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 | | The significant annotations all appear in the first section of the volume, comprising of the 'comedies'. | | | However, while the Shakespeare First Folio might not be an outstanding example of seventeenth century printing, its cultural and literary significance is undisputed, and it remains one of the most important and sought after books produced in England since printing began. | | | The July book of the month is Glasgow University's copy of the First Folio edition of the collected plays of William Shakespeare, published in 1623 some seven years after Shakespeare's death. |
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http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/july2001.html
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| | William Shakespeare - The First Folio |
| | The "First Folio" is of major importance to William Shakespeare as it is the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays without which there would be no William Shakespeare. | | | The engraving of the Bard's image on the First Folio is the subject of much debate and controversy. | | | Mystery of the Engraving on the First Folio - Martin Droeshout engraved portrait of William Shakespeare - Identity Problem |
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http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-first-folio.htm
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| | The First Folio (1623) |
| | This is the first mention of that facility in writing that led to the myth of Shakespeare as the poet of Nature, therefore unlettered-- and therefore not Shakespeare at all. | | | Had the First Folio not been published, we would have lacked three of Shakespeare's last plays (Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest), four tragedies (Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus), and two of the mature comedies (As You Like It and Twelfth Night). | | | The "First Folio" was the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays. |
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| | William Shakespeare The First Folio |
| | A Fourth Folio was published in 1685 and was the last of the folio editions of the plays. | | | The Third Folio was published in 1663 and it contained corrections to the text of the Second Folio but also introduced errors not found in earlier editions. | | | In other cases the quartos were revised using some form of authoritative manuscript, for example, Shakespeare's original manuscript (often referred to as the "foul papers") or a prompt book, or version of the play used by the actors. |
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http://www.enotes.com/william-shakespeare/47410/print
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books LRB essay Folio freaks: the fetishisation of Shakespeare's First Folio |
| | The second edition corrects many more errors than it commits, and as well as carefully reprinting everything in the First Folio contributes some desirable new material to its preliminaries (including a sonnet, 'On Shakespeare', which is the first published work by John Milton and thus a collector's item in its own right). | | | At the same price as its predecessors, the Third Folio offered even better value, and its superiority was immediately recognised by the Bodleian Library, which promptly sold off the copy of the First Folio which the Jaggards had deposited in 1624 and invested in this edition instead. | | | Michael Dobson is the general editor, with Stanley Wells, of The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare and the author of The Making of the National Poet. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,590227,00.html
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| | The Telegraph - Calcutta : International |
| | The First Folio will be kept with the rest of Getty’s famed collection of books and manuscripts in the library of Wormsley Lodge, his 2,500-acre estate in Oxfordshire. | | | The book bought by Sir Paul is a copy of one of the first editions of Shakespeare’s plays ever published and was printed eight years after the playwright died. | | | The book, which was printed in 1623 and has been kept in the college’s library for over two centuries, was bought by Sir Paul Getty, the philanthropist, in a private deal in New York. |
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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1030303/asp/foreign/story_1729424.asp
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| | Peachum Article |
| | Whatever the truth, a folio of this magnitude associated with arguably the greatest name in English literature not be hidden from others in the book trade for long. | | | The most important point concerning this dedication is that politically astute persons knew that Edward de Vere was held in low regard by this particular branch of the Howard family given that he had betrayed his Catholic cousins in the 1580s as traitors to Queen Elizabeth to save his own neck. | | | It was as well known as the First Folio because there were three other editions in 1627, 1634, and 1661. |
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| | Sotheby's to sell first folio of Shakespeare |
| | This exceptional copy of the First Folio is significantly enhanced by its extensive markings and annotations which shed new light on the folio’s provenance, date of binding and early readership. | | | THE MOST IMPORTANT book in English literature, the First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays (1623), will be offered for sale in Sotheby’s sale of English Literature and History in London on Thursday, July 13, 2006. | | | No contemporary manuscripts of any of Shakespeare’s plays survive (with the possible exception of two pages in the collaborative play Sir Thomas More) and, although half of the contents of the First Folio had previously appeared in either ‘good’ or ‘bad’ quarto editions, the remaining 18 have survived only because the First Folio was published. |
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http://www.news-antique.com/?id=781290
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| | Much a do about Shakespeare's First Folio. 25/09/2004. ABC News Online |
