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The First Folio was the first folio ever published in England devoted exclusively to plays. Before 1623, about half of Shakespeare’s plays were published in quartos—small, one-play books made by folding sheets of paper twice, to create eight pages per sheet.
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2023年11月28日 · Marking the 400th anniversary of the First Folio, Austin Tichenor compares The Book of Will, Lauren Gunderson’s popular play about the Folio’s creation, with new research shared by Chris Laoutaris in Shakespeare’s Book.
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Notes in Folger First Folio 54, written by a 19th-century member of the Hutchinson family, have helped to shed light on 17th-century author Lucy Hutchinson. A source of inspiration as well as scholarly information, the Folger First Folios have led to many innovative exhibitions, including a 2016 tour of First Folios from the Folger to all 50 ...
Publishing Shakespeare - Folger Shakespeare Library
The First Folio. Seven years after Shakespeare’s death, John Heminge and Henry Condell, his friends and colleagues in the King’s Men acting company, collected almost all of his plays in a folio edition, now called the First Folio. The First Folio groups the plays for the first time into comedies, histories, and tragedies.
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2013年4月22日 · See Peter Blayney’s The First Folio of Shakespeare (Folger 1991) (and linked below) for an overview of this, Charlton Hinman’s The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare (Clarendon P, 1963) for a detailed explanation of such changes, and Eric Rasmussen and Anthony James West’s The Shakespeare First Folios: A ...
Publishing Shakespeare's First Folio, with Chris Laoutaris
2023年5月9日 · LAOUTARIS: One of my first experiences—or certainly I think for me the most intimate experience—was the Padua First Folio, which incidentally is the only First Folio in a European city in which a Shakespeare play is set, which I think is really interesting. I was allowed privileged access to this at the university in Padua.
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The First Folio was produced in William and Isaac Jaggard’s printing house between 1622 and 1623. Early modern printing houses were noisy, smelly, crowded spaces, requiring long hours of repetitive hard labor over the hand-presses.
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About the First Folio. The first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays was printed in 1623, seven years after his death. While the book’s formal title is Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies: published according to the true …
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2023年5月9日 · 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,…
400 Years of Shakespeare's First Folio - Folger Shakespeare Library
2023年11月7日 · A new edition of Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book is out now from Oxford University Press. This episode was produced by Matt Frassica. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster. Ben Lauer is the web producer, with help from Leonor Fernandez.