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Excerpt: "Shakespeare's Book" by Chris Laoutaris
Shakespeare's Book
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Excerpt: "Shakespeare's Book" by Chris Laoutaris

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Chris Laoutaris explores the Shakespearean printing mystery behind the Pavier-Jaggard Quartos, published a few years before the First Folio.

“The book of his good acts”: Shakespeare’s First Folio onstage and on the page
Austin Tichenor as Richard Burbage
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“The book of his good acts”: Shakespeare’s First Folio onstage and on the page

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Folger Finds: A carved oak casket for holding a Shakespeare First Folio
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Folger Finds: A carved oak casket for holding a Shakespeare First Folio

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Casket, carved in an Elizabethan style 1866.Imagine buying a book and having the queen of England give you a special case in which to store it! That’s what happened after wealthy heiress Angela Burdett-Coutts purchased a Shakespeare First Folio in…

Up Close: Shakespeare's First Folio
First Folio title page
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Up Close: Shakespeare's First Folio

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Get an up-close look at the title page of one of the Folger’s 82 First Folios and learn more about it by clicking through captions that zoom in on different parts of the page.

The Book of Will: An imagined backstory for the Shakespeare First Folio
The Book of Will
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The Book of Will: An imagined backstory for the Shakespeare First Folio

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The Book of Will, a new play by Lauren Gunderson, explores the back-story of how Shakespeare’s friends assembled his plays into the book we know today as the First Folio, without which we might have forever lost plays such as…

Folger copy 54: The First Folio as family scrapbook
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Folger copy 54: The First Folio as family scrapbook

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Kathleen Lynch

One the First Folio’s owners, Captain Charles Hutchinson, clearly valued the book as a reflection on his family’s place in English history. Not only did he restore it, but he also treated it as a scrapbook of sorts, working in details and documents related to his family history.

Summer memories from the First Folio tour: Ohio, North Dakota, Alaska, and Colorado
First Folio at CU Art Museum
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Summer memories from the First Folio tour: Ohio, North Dakota, Alaska, and Colorado

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Esther French

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” It may be October, but we’re feeling a little nostalgic for all the places our First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare touring exhibition traveled this summer. See a few social media highlights…

Shakespeare's First Folio: The playlist
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Shakespeare's First Folio: The playlist

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Esther French

Curious about the book that gave us Shakespeare? We’ve assembled a playlist of seven Shakespeare Unlimited podcast episodes about the First Folio. Without this first collected edition of Shakespeare’s works, published in 1623, we might not have such famous plays as…

Comic book casts Shakespeare's First Folio in a horror story
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Comic book casts Shakespeare's First Folio in a horror story

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Esther French

Cue the scary music! A new comic book injects a little horror and occult magic into the story of the First Folio, in an effort to make Shakespeare more accessible to a younger generation. 13th Night was written to accompany…

Creating Shakespeare's First Folio
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Creating Shakespeare's First Folio

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A First Folio at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Photo by Lloyd Wolf. Imagine a world without Macbeth, Twelfth Night, or Julius Caesar. We likely wouldn’t have half of Shakespeare’s plays without the First Folio. Who was responsible for making this book,…

A behind-the-scenes tour of the Folger conservation lab
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A behind-the-scenes tour of the Folger conservation lab

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Renate Mesmer. Photo by Lloyd Wolf. Up on the third floor of the Folger Shakespeare Library, conservators work meticulously with rare books and other collection materials: preserving, repairing, preparing for display, and packaging for travel. Renate Mesmer, head of conservation,…

'Sweetly Writ': King Lear and the First Folio in Oregon
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'Sweetly Writ': King Lear and the First Folio in Oregon

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Barry Kraft as Lear in King Lear, produced by Southern Oregon University, Oregon Center for the Arts. (Credit: Prechtel photo) What can we learn from Shakespeare’s revisions to his plays, and what does that mean for the actors and directors…

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