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The Pearce Shakespeare Endowment will host a series of events exploring the making and legacy of the 1611 publication of the “King James” Bible. (Download flyer; poster)
Beginning on Wednesday, November 9, Barret Library will display “Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible.” This traveling exhibition for libraries was organized by theFolger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. It is based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, with assistance from the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas, to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. The traveling exhibition was made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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