Shakespeare's friendly rival Ben Jonson had previously published his own writings, poems included, in a folio. The 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare, however, is the earliest folio consisting only of an ...

The book had been owned by a private US college since the 1960s A copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio has been sold for a record $9.98m (£7.6m) at auction in New York. The 1623 book ...

In 1623, seven years after William Shakespeare's death, a compilation of 36 of his plays were published together in one volume. No more than 750 copies of this 'First Folio' were printed and today ...

But today he’s remembered for being one of the earliest known owners of the first published collection of Shakespeare’s dramas. In fact, he bought not one but two copies of these First Folios ...

known to modern readers as William Shakespeare’s First Folio, owned by the Brandeis University Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections. Originally 750 First Folios were printed, ...

Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. A Sotheby's employee handles a copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio, the most important book in ... [+] English Literature. The book is estimated ...

the First Folio, in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death. Half of the plays would have been lost if the First Folio ...

In 1623, Shakespeare’s plays were published together for the first time as a printed collection, known as the First Folio. To mark 400 years since the occasion, the Folio Society has published his ...

“Some of that is timing.” The newly unveiled facility now boasts room to display the library's collection of 82 copies of Shakespeare's First Folio — a collection of his works — to the publi ...

There is no doubt he was popular with Shakespeare. The First Folio, published after the playwright's death, was dedicated to him. And there is evidence this was reciprocated. Dr Siobhan Keenan ...

Andrea Mays, the author of The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio, has devoted countless hours to researching in the Folger. A protégé of ...