仏蘭西でシェークスピア - Living, Loving, Thinking, Again

Kim Willsher “Shakespeare First Folio found in French library” http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/nov/25/shakespeare-first-folio-found-in-french-library

ウィリアム・シェークスピア *1の所謂First Folioが仏蘭西のSaint-Omerという町*2の図書館*3で発見された。First FolioすなわちMr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragediesは著者が死んで７年後の1623年に刊行され、シェークスピアのほぼ全ての戯曲が収録されている。ただし、今回発見された本は30頁の欠落があり、タイトル・ページもない。

The First Folio, entitled Mr William Shakespeares (sic) Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, was edited and published in 1623 – seven years after the author died – by his colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell. It included almost all of the plays widely accepted to have been written by Shakespeare and is credited with being the reason his literary legacy survived.
In the 16th century, Saint-Omer was home to an important Jesuit order that welcomed Roman Catholic clergy fleeing Protestant persecution in England. The First Folio discovered in the town is thought to have been brought to France during that era and held in the Jesuit library until the French Revolution when the order’s collection was confiscated and used as the basis for a public library.

ところで、仏蘭西とシェークスピアということで先ず思い出してしまうのは、ゴダールの『はなればなれに』に出てくる妙な英会話学校なのだった。

はなればなれに [DVD]

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発売日: 2001/12/22
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*2:See eg. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Omer_(Pas-de-Calais) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Omer http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB_%28%E3%83%91%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%89%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E7%9C%8C%29

*3:http://www.bibliotheque-agglo-stomer.fr/bibliotheque-agglo-stomer.fr/