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• Wed, April 6, 3pm-6pm Leeward Community College, Lab Theatre
• Thu, April 7, 6pm-9pm University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Kennedy Theatre Studio S
• Sun, April 10, 5pm-8pm Windward Community College, Hale Palanakila Room 224
• Sat, April 16, 2pm-5pm The ARTS at Marks Garage, 1159 Nu‘uanu Ave.

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Confirmed presenters include Supreme Court Justice Breyer; Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Jane Chu; Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, William “Bro” Adams; actor and President Obama’s appointed Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, Kal Penn; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Clarence Page; playwright Octavio Solis; and the Reduced Shakespeare Company, the hilarious comedy troupe behind The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Right after the hour-long program, Book TV is hosting a short call-in show to answer questions from across the country about Shakespeare. An invitation is available to share your personal experiences and connections with Shakespeare.

The Sidney Stern Memorial Trust has providing funding support for security enhancements during the Hawai‘i exhibition.

“Shakespeare’s First Folio: The Book’s Own Story” This talk provides an overview of the book that will be on display for a month in Honolulu. The First Folio was a risky venture when it was printed in 1623, because it was by far the most expensive book of plays ever offered to the English public. Despite Shakespeare’s strong reputation, the publishers could not be sure it would sell. Plays were considered lowbrow entertainment, and single-volume playbooks had been banned from the best library in Oxford. The book’s compilers chose to publish Shakespeare’s plays in the format of more prestigious works, a large folio volume, and to place the most recent plays in the most conspicuous positions, framing them with ones that called attention to the playwright’s own art. This collection gives us 18 plays we never would have had without it as well as revised versions of those previously published. More than that, it preserves for posterity some of the most moving and brilliant stories that have ever been told. The story of the book itself is also worth telling, and that will be the focus here.

• Professor Emerita Valerie Wayne
• Professor Paul Mitri
• Professor Puakea Nogelmeier
• Associate Professor Mark Lawhorn

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“Hoonaueueihe, Ka Haku Moolelo Kaulana Loa o Enelani: Shakespeare in the Nineteenth-Century Hawaiian Language Newspapers.” An overview of how Shakespeare’s works enter into the pages of Hawaiian Kingdom and Territorial newspapers, 1850-1925. This talk will examine the translation and serialization of certain Shakespeare plays taken from Charles & Mary Lamb’s prose adaptations, making note of the newspaper editors’ purposes in publishing these works as well as the larger context of newspaper serialization of “kaao” (legends) and “moolelo” (histories/stories). These kaao and mo‘olelo publications in the newspapers were important contributions to the Hawaiian Kingdom’s vibrant, cosmopolitan public sphere emerging in the mid-nineteenth-century. Hawaiians playfully translated Shakespeare’s name as “Hoonaueueihe,” going beyond the usual transliteration of English authors’ names, arguably because they recognized in that name and his texts a familiar, pleasurable word-wit and a cherished insight into personal and public politics. By reading the traces of Hoonaueueihe in the Hawaiian language newspapers and public discourse, we can glimpse a refashioning of Shakespeare for use in an island kingdom centuries and miles away from his own time and home.

Turning the Pages: The Sensory Experience of Books If the play’s the thing, why are we entranced by a 400-year old book publishing the script?

Shakespeare’s plays were meant to be performed, so in some sense any competent edition of the script will do for its players.  What is it about this material artifact, not even in Shakespeare’s hand, that attracts our attention?

Professor Jolly’s presentation will focus on the materiality of the First Folio and why it matters in the transmission of Shakespeare’s plays from the author through handwritten copies to printed editions.  She will explore the move from animal parchment to paper, with samples for participants to touch, and from handwritten script to print font, including a look at what is very likely Shakespeare’s own handwriting.

“Shakespeare’s Quartos and the First Folio”
Relationship between quartos and Folio, examining quarto title pages and Folio front matter.

Mark Lawhorn is Associate Professor of English at Kapi‘olani Community College and Hawai‘i Project Director for The Folger’s First Folio! exhibition. He has performed in the Hawai‘i Shakespeare Festival and coordinates the annual Hawai‘i segment of the ESU National Shakespeare Competition. His work on Shakespeare has appeared in a number of books including Shakespeare and Childhood (Cambridge University Press).

“Shakespeare in Hawai‘i during World War II” The remarkable story of how the U.S. military hired a well-known Shakespearean actor to oversee entertainment for the troops on O‘ahu during WWII and how he brought Shakespeare to the military masses here.

Shakespeare at 400: Why? The year 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. In this lecture, Paul Edmondson, Head of Research and Knowledge at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon, and a prominent Shakespeare scholar, will present his own personally inflected overview of why and how Shakespeare has become mightily prevalent in our world culture. He will also outline the ways The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is marking this very special Shakespearian year, not least by representing the site of Shakespeare’s family home, New Place, in the heart of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Behind the Scenes of the Preservation and Conservation Department at the Folger Shakespeare Library What really happens to the books and how conservators heal their wounds and bring them home. Renate Mesmer, Head of Conservation, Folger Shakespeare Library, will be speaking about the preservation, conservation and the unusual tasks that come to conservators at the Folger. She will show the Folger conservators’ everyday work, some really fun projects, and will give inside details about the recovery of the Durham Folio, about which the BBC made a documentary called Stealing Shakespeare.