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 ...

William Shakespeare’s comedies, histories & tragedies: published according to the true originall copies, known to modern readers as William Shakespeare’s First Folio, owned by the Brandeis University ...

Simon Russell Beale performs ‘To be or not to be’ from Hamlet, in a version culled from different editions of the play.

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 ...

This digitized version of the First Folio is part of Brandeis' large collection of rare Shakespeare texts, which also includes a second and a fourth folio. Civil War Letters of Wellesley College and ...

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

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 ...

When Michael Dobson wrote about the printing of Shakespeare’s First Folio for the London Review of Books, he described it as a ‘series of headaches’. When we tried to replicate those 17th-century ...