rowe’s volumes, particularly in the frontispiece interpretation of Shakespeare's Stratford monument.