| | Little did she realise the dusty tome she eventually collected was one of the few first edition collections of William Shakespeare's plays, described as perhaps the most important book in the English language. | | | The Shakespeare First Folio of Comedies, Histories and Tragedies from 1623 belonged to a widow in London who died in 2002, leaving no known family. | | | The mother of three from Stockport, north-west England, now plans to auction the book, only six of which are known to exist in private hands, she said. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200409/s1206960.htm
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| | It is apparent that the Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies in the First Folio correspond to Bacon's division of knowledge (in his Advancement of Learning) of Imagination (poetry), Memory (History), and Reason (Philosophy). | | | The first thing he tells us in his, "Case for Francis Bacon" chapter is that "leading authorities, almost without exception, reject the theory of Bacon's authorship." So much for impartiality. | | | He depicts the soul body in the first set and the etheric double in the second set. |
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| | Shakespeare's Son on Death Row? |
| | The first imprisonment of both the 3rd Earl of Southampton and the 18th Earl of Oxford had occurred in the summer of 1621, shortly following the downfall of Francis Bacon over bribery in the conduct of his office--with, interestingly, Southampton leading the opposition against Bacon. | | | This characterization by Middlesex is quite interesting, since the use of the word "mutineers" implies the absolute authority of the King and his decisions--the captain of the ship of state--even as a majority of his subjects and of the peerage were clearly against the course being set for the nation through the proposed Spanish marriage. | | | The other key question involved here is, of course, why publish the Folio under the name "Shakespeare," especially if the purpose--in part, at least--was to save the 18th Earl's life? |
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| | Chapter 13: The 2nd Cryptographic Shakespeare. |
| | It is, according to the critics, neither a comedy, a history nor a tragedy, although it is printed as the first of Shakespeare's comedies. | | | "The Tempest," as recorded in the First Folio, is the sole authority for the language and printing of that fanciful drama. | | | n the first chapter of this book I promised to show that the name of the real author of the First Folio of Shakespeare's Plays is concealed in the first spoken word. |
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http://home.att.net/~mleary/pennl13.htm
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| | "Publish We This Peace..." |
| | Indeed, it is the first book by anyone to begin the job of placing the curious semiotics of the folio in a proper comparative light. | | | The folio was patronized by de Vere's in-laws. | | | In 1988 Leah Marcus authored an astonishing expose of the folio. |
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| | Showcases - Landmarks in Printing :: Shakespeare's First Folio |
| | Published in 1623, this is the first collected edition of the plays of William Shakespeare, who died just seven years earlier. | | | His work was well enough respected by 1631 for him to be commissioned to produce the engravings for a second edition of Helkiah Crooke’s Mikrokosmographia, a folio-sized book on the human body, over 1,000 pages long. | | | Two of his fellow actors and closest friends, John Heminge and Henry Condell, undertook the work of editing the text and supervising the printing by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount. |
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| | Amazon.ca: The Life of Tymon of Athens: Applause First Folio Editions: Books |
| | The Folio is the source of all other editions. | | | If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. | | | If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1557834350
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| | For auction: 1st-edition Shakespeare work |
| | Peter Selley, Sotheby's English literature expert, said the notes in the margins of the folio -- "wit" and "love" among them -- indicate what parts of Shakespeare were valued over the years. | | | Considered by some "the most important book in English literature," this folio, offered by the Sotheby's auction house, retains its 17th century calf-skin binding and includes such famous Shakespeare tales as "Antony and Cleopatra," "Twelfth Night" and "The Taming of the Shrew." | | | This edition also has ink markings made by previous owners. |
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| | Preface to Shakespeare's First Folio |
| | The Droeshout engraving and Ben Jonson's poem "To the Reader." originally published opposite it, can be found on the page titled Shakespeare: The Man. | | | James Mabbe's To the memory of Master William Shakespeare, from the First Folio, 1623 | | | I have brought together here the opening pages from the First Folio of 1623 in html editions. |
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| | The Rebuses of the First Folio |
| | One is, of course that ridiculous engraving, another is that bladder of a bust. | | | Its our clue that MND should come first among the comedies. | | | It would give us the full range of British history the Author was interested in, as opposed to just English history. |
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| | OUP: The Shakespeare First Folio, by Anthony James West: |
| | Because Folios survive in such a wide variety of condition, the tests for defining what to count as a copy are described in Chapter 3, then demonstrated with three unnumbered, unrecognized copies at the Folger Shakespeare Library. | | | Volume I: History This tells part of the story of the 'greatest book' in the English language. | | | The number and distribution of known copies at the beginning and end of the twentieth century |
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| | Sotheby's London to Auction Shakespeare's First Folio: Theater News on TheaterMania.com |
