5/20/2023 0 Comments The works of shakespeare![]() ![]() If you crave an original copy, the bill will prove steeper. Readers can now access a digital reproduction of the Bodleian’s “Arch.G c.7” at any time, for nothing: one of several Folios online. The First Folio fixed the Shakespeare canon for posterity (it lacks only “Pericles” and “The Two Noble Kinsmen”) and even-via Martin Droeshout’s frontispiece of the balding playwright-his physical image. But 18 Folio items had never seen print before-including “Julius Caesar”, “Macbeth”, “The Tempest” and “Twelfth Night”. Fifty small “quarto” editions of individual Shakespeare plays appeared between 15, and “Henry IV” and “Richard III” proved particularly popular. This large-format volume, around 950 pages long, not only gathered 36 out of Shakespeare’s 38 surviving plays, it was also the cornerstone of his subsequent renown, which 400 years later extends to parts of the world he never knew existed. The so-called First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays soon entered the Bodleian’s collection. ![]()
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