Author: WERKMAN.- VOLIÈRE REEKS 7.- VERKADE, E.-
Title: Shakespeare's Hamlet als leesdrama
Description: (Groningen), In agris occupatis [A.Th.Mooij, W.H.Nagel & W.H.Overbeek], 1944. Original lightcoloured paper covers. The upper cover with the title 'Hamlet'& the author's name 'Eduard Verkade' in bold black lettering. (8 lvs.). [III, 4 - 15, I (colophon) pp.]. (Spine and upper margin front cover some discolouring /browning). (Lim. ed. of 200 copies, the first X copies were numbered and signed.). (The colophon w. an 8 line autograph by Verkade, see note). (Printed title, presentation in ink: '... Hart Nibbrig.') Presented to Hart Nibbrig and w. 8 lines in autograph by Verkade on the colophon page reading: 'Uit Macbeth: Zij sjorden me aan 'n paal vast; vluchten kan 'k niet. 'k moet vechten als een beer, zolang 't spel duurt- Act V sc 7 regel 1 en 2 Kalender spreuk voor heden 27 / 6 / 44 met vr. groeten van Eduard Verkade': De Jong, Het vrije boek in onvrije tijd, item 850: Simoni, Publish and be free, V10: 'An essay written in 1944, with quotations in the translation by Jacobus van Looy. In an introductory note the author compares the horrors and dangers of Shakespeare's time with those of the present and sees in them the explanation of the immediacy of Shakespeare's appeal for present-day readers.': AUB 498: Van Straten, Werkman, de drukker van het paradijs, i.l.c.: Alte Zuithoff, Hendrik Werkman en de Blauwe Schuit, p. 77 & pp. 74 - 78 (on a.o. the Volière Reeks): KB Hoogtepunten, comp. item 92: '...the Volière Reeks, a series of underground publications from the 'agris occupatis' (the occupied land), established by the poet A. Marja [Arend Theodoor Mooij] together with the lawyers W.H.Overbeek and J.B.Charles [W.H.Nagel]. ...': This is the seventh publication of the Volière Reeks, printed in a limited edition of 200 copies [by Werkman?, Zuithoff is very much in doubt about this].

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