| | The First Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays (1623), considered to be one of the most important books in English literature, will be auctioned as part of Sotheby's London sale of English History and Literature on Thursday, July 13. | | | The Folio will be on view as part of Sotheby's The Age of Shakespeare: English Books 1536-1640 exhibition, which is currently part of the New York Antiquarian Bookfair (which closes on April 23). | | | Published seven years after Shakespeare's death, the book contains a total of 36 plays, 18 of which had never previously been printed. |
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| | Peachum and the First Folio |
| | It is intriguing to observe that in The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Theophilus Cibber (1703-1758) significantly expanded on the first serious biographical account of the Stratford man that Nicholas Rowe attached to his critical edition of the Bard’s works in 1709. | | | Ritson also reveals that Oxford’s first wife (Ann Cecil) also wrote a few poems, a fact which he extracted from the last edition of Walpole’s work cited above. | | | Walpole’s selection and emphasis on Sackville was no doubt influenced by the fact that this Earl was famous as the co-author of the first English tragedy in blank verse, namely Gorboduc, written in 1561. |
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| | Current News about the Shakespeare Authorship Debate |
| | He argues that for Oxfordians it is impossible to view the First Folio as merely a literary project. | | | To demonstrate what Nelson considers to be the critical difference between bona fide documentary evidence versus what he considers to be the inferior, speculative evidence that Oxfordians rely on, he showed the title pages of several different Elizabethan play quartos with handwritten annotations by Sir George Buc, Master of the Revels in the early 1600s. | | | While the tactic of arguing the autobiographical nature of the works is a familiar one, Sobran's approach breathes new life into it. |
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| | Shakespeare Bibliography Part 1 |
| | Issued as a supplementary volume to Pope's first edition of works, 1723-25. | | | from Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio, 1632 in the Possession of J. Payne Collier. | | | the True Original Copies unto Which Is Added Seven Plays Never Before Printed in Folio: Pericles Prince of Tyre, The London Prodigal, The History of Thomas Lord Cromwell, Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham, The Puritan Widow, A Yorkshire Tragedy, The Tragedy of Locrine. |
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| | UNL Libraries University Archives and Special Collections Exhibits |
| | The Shakespeare First Folio is the premiere volume in the collection that also includes rare quartos printed in the 1600s and 1700s, books that were owned by distinguished individuals, engraved illustrations of scenes from the plays, and prompt books as far back as the 1770s for Shakespearian actors at Covent Garden and Drury Lane, London. | | | The First Folio includes thirty-six plays arranged by comedy, history, and tragedy. | | | The 1623 edition of Shakespeare& works is known as the “First Folio” because it was the first printing of all of his plays in one volume. |
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| | Today In Ashland, Oregon - Your FREE community calendar Portal - News |
| | The Third Folio was set from the Second and added seven more plays (only Pericles has gained general acceptance in the Shakespeare canon) and the Fourth Folio was a direct reprint of the Third. | | | Pericles, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Sir Thomas More and Edward III are not included in the First Folio. | | | Allen’s copy of the Folio were Allen Puleston, who married Mary Dryden, the great-niece of John Dryden, the poet. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books News Shakespeare first folio to go under hammer |
| | The folio, which retains its mid-17th century binding of plain brown calf skin and whose extensive markings and annotations provide an insight into its early readership, is due to go under the hammer at Sotheby's London sale room on July 13. | | | "Relatively complete copies of the Folio in contemporary or near contemporary bindings very rarely come to the market. | | | Photo: AP A first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays, described by auction house Sotheby's as "the most important book in English literature", is to go on sale this summer with an estimated price tag of £3.5m. |
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| | In the years 1623-25 there were but few matters of extreme literary interest for Ben Jonson to touch upon, and to these, it is suggested, his play refers; chief amongst them being William Shakespeare's immortal First Folio and Francis Bacon's great work, De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientarum, both published in 1623. | | | --which seems unmistakably intended as descriptive of the real Author of the great First Folio : | | | The "Broths and Salads" were evidently introduced to make fun of the passage in Cymbeline describing Imogen : |
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| | First Folio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The title page of the First Folio wih the famous engraved portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout | | | The First Folio is the name given to the first published collection of William Shakespeare's plays. | | | It is believed that around 1,000 copies of the first folio were printed. |
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| | The First Folio |
| | In the prefatory material to the First Folio was printed the Martin Droeshout engraving of Shakespeare, one of only two likenesses we have of the dramatist that can make claim to any sort of authenticity. | | | O, could he but have drawne his wit | | | The volume was probably inspired by the 1616 folio edition of Ben Jonson's Workes. |
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| | Folio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Book, referring to an unusually large and noteworthy book edition, such as the First Folio of William Shakespeare. | | | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. | | | Loosely, the page number marked on the page (which may be different from the page count). |
