Conni jonsson biography of william shakespeare
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Past Exhibition Shakespeare’s Here and Everywhere
September 3, through February 16,
Introduction
Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes
In an extravagant and wheeling stranger
Of here and everywhere.
– Roderigo to Brabantio in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice ()
William Shakespeare’s plays are set in Europe, Asia and Africa, from classical times to the Renaissance. How did he and other authors, mapmakers and readers of his day imagine foreign and often exotic settings, the “other” as well as the familiar? What roles do place, identity and travel play in his comedies, tragedies and histories? Explore these questions and more through maps, atlases and illustrations of Shakespeare’s time and beyond, and armchair travel with the Bard to “here, and everywhere.”
1. The World in the Time of Shakespeare
Abraham Ortelius ()
“Typus Orbis Terrarum,” from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Antwerp, Reproduction,
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library.
In Dutch mapmaker Abraham Ortelius, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, published a revolutionary item – a book of maps illustrating the entire known world. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, or “Theater of the World,” was the first modern wor
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Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections
The Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections (HAJMTC) were formed by over two hundred file-folder level collections (one-three file folders per personality or event), known here as the Alphabetical collections. These collections contain information dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, and they document early dramatic actors; minstrel shows; vaudeville acts; musical revues; ss Broadway productions; the protest dramas of the ss; plays written during the Black Arts Movement of the late ss; and theatrical productions of the ss. In addition to actors, playwrights, singers, musicians, and dancers (classical and popular) (e.g. Ira Frederick Aldridge, Eubie Blake and Katherine Dunham), and the productions in which they appeared, there are collections for poets and visual artists. There are eighteen collections documenting performers of the nineteenth century; twenty-nine collections covering the period ; thirty-seven collections document the ss; and eleven collections cover the ss. The bulk of the collections represent the two most productive periods for Black theater: ninety-two collections for the ss, and ninety collections for the Black Arts Movement. This collection