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Archive for April, 2009

• Shakespeare in Special Collections
  Posted April 21, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  The birth of William Shakespeare is traditionally dated to April 23, 1564.  We know he was born in late April because parish records in his birthplace of Stratford show that he was baptized on April 26.  It has been convenient to speculate that Shakespeare’s birthday is April 23 since we know he died on that [...]

• New works in the Robert Burns Collection
  Posted April 3, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  Since 2009 is the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns’s birth, publishers are issuing many new biographies, critical evaluations, and editions of his poems to mark the occasion.  The BYU Burns Collection has received a number of new books on Burns in just the past three months: Biographies and Criticism: Robert Crawford, The Bard: Robert Burns, [...]