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| | William Shakespeare First Folio |
| | Dry'de is that veine, dry'd is the Thespian Spring, Turn'd all to teares, and Phoebus clouds his rayes : That corp's, that coffin now besticke those bayes, Which crown'd him Poet first, then Poets King. | | | The Workes of William Shakespeare, containing all his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies: Truely set forth, according to their first ORIGINALL | | | If Tragedies might any Prologue have, All those he made, would scarse make a one to this : Where Fame, now that he gone is to the grave (Deaths publique tyring-house) the Nuncius is, For though his line of life went soone about, The life yet of his lines shall never out. |
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| | Folio - XSL Formatting Objects Renderer |
| | The most famous folio is the First Folio of the works of William Shakespeare. | | | In printing, folio is the page number of a book. | | | It is also a sheet of paper folded once to make two leaves of a book, a volume having pages of the largest size, or a leaf of a manuscript or book numbered only on the front side. |
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| | shakespeare.ch - First Folio |
| | Mr William Shakespeare& Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies: A Facsimile of the First Folio, 1623 | | | The First Folio, published in 1623 by John Heminge and Henry Condell, was an attempt at a comprehensive collection of Shakespeare's plays. | | | Troilus and Cressida is one of the plays by Shakespeare that cannot be found in the table of content of the First Folio. |
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| | Folger Shakespeare Library |
| | Perhaps the most famous work in the Folger Shakespeare collection is the first collected edition of Shakespeare's works, printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. | | | He also acquired 58 copies of the Second Folio of 1632, 24 of the Third Folio of 1663-64, and 36 of the Fourth Folio of 1685. | | | Out of a world supply of 238 First Folios, Folger collected 79 copies, one of which is always on display in the Great Hall. |
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| | Highlights :: William Shakespeare's First Folio |
| | The First Folio is the collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, published seven years after his death by Isaac Iaggard and Edward Blount. | | | It was edited or overseen by his fellow actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell, and contains the texts of 36 plays, half of which had not previously been published. | | | The Folio was based on earlier sources (the Quartos) that show the plays as actually performed in the theatre. |
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| | Folio First - Information Aggregator |
| | Download Folio First and use the totally free Personal Edition as long as you want. | | | Performance enhancements make Folio First better than ever. | | | Folio First is now feature complete, download it now and try it out. |
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| | The First Folio of Shakespeare: Search-Form |
| | Title: The First Folio of 1623 does not include Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Two Noble Kinsmen nor will one find nondramatic works and commendatory verses. | | | Date: The date of the first folio printing is 1623. | | | Fortunately, no errors have been found in The First Folio of Shakespeare. |
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| | Gwynneth Bowen - Book Review: The Shakespeare First Folio |
| | Gwynneth Bowen - Book Review: The Shakespeare First Folio | | | This is necessarily something more than a study of the First Folio itself, for about half of the Folio texts were set up from corrected quartos—a fact which is vouched for by the numerous misprints which escaped detection and crept into the Folio from the Quartos. | | | Here, then, we have two of the sponsors of the First Folio acting together in 1619 to prevent the publication in Shakespeare's name of a collection of plays, two of which were not his at all, while the texts of most of the others were spurious. |
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| | First Folio School Shows |
| | Frolicking fairies, star-crossed lovers and bumbling mechanicals - bring the joy and laughter of one of Shakespeare's greatest comedies to your students! | | | The perfect way to introduce your students to the beauty of the Bard in a show teenagers still relate to 400 years after it was first performed. | | | All of the romance, excitement, and sorrow of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy in a single class period. |
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| | The First Web Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Works |
| | The First Web Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Works | | | shakespeare.com's First Web Folio edition is currently composed of all Shakespeare's plays—poems will join them eventually—and a search engine. | | | You can also scroll to the bottom of each page to machine translate a scene to one of the major European languages. |
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| | Re: Quarto 1 and First Folio |
| | There's a great web site on King Lear with a commentary that includes the differences between the Folio and the Quarto: | | | There are two major textual traditions for King Lear : the First Quarto (Q1) published in 1608, and the version of the play in the First Folio (F1), the first collected works of Shakespeare, published in 1623, seven years after his death. | | | I have followed the Folio edition for the most part, while indicating additional lines from the Quarto in brackets and lines not found in the Quarto in italics. |
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| | Richard III (1623 First Folio Edition) |
| | 1804: First, he commends him to your Noble selfe. | | | But he (poore man) by your first order dyed, | | | I do the wrong, and first begin to brawle. |
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