Pop quiz: What’s the connection between Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln and Northridge? Time’s up! The answer is a wax cylinder recording of actor Edwin Booth (brother of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth) reciting lines from Shakespeare’s “Othello.” The recording was donated to Cal State Northridge, and now it’s part of the exhibition “America’s Shakespeare: The Bard Goes West” at the L.A. Central Library. Listen to it here.
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