![]() One First Folio sold for nearly $10 million at auction in New York in October 2020, setting a record for a work of literature. "Shakespeare is so much part of our culture, and when you see something like that, and you think it's amazing that it survives, but how wonderful that it has survived," said psychologist Robert Richards, 81. ![]() ![]() We have one tiny bit of the corner of a page missing which has been repaired, but apart from that it's a fantastic copy." Nothing's been made up from another copy. "The copy we have here is regarded as one of the finest in the world. First FolioThe Book That Gave Us Shakespeare, a national traveling exhibition of one of the world’s most treasured books, hits Rhode Island next week with Brown University set to host an array of events and exhibits themed around the Bard. "Without the First Folio, we might have lost most of Shakespeare's heritage," Guildhall Library principal librarian Peter Ross told AFP. Brown University Shakespeare devotees, get ready. None of the dramatist's original manuscripts survive from the time they were written. The First Folio contains 36 plays, including 18 that had not been printed before, such as "Twelfth Night", "Measure for Measure", "Macbeth", Julius Caesar" and "The Tempest".Ĭondell and Heminges divided the plays into comedies, histories and tragedies, shaping the way Shakespeare was performed and understood. The Guildhall Library stands where the folio's editors, Shakespeare's friends Henry Condell and John Heminges, once lived, and opposite the churchyard where they were buried. Others will go on display around the world to mark the anniversary of the publication between now and the end of the year. The edition, published on November 8, 1623, seven years after the playwright's death on April 23, 1616, is one of the best preserved copies in the world. The public was given the chance to see the First Folio held at London's Guildhall Library - for one day only.
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