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May 31, 2024 · The opening phrase printed in William Shakespeare’s First Folio, “To the Reader,” by playwright Ben Johnson, urges readers to “look, not on his picture, but his book.”. For readers seeking to know Shakespeare beyond the page, the Library’s Rare Book Librarian of the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Division Kyle Triplett ...
May 29, 2024 · First page of The Taming of the Shrew from the First Folio (1623) The 1594 quarto of A Shrew was printed by Peter Short for Cuthbert Burbie. It was republished in 1596 (again by Short for Burbie), and 1607 by Valentine Simmes for Nicholas Ling. The Shrew was not published until the First Folio in 1623.
May 30, 2024 · The first page printed in the Second Folio of 1632 17th and 18th centuries. During the years of the Puritan Interregnum when the theatres were closed (1642–1660), the comic subplot of Bottom and his compatriots was performed as a droll. Drolls were comical playlets, often adapted from the subplots of Shakespearean and other plays, that could ...
May 23, 2024 · Jonson's First Folio poem is the longest. Hugh Holland was a Welsh-born, Cambridge educated, poet and travelled throughout Europe and the middle east. His First Folio poem is a sonnet 14 lines in length. Leonard Digges was an Oxford educated poet and translator. His father, Thomas, was a famous astronomer. His First Folio poem is 22 lines long.
May 13, 2024 · It was published in the First Folio of 1623 from a transcript, by Ralph Crane (scrivener of the King’s Men), of an authorial manuscript or possibly the playbook. One of Shakespeare’s final plays, The Winter’s Tale is a romantic comedy with elements of tragedy.
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May 30, 2024 · The first edition of Shakespeare's plays edited by Samuel Johnson and with his c.73 page introduction. Outside of the Folio editions of Shakespeare, this is considered to be the most important edition of his plays and it forms the basis of modern Shakespeare scholarship and most later editions.
