At the Folger Shakespeare Library, The Playing's the Thing for Consort From: The Washington Post | Date: October 19, 1995| Author: Joseph McLellan | Copyright 1995 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

The Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill, which celebrated its Oktoberfest last weekend with music from the German Renaissance, was not really built for me and you, but it certainly reaches out to make us feel welcome.

It is a library for highly specialized scholars who research William Shakespeare, the English Renaissance and related subjects, and it has probably the world's finest collection of old books, manuscripts and artifacts related to that field, including a collection o...

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