University Museums at the University of Delaware will soon be host to the original 1623 Shakespeare First Folio, with the national touring exhibition “First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare” ...
A precious First Folio of Shakespeare plays, one of several on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library, has arrived at the San Diego Central Library, where it will remain for the next month in a ...
The public exhibition of First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library will be on display Aug. 9-31 at the CU Art Museum. All the World’s a Page: ...
Four hundred years ago, in 1623, a book of Shakespeare’s plays was published. This wasn’t just any book: It marked the first time all of Shakespeare’s works were published together — no mean feat back ...
Original editions of a rare book known as Shakespeare’s First Folio are touring sites in the U.S. for the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. They represent something of a Bible or Holy Grail ...
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“The first folio of Shakespeare’s plays is one of the most important books ever printed — a real, physical link with one of the greatest authors who ever wrote, published seven years after his death,” ...
The First Folio has been called “the book that gave us Shakespeare.” If that sounds a little dramatic — well, it’s also essentially true, said Sam Lemley. Lemley is the curator of special collections ...
Premieres Friday, Nov. 17, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encore Sunday, Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. on KPBS 2 With only half of Shakespeare’s plays published before his death, often in inaccurate and ...
“To be, or not to be”: It’s a famous line most people recognize from William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” It's been around since the early 1600s and is preserved on the page, along with more of Shakespeare ...
A rare copy of Shakespeare's First Folio, published in 1623, has been found in a stately home on a Scottish island. The remarkable discovery comes as the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death looms on ...
Heminges and Condell, actor colleagues of Shakespeare, took it upon themselves (with assistance, financial and otherwise, we are told, from bookseller Edward Blount) to collect, transcribe and print ...