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Date/Time
Friday, November 15, 2019
2:00 pm PST – 4:45 pm PST
Location
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
A symposium organized by Helen Deutsch and Anna Chen (University of California, Los Angeles)
In fall 2009 Paul Chrzanowski, a physicist and bibliophile in California, donated his collection of seventy-two early English books to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Nine additional titles followed in 2014, and twenty-one more in 2018. It is the most valuable and important donation made to the Clark Library since the original donation of the founder’s collection, deeded in 1926 and transferred to UCLA’s custody in 1934.
Paul Chrzanowski set out nearly thirty years ago to acquire texts that Shakespeare likely read or could have read in some form. Some are identified as source books that Shakespeare used to write his plays; many are not but remain important to the development of the English language and literature as well as societal changes in the English Tudor period in which Shakespeare lived. This important collection includes older literary texts by Boccaccio, Gower, and Chaucer; English translations of classical works and European poetry, including Plutarch, Tasso, and Ariosto; and works of immediate predecessors and contemporaries such as Sydney, Spenser, Marlowe, Jonson, and Drayton. The Paul Chrzanowski Collection is also strong in religious texts—from pre-Reformation Catholic treatises to English Bibles and a Book of Common Prayer—and English Chronicles—from Higden’s Polychronicon to Holinshed.
This symposium, which was held on November 15, 2019, celebrated the Paul Chrzanowski Collection with a series of brief presentations by UCLA faculty, librarians, graduate students, and special guests, who each spoke about their favorite items in the collection. Paul Chrzanowski presented closing remarks and reflected upon the works discussed. A selection of works from the collection was displayed before and after the presentations.
Speakers’ remarks can be accessed by clicking on the links in the program schedule below.
For additional information about the Chrzanowski Collection, please see
https://clarklibrary.ucla.edu/collections/tudor/chrzanowski/
https://www.1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/newsletter59.pdf
Program
1:30 p.m.
Selections from the Paul Chrzanowski Collection displayed in the North Book Room
2:00 p.m.
Welcome
Helen Deutsch, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and Department of English, UCLA
Anna Chen, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA
2:05 p.m.
Panel One
3:00 p.m.
Q & A
3:15 p.m.
Coffee Break
3:30 p.m.
Panel Two
4:20 p.m.
Q & A
4:35 p.m.
Paul Chrzanowski, Bibliophile and Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Closing Remarks
4:50 p.m.
Reception
Selections from the Paul Chrzanowski Collection displayed in the North Book Room
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