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If you had too much money – I really mean too much of it – you could afford editing leisure activities. You would not have to take private trips into space or deep sea, like the rich full idiots of the present time, but could be devoted to pretty literature studies without having to consult the booklets from Reclams Universal Library, with which you always get a little student even at an advanced age.

In the recently finished “Rare Book Fair” in distant Melbourne, an early Shakespeare output, the so-called third folio, was offered from 1664 for $ 2 million. No unusual price for a folio, one of those expenses that after the bard death, from 1623, whose writings were collected in circulation and often served as a model for later editions. The third folio is also one of the rarities because a good part of the circulation in the great fire of London in 1666 fell victim to the flames.

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So do you finally have to internalize the rules of capital and place a copy on the home shelf? Of course not. There are considerable facsimile editions of Shakespeare Folio, which have composed the sides in the best condition into the best possible reprint. They too are expensive enough. And for the economical reader, Frank Günther’s very good translation (along with English original) in the DTV paperback editions is the right choice, also better handhable than an important foliant. Or you can be relied on the beauty of language in the transfer by Thomas Brasch.

And yet Shakespeare is rarely in the theater, less often in the film, as beautifully staged as in this early book edition. The simple portrait of the mysteriously unknown author, which also adorns this column. Jewelry but not excessive initials that initiate the pieces. The Latin count of every act and one scene. The concentrated but not urgent presentation of world literature. Clear and beautiful.

It is dispensable that books can be so beautiful. Like any luxury. But while the German left-wing intellectuals (are there are still?) Run on the Malik-Sprienschie, of course only with dust, and the sensitive citizens’ children with conscientiously managed household books together in the editions of the island library and the supposed free spirits with a penchant for provocation are clearly visible in the living room, I stay with the enjoyed Shakespeare. The folio editions are more of a case for the museum. But I can also enjoy a band illustrated by Hans Scheib with Shakespeare’s “How you like it” in Heiner Müller’s translation.

If you only leave it back, Hermann Hesses Poem reminded a friend with the poem book “that ends with the verses:” We are taken into account, / that we are responsible for accounting, / we are probably easier to do with such tand.