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How Shakespeare's First Folio Became a Star
Shakespeare Unlimited

How Shakespeare's First Folio Became a Star

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 56  Today, the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s works, printed in 1623, can sell for millions of dollars. But the First Folio wasn’t always valued so highly. In this podcast episode, two experts in the First Folio…

Comic book casts Shakespeare's First Folio in a horror story
13th Night Comic Book
Shakespeare and Beyond

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
Shakespeare Unlimited

Creating Shakespeare's First Folio

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 47 We likely wouldn’t have half of Shakespeare’s plays without the First Folio of 1623. Imagine a world without Macbeth, Twelfth Night, or Julius Caesar. Our guest on this episode of Shakespeare Unlimited is Emma Smith, a…

Creating Shakespeare's First Folio
First Folio
Shakespeare and Beyond

Creating Shakespeare's First Folio

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Esther French

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,…

Inside the Folger Conservation Lab
Shakespeare Unlimited

Inside the Folger Conservation Lab

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 44 The Folger is the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, and the crown jewels of that collection are the 82 First Folios. To celebrate 400 years of Shakespeare, eighteen of these rare books are traveling the country throughout…

A behind-the-scenes tour of the Folger conservation lab
Shakespeare and Beyond

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

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Esther French

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
Shakespeare and Beyond

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

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Esther French

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…

Andrea Mays: The Millionaire and the Bard
Shakespeare and Beyond

Andrea Mays: The Millionaire and the Bard

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Esther French

Henry Clay Folger paid a world record price for a book—not once, but twice—as he became the world’s leading collector of Shakespeare First Folios. In this episode from Shakespeare Unlimited, economist and author Andrea Mays talks with Neva Grant about…

Andrea Mays on The Millionaire and the Bard
Shakespeare Unlimited

Andrea Mays on The Millionaire and the Bard

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 36 Henry Clay Folger paid a world record price for a book—not once, but twice—as he became the world’s leading collector of Shakespeare First Folios. The Folger Shakespeare Library celebrated its 90th birthday this past April. Did…

Editing Shakespeare
Shakespeare Unlimited

Editing Shakespeare

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 31 Just what exactly does it mean to edit the works of Shakespeare, particularly since we have no surviving manuscript copies? Why is it that new editions of the plays continue to be published? In this episode…

Louis Butelli: Introducing Gravedigger’s Tale
Folger Spotlight

Louis Butelli: Introducing Gravedigger’s Tale

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Louis Butelli

Louis Butelli Hello, dear readers of the Folger Production Diary! This is your friend Louis Butelli writing you once again. How’ve you been? The reason for this entry is to proudly announce a brand new collaboration between myself, director Robert…

A New First Folio Discovery
Shakespeare Unlimited

A New First Folio Discovery

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 17 In the fall of 2014, the world learned of a remarkable discovery: An old book in a French library, acquired in the 1790s, was identified as an unknown copy of the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare—the…

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