As part of “Shakespeare in Miami,” Gail Paster, the former director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C., came to campus to discuss “King Lear” and her ideas on The Bard. The Miami Hurricane: This is really great because as an English major you’re kind of a superstar. What you do and what you’ve been able to do, it’s incredible. Gail Paster: I’ve just had the most wonderful privilege of being the director of an institute like Folger’s. I loved being a professor of English and teaching undergraduates, which I’ve done that for a long time at George Washington University. And eventually, you realize you’ve done what you can in the classroom and, there’s always more wonderful students, but you realize you’ve kind of done it. To be able to get a second chance and have a great second job, which was wonderful. TMH: What were some of the things you did as director? GP: Well, I did a fair amount of repair. The first responsibility of the Director of the Folgers’s Institute is to keep the collections safe, because here you have the world’s largest Shakespeare collection. Here, you have the third largest collection of early printed books, [...]
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