Hanratty’s multimillion dollar career detour enabled him to begin collecting rare books, capped by the 900-page First Folio now at UCI. So, instead of arias, he turned to arithmetic and computers, and struck it rich as the father of computer-aided design and manufacturing, aka CAD/CAM. But while serving in the Korean War as a gunner in the Air Force, he was in a B-29 bomber crash that left his lungs and vocal cords scarred by chemical fumes. A longtime Bard fan whose parents worked on Shakespeare productions at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, Hanratty originally planned to be a professional opera singer. In media interviews, Hanratty – who died in 2019 – explained the twists of fate that led to the gift. Normally locked in a vault, UCI’s folio – a first-edition book of Shakespeare’s plays – was donated to the campus in 1986 by alumnus Patrick Hanratty, a computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur who paid $241,000 for the volume in 1983. Her recent books include: The Leto Bundle (2001), Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture (2003), and Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self (2004).This 1604 anatomy book represents the growing knowledge of the human body during Shakespeare’s time. Marina Warner is a prize-winning writer of fiction, criticism, and history her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of female myths and symbols.
Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Ībout the Author Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
It is a captivating work of Romantic storytelling as well as the original literary homage to the Bard.
Bringing the plays to life in a form that encourages readers to enjoy and explore, Tales from Shakespeare provides an entertaining and informative introduction to the great works while retaining much of Shakespeare's lyricism, phrasing, and rhythm. Book Synopsis Celebrated prose retellings of Shakespeare's plays Charles and Mary Lamb have delighted generations of adults as well as children with their famed prose renderings of Shakespeare's originals.
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