Summary:

Shakespeare’s First Folio is a modern term applied by scholars to one
of the world’s most famous books, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies,
Histories, & Tragedies, the collected edition of Shakespeare’s
plays—and one of the highlights of the British Library. Published in
folio form seven years after the playwright’s death by Isaac Iaggard
and Edward Blount, and overseen by Shakespeare’s fellow actors John
Heminge and Henry Condell, the First Folio contains the text of
thirty-six plays, half of which had not been previously published
during the Bard’s lifetime. At last, readers had the plays as they
were actually performed, “where before,” the editors wrote, “you were
abused with diverse, stolen and surreptitious copies, maimed and
deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious imposters. . . .”
Sold for one pound each at the time, this remarkable collection is
invaluable to our understanding of the playwright and our conception
of his canon. The British Library and the Globe Theatre in London
have worked together to produce a series of affordable and
beautifully reproduced facsimile editions of three individual plays
from the book, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, and Romeo and
Juliet. In addition to the text for each play, each title will
include copies of the preliminary pages from the Folio—including the
famous engraved portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout and an
introduction to each individual work by Anthony James West. This
exciting new series presents the authentic First Folio manuscripts in
a collectible format, an eventful publication for the general reader
and Shakespearean scholar alike.

Classification:

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Dewey Class: 822 -- English drama

Book Details:

Physical Description: 8.5"x13.0"x0.5"; 1.2 lb; 48 pages
Edition Info: Hardcover; 2009-01-15

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