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Near left, in her Paris book- shop, Shakes- peare and Co., photo by Gisèle Freund

Archive 2009-08-01 Fresca 2009

Near left, in her Paris book- shop, Shakes- peare and Co., photo by Gisèle Freund

Free Women in Paris Fresca 2009

Alexander Pope in the preface to his edition of Shakes peare (1715) noted: “If ever any Author deserved the name of an Original it was Shakespeare ....”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968

For among other iewelles of inestimable price, vppon the verie toppe in a flower, there was sette a Diamond in fashion of a peare, glistering and sparkling of a huge and vnseene bignes.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

And the mole [4] peare did bende the leafy spraie;

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Speaking of books reminds me that I'm getting rich in that line, for on New Year's Day Mr. Bhaer gave me a fine Shakes - peare.

Little Women 1921

Side of the river a hard rain all the evening we are all Cold and wet. on this part of the river on the head of Clarks River I observe great quantities of a peculiar Sort of Prickly peare grow in Clusters ovel & about the Size of a Pigions egge with Strong Thorns which is So birded as to draw the Pear from the Cluster after penetrateing our feet.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

No, no; wee will hold it as a dreame, till it ap-peare

Much Ado About Nothing (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

Norway: but hitherto was neuer benefit taken of the herring fishing: There are sundry other fish very delicate, namely the Bonito, Lobsters, Turbut, with others infinite not sought after: Oysters hauing peare but not orient in colour: I tooke it by reason they were not gathered in season.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

Composers featured in the performance include John Dowland, Shakes-peare's lutenist Robert Johnson and the prolific anon.

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