Patricia Belen, Graphic Designer
Description: In a newly published study, Shakespeare’s Beehive: An Annotated Elizabethan Dictionary Comes to Light, antiquarian booksellers George Koppelman and Daniel Wechsler conclude that the annotations in their copy of Baret’s Alvearie purchased on eBay belong to William Shakespeare.
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. " class="first"> On the evening of April 29, 2008, a bid was placed on eBay for John Baret’s Alvearie, or Quadruple Dictionarie , printed in London in the year 1580.
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How does one constantly go about finding language that offers fresh ways of depicting characters constrained by the same basic human motivations, circling similar dramatic situations, while playing out their various impulses and desires? No writer ever concerned himself less with the strain of having to do so, nor delighted in the conceit of challenging himself to accomplish more under that principle, than did Shakespeare.
Patricia Belen, Graphic Designer