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Shakespeare's First Folio

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191069280
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's First Folio written by Emma Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now spread around the world about their eventful lives. From ink blots to pet paws, from annotations to wineglass rings, First Folios teem with evidence of their place in different contexts with different priorities. This study offers new ways to understand Shakespeare's reception and the history of the book. Unlike previous scholarly investigations of the First Folio, it is not concerned with the discussions of how the book came into being, the provenance of its texts, or the technicalities of its production. Instead, it reanimates, in narrative style, the histories of this book, paying close attention to the details of individual copies now located around the world - their bindings, marginalia, general condition, sales history, and location - to discuss five major themes: owning, reading, decoding, performing, and perfecting. This is a history of the book that consolidated Shakespeare's posthumous reputation: a reception history and a study of interactions between owners, readers, forgers, collectors, actors, scholars, booksellers, and the book through which we understand and recognize Shakespeare.

The Book of William

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596911956
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Book of William written by Paul Collins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Bard's competitively pursued First Folio traces the author's travels from the site of a Sotheby auction to regions in Asia, throughout which he investigated the roles played by those who have sought and owned the Folios.

The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851245987
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio written by Emma Smith and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and updated edition of Shakespeare's First Folio that explains the significance of the iconic publication. The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio offers the first comprehensive biography of the earliest collected edition of Shakespeare's plays. In November 1623, the book arrived in the bookshop of the London publisher Edward Blount at the Black Bear. Long in the making, Master William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies--as the First Folio was then known--appeared seven years after Shakespeare's death. Nearly one thousand pages in length, the collection comprised thirty-six plays, half of which had never been previously published. Yet no fanfare surrounded the initial publication of Shakespeare's First Folio--no queue of eager readers, no launch to the top of the best-seller list. Nevertheless, it is hard to overstate the importance of this literary, cultural, and commercial moment. Emma Smith tells the story of the First Folio's origins, locating it within the social and political context of Jacobean London and bringing in the latest scholarship on the seventeenth-century book trade. Generously illustrated in color with key pages from the publication and comparative works, this new edition combines the 2016 discovery of a hitherto unknown edition of the First Folio at Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute with the human, artistic, economic and technical stories of the birth of this landmark publication--and the birth of Shakespeare's towering reputation.

The Shakespeare First Folio: A new worldwide census of first folios

Author : Anthony James West
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198187684
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare First Folio: A new worldwide census of first folios written by Anthony James West and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major reference book for Shakespeare scholars and bibliographers is in the second part of the story of "the greatest book" in the English language. Listing 228 copies of the First Folio, the Census gives concise descriptions of each, covering condition, special features, provenance, and binding. It traces the search for copies, deals with doubtful identifications, describes the tests for inclusion, and presents details of missing copies.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107098785
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio written by Emma Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international team of scholars covers every aspect of one of the most famous books in the English language.

The Millionaire and the Bard

Author : Andrea Mays
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143911823X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Millionaire and the Bard written by Andrea Mays and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the romantic story of the making of the First Folio, relating how a few years after a virtually unknown Shakespeare died, his former partners, friends and actors gathered his surviving manuscripts, unaware that they would create one of the most important English-language books ever published.

The Book of Will

Author : Lauren Gunderson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822237725
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Will written by Lauren Gunderson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.

Collecting Shakespeare

Author : Stephen H. Grant
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421411873
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Collecting Shakespeare written by Stephen H. Grant and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-04-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world. In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug. Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging, and storing all manner of items about Shakespeare and his era. Emily earned a master's degree in Shakespeare studies. The frugal couple worked passionately as a tight-knit team during the Gilded Age, financing their hobby with the fortune Henry earned as president of Standard Oil Company of New York, where he was a trusted associate of John D. Rockefeller Sr. While a number of American universities offered to house the collection, the Folgers wanted to give it to the American people. Afraid the price of antiquarian books would soar if their names were revealed, they secretly acquired prime real estate on Capitol Hill near the Library of Congress. They commissioned the design and construction of an elegant building with a reading room, public exhibition hall, and the Elizabethan Theatre. The Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated on the Bard's birthday, April 23, 1932. The library houses 82 First Folios, 275,000 books, and 60,000 manuscripts. It welcomes more than 100,000 visitors a year and provides professors, scholars, graduate students, and researchers from around the world with access to the collections. It is also a vibrant center in Washington, D.C., for cultural programs, including theater, concerts, lectures, and poetry readings. The library provided Grant with unprecedented access to the primary sources within the Folger vault. He draws on interviews with surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.

The Applause First Folio of Shakespeare in Modern Type

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557833334
Total Pages : 1194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book The Applause First Folio of Shakespeare in Modern Type written by William Shakespeare and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). This landmark publication is printed in clear, legible type. Each play has its own comprehensive introduction as well as extensive, expert annotations. Highlighted areas show where lines have been altered over time and also shows where verse has been changed to prose in the past (but not here!) The original compositions are marked and folio clues are highlighted.

