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In 2011, Rasmussen published his book The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios, which was reviewed as "light and lively" and "a highly accessible read". According to Eleanor Brown, "you don’t have to be a Shakespeare fan or a rare book expert to enjoy The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios". [8]
Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare, commonly referred to by modern scholars as the First Folio, [a] published in 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare's death. It is considered one of the most influential books ever published.
It contains 36 plays, 18 of which were printed for the first time. Because Shakespeare was dead, the folio was compiled by John Heminges and Henry Condell (fellow actors in Shakespeare's company), and arranged into comedies, histories and tragedies. The First Folio is generally looked to by actors and directors as the purest form of Shakespeare ...
The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., United States.It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period (1500–1750) in Britain and Europe.
First published in the First Folio: The first recorded performance was by "a company of base and common fellows," mentioned in the Gesta Grayorum ("The Deeds of Gray") as having occurred in Gray's Inn Hall on 28 Dec 1594. The second also took place on "Innocents' Day" but ten years later—in 1604, at Court. [note 2] Summary
On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, rare originals are being displayed and publishers are offering collectors editions of Shakespeare's plays, including one that sells for $1,500.
Mar. 7—"The Book of Will," which opens Friday at the Artistic Civic Theatre, is not only an eloquent argument for the importance of the catharsis provided by theater, but a trip back in time to ...
The Life of King Henry the Fift (Folio) Shakespeare: written 1599, published 1623 The True and Honourable Historie of the Life of Sir John Oldcastle: Anthony Munday, Michael Drayton, Richard Hathwaye and Robert Wilson: published 1600 Henry VI: The First Part of Henry the Sixt: Shakespeare: written c. 1590–91; [86] published 1623