Beautifully written and utterly compelling, this book comprises all the drama, intrigue and surprises of a Shakespeare play. manages to be edifying and entertaining in equal measure’ 'Meticulously researched and compellingly conveyed. And he considers how Shakespeare himself, before his death, may have influenced the ways in which his own public identity would come to be enshrined in the First Folio, shaping the transmission of his legacy to future generations and determining how the world would remember him ‘not of an age, but for all time’. Shakespeare scholar Dr Chris Laoutaris uncovers the friendships, bonds, social ties and professional networks that facilitated the production of Shakespeare ’ s book, as well as the personal challenges, tragedies and dangers that threatened its completion. A rare early volume of Shakespeares plays is to go on show at the University of Glasgow. Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio charts, for the first time, the manufacture of the First Folio against a turbulent backdrop of seismic political events and international tensions that intersected with the lives of its creators. The rare book is one of only 50 that remain in the UK. It is difficult to imagine a world without The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale and Macbeth, but these are just some of the plays that were only preserved thanks to the astounding labour of love that went into creating the first collection. The year 2023 marks the 400th anniversary of Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, known today simply as the First Folio. It's a book for our times, enduringly fascinating and appealing to both enthusiasts and the general reader. ‘This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet compulsively readable. We will be making improvements to our fulfilment systems on Sunday 23rd. The discovery comes just in time for celebrations planned to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death, which came on April 23, 1616.‘A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeares First Folio - August 2016. She described her initially incredulous attitude towards the authenticity of the book, but said "when I went up to investigate, I could tell from the story of the book's origins, the watermarks and the idiosyncrasies of the text that it was genuine. Smith said the three volumes were worth between 2 and 2.5 million pounds ($2.8-3.5 million). shows us is a time when people just really used this book, they enjoyed it, they scribbled on it, they spilt their wine on it, their pet cats jumped on it." in a glass case, and one of the things that this copy. "This is something that you could take to the fireside and enjoy," Smith told the BBC. The 300-year-old Gothic revival house is the ancestral home of the Stuarts of Bute, who first occupied the land some 900 years ago Image: Reuters/R. Apart from the Bible, this volume is now considered the most influential book ever. Instead, the Bute copy has been split into three, separated by categories of history, tragedy, and comedy. The First Folio was published in 1623, 8 years after Shakespeares death. What is unique about this particular iteration, according to Oxford Professor Emma Smith, is that the First Folio has usually only been seen as one large volume. The director of the Mount Stuart House Trust, Adam Ellis-Jones, described the revelation as "genuinely astonishing." "In terms of literary discoveries, they do not come much bigger than a new First Folio, and we are really excited that this has happened on Bute," said Alice Martin, head of collections at the house. The Shakespeare first folio : the history of the book by West, Anthony James. The find makes a total of 234 known copies of the First Folio in the world, with nearly all the others are held by libraries and available only to academics. The tome was uncovered at Mount Stuart, a large manor house on the Isle of Bute off the western coast of Scotland. It is not only in essence a "first edition," of the Bard's work but also the only reliable source for twenty of his most famous pieces, such as Macbeth and Julius Caesar. A First Folio is a scarce collection of 36 of William Shakespeare's plays published in 1623. A rare First Folio has been discovered in Scotland, the University of Oxford announced on Thursday.
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