The Shakespeare Thefts

Author : Eric Rasmussen
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230341209
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare Thefts written by Eric Rasmussen and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part literary detective story, part Shakespearean lore, The Shakespeare Thefts will charm the Bard's many fans. The first edition of Shakespeare's collected works, the First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the most valuable books in the world and has historically proven to be an attractive target for thieves. Of the 160 First Folios listed in a census of 1902, 14 were subsequently stolen-and only two of these were ever recovered. In his efforts to catalog all these precious First Folios, renowned Shakespeare scholar Eric Rasmussen embarked on a riveting journey around the globe, involving run-ins with heavily tattooed criminal street gangs in Tokyo, bizarre visits with eccentric, reclusive billionaires, and intense battles of wills with secretive librarians. He explores the intrigue surrounding the Earl of Pembroke, arguably Shakespeare's boyfriend, to whom the First Folio is dedicated and whose personal copy is still missing. He investigates the uncanny sequence of events in which a wealthy East Coast couple drowned in a boating accident and the next week their First Folio appeared for sale in Kansas. We hear about Folios that were censored, the pages ripped out of them, about a volume that was marked in red paint-or is it blood?-on every page; and of yet another that has a bullet lodged in its pages.

Shakespeare's Syndicate

Author : Ben Higgins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192848844
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Syndicate written by Ben Higgins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1623 a team of stationers published what has become the most famous volume in English literary history: William Shakespeare's First Folio. Who were these publishers and how might their stories be bound up with those found within the book they created? Ben Higgins offers a radical new account of the First Folio by focusing on these four publishing businesses that made the volume. By moving between close scrutiny of the Folio publishers and a wider view of their significance within the early modern book trade, Higgins uses Shakespeare's stationers to explore the 'literariness' of the Folio; to ask how stationers have shaped textual authority; to argue for the interpretive potential of the 'minor' Shakespearean bookseller; and to examine the topography of Shakespearean publication. Drawing on a host of fresh primary evidence from a wide range of sources, including court records, manuscript letters, bookseller's bills, and the literature itself, Shakespeare's Syndicate illuminates our understanding of how this landmark volume was made and what it has meant to scholars since. Moreover, it models exciting new ways of working with stationers and of reading the event of early modern publication itself. This innovative study demonstrates that despite four hundred years of history, the volume at the centre of Shakespeare's canon continues to generate new stories.

Shakespeare's First Folio

Author : Raymond Crompton Rhodes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's First Folio written by Raymond Crompton Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare's First Texts

Author : Neil Freeman
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
ISBN 13 : 9781557833358
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's First Texts written by Neil Freeman and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows the difference between the way the texts of Shakespeare were first presented to the world, and the highly different way they appear now.

The Tempest

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781095049419
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book The Tempest written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete and unabridged paperback edition. The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610-1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone. After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, a complex and contradictory character, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants -- Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel, an airy spirit. The play contains music and songs that evoke the spirit of enchantment on the island. It explores many themes including magic, betrayal, revenge, and family. In act four, a wedding masque serves as a play-within-the play, and contributes spectacle, allegory, and elevated language. Though The Tempest is listed in the First Folio as the first of Shakespeare's comedies, it deals with both tragic and comic themes, and modern criticism has created a category of romance for this and others of Shakespeare's late plays. The Tempest has been subjected to varied interpretations--from those that see it as a fable of art and creation, with Prospero representing Shakespeare, and Prospero's renunciation of magic signaling Shakespeare's farewell to the stage, to interpretations that consider it an allegory of European man colonizing foreign lands. Via Wikipedia.

The Norton Facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393039854
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Norton Facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was first published in 1968, this justly famous First Folio of Shakespeare's plays--a full-sized photographic facsimile that has won the admiration of actors and scholars throughout the world--set a new standard for scholarly accuracy, introducing, among other features, a standard system of reference, "through line numbering", based on the lines printed in the 1623 edition. Slipcase.

As you like it. Twelfth night

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book As you like it. Twelfth night written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608

Author : Thomas Trevilian
Publisher : Jordan Schnitzer Museum
ISBN 13 : 9780295986593
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608 written by Thomas Trevilian and published by Jordan Schnitzer Museum. This book was released on 2007 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elaborately decorated commonplace book containing, among other things: Bible verses, calendar of saints' days, lists of concepts (e.g. Nine muses, Seven deadly sins, Nine worthies, Five alls), thumbnail biographies of the pre-Norman rulers of England, decorative initials, crewelwork motifs for caps, designs for mazes and knot gardens, and the mayors of London 1558-1602 with highlights of their time in office.