Segment 1: Breaking News Story
Kim: And in other news, in Pasadena, CA, in the Huntington
Library, 4 lost Shakespeare plays have been discovered. News Correspondent Moriah Manwerring has the
story.
Moriah: Here in Pasadena, CA, the Huntington Library has always
been famous for its extensive collection of rare
books, manuscripts, prints, photographs, maps, and other materials in the
fields of British and American history.
The Library collections range in time
period from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. The greatest concentration is
in the English Renaissance, about 1500 to 1641.
Much of the content for the library was purchased back in the
1890s by the library’s founder Henry E. Huntington. Recently, horticulture expert Dr. Dan Adcock
was taking advantage of the library’s ancient collection of horticulture
documentation, and discovered something remarkable. Dan, would you mind telling us what happened?
Dan: I was looking through one of the really large portfolios on
horticulture they have here, discovered that some of the sections were
missing. I spoke with the horticulture curator
and he told me that there was a duplicate of this particular portfolio they
kept in the vault. We opened it up and
as I was going through this duplicate book which quite obviously had not been
opened for many years, towards the back I came across a collection of older
looking documents; they looked like they were manuscripts from some kind of
play or something. I asked the curator about
the documents; she was baffled. We
contacted the manuscript section of the library, and after some precursory
examination, they’re saying it looks like Shakespeare!
Moriah: Wow, that’s a
pretty incredible discovery! Kim, back
to you.
Kim: Thanks Moriah. After
only a couple days of analysis, the results are still inconclusive as to the
origin of this play, but the Shakespeare world is abuzz with the news of this
possibility. Experts are performing ink
and carbon tests; handwriting and manuscript experts are pouring over this
recently discovered text, trying to piece together what really we have
here. But an initial examination it
looks like there were pieces from 4 separate plays that quite possibly might be
Shakespeare originals. We’ll have more
as this story continues to unfold.
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