The First Printing of Shakespeare's Plays On Display in Washington
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2011-08-31/first-printing-shakespeares-plays-display-washington
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Eighteen of Shakespeare's plays--including "Julius Caesar," and "Macbeth"-- survived only because they were included in what became known as the First Folio, a volume of his work published in London in 1623. Over the centuries, the volumes have been sold, lost, re-bound, stolen, and studied. Of the 232 remaining copies, a third of them are collected right here in Washington at the Folger Shakespeare Library, where an exhibition traces some of their extraordinary stories.
Guests
Owen Williams
Co-Curator, Fame, Fortune, Theft: The Shakespeare First Folio; Assistant Director of the Folger Institute.
Barbara Mowat
Co-editor, Folger Shakespeare Library Editions
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If listeners are interested in seeing what a First Folio looks like, the Folger has digitized two of the eighty-two in our collection.
The first is a pdf done of copy number 5; the link brings up not only a full copy of the First Folio but wonderful introductory materials, including Peter Blayney's informative account of the printing of the book: http://bit.ly/FirstFolio
The second is a digitization of copy number 68, and it opens up in Luna, the Library's Digital Image Collection: http://bit.ly/FirstFolio2 (If you have pop-ups blocked on your browser, you might need to turn that off before the link works.)
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