—Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus One of the better parts of being a folio hunter is getting to hobnob with Shakespearean actors. For these folks, the folios are not just expensive books: They are a direct line to the Word of the Bard. One of the more amusing stories I’ve heard about the Royal Shakespeare Company has to do with a theft of a First Folio. Well, an unintentional theft. In 1964, three members of Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company traveled to Rome to participate in a Shakespearean recital in the Palazzo Pio, a lavish auditorium near St. Peter’s Basilica built on the ruins of the Temple of Venus, which once crowned a theater complex built by Pompey the Great. They were to perform before Pope Paul VI and an audience of two thousand, including the College of Cardinals and many other dignitaries who were attending the Second Vatican Council (the twenty-first ecumenical council in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, which famously addressed the role of the church in the modern world).
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