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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.
The book, which was printed almost 400 years ago, is one of under 20 left in private hands, according to auction house Sotheby’s.
Oriel College, Oxford, raised a conjectured £3.5 million from the sale of its First Folio to Sir Paul Getty in 2003. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 2016, the Folger Shakespeare Library toured some of its 82 First Folios for display in all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. [44]
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 1647 folio was published by the booksellers Humphrey Moseley and Humphrey Robinson.It was modelled on the precedents of the first two folio collections of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623 and 1632, and the first two folios of the works of Ben Jonson of 1616 and 1640–1.
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Blayney is currently an adjunct professor of English at the University of Toronto. [2]He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997 for research in bibliography. [3]Blayney is a distinguished member of the Folger Institute where has lectured on "The Shakespeare First Folio, 1622-1930," directed the seminar, Printing and Publishing in the Age of Shakespeare, and served as a faculty member for ...
Shakespeare's First Folio was compiled by his friends and published on Nov. 8, 1623, seven years after his death. Some 750 copies are believed to have been printed, containing 36 of the 37 plays ...