![]() ![]() And these in turn bear evidence of the full catastrophe of our human compulsions, triumphs, and bereavements: courtship, marriage, war, childbirth, aspiration, friendship, and death, all in dialogue with reading and the life of the book. Cano and Mark Hutchings on Shakespeares First Folio and the Valladol. The Story of the First Folio The First Folio contains thirty-six of Shakespeare’s plays, printing eighteen of them for the first time. The fall 2020 special issue, Women at UVA: What Took So Long, won best Design Full Issue in the magazine industrys Folio: Eddie & Ozzie Awards. In her research, Kristine is interested broadly both in time in early modernity. Among these titles are many of the famous and most produced plays ever to spring from the Bard’s mind and pen, including Macbeth, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and so many more. In these books, we find that readers left behind many traces of themselves and their interactions: inscriptions, notes, lists, poems, anecdotes, letters, flowers, locks of hair, drawings, and photographs. Anunciacin Carrera de la Red holds a PhD in English Studies from UVA, Spain. Her reviews of Shakespeare adaptations in Amsterdam are available here and here. The First Folio, published in 1623, includes 36 Shakespeare plays, 18 of which had never been printed before. This exhibition offers highlights from that search. Over the past two years, here at the University of Virginia, the Book Traces team has examined over 100,000 books from Alderman and other libraries on Grounds, looking for evidence of use by their original owners. The book contains a near-complete collection of the bards plays. 6:30 p.m., at the Ruth Caplin Theater, Andrew Wadeformer Head of Voice at the Royal Shakespeare Companywill lecture and take questions. Four hundred years after it was first printed, Shakespeares First Folio is up for sale for 7.5 million. The Second Folio was published 9 years later in 1632. ![]() The Library also holds the three later editions published in the 1600s. Read the article “ Bidding ‘Fare Thee Well’ to Shakespeare’s First Folio at UVA” ( UVA Today, ).How did readers annotate, mark, and customize their books in an age when the book was king? And what are we to make of those unique volumes now? The Book Traces project is an attempt to answer those questions by looking at individual copies of 19th and early 20th-century books on the shelves of libraries. A UVA Today article, Nine Things to Do With Shakespeare’s First Folio, Coming to UVA in October, gives a schedule of events surrounding the First Folio’s arrival: Monday, October 3, 5:00 p.m. The Library’s copy of the First Folio is the only known copy held in Australia. To celebrate 400 years since the publication of Shakepeare’s First Folio, the display at Stonyhurst will explore the history and stories of approximately 40 objects from its Museum and Archives, each of which have unique links to Shakespeare’s plays that feature within the First Folio. The 400-year-old text presented the Bard’s plays as serious literature, muddling the boundaries between. The main gallery will reopen on Monday, October 31, and the Library exhibition will remain up through December 29, 2016. These stories have their meeting point in one specific object: the valuable book known as Shakespeare’s First Folio, published 400 years ago in 1623. Without the First Folio, Half of Shakespeare’s Plays Would Have Been Lost to History. A complete and original copy of Shakespeares very first printed collection of plays set a record Wednesday when it was auctioned off at just under 10 million. ![]() The Main Gallery will be closed from Thursday, October 27–Saturday, October 29 while the current exhibition “ Shakespeare by the Book: Four Centuries of Printing, Editing, and Publishing” is reinstalled. Interim senior director of the Harrison-Small Research Center Carla Lee says that, since the First Folio arrived on October 1st, more than 1,800 people have come to see the book that preserved 18 plays for which there is no earlier source. The First Folio-the first collection of Shakespeare’s plays to appear in print-has left the main exhibition gallery of the Harrison/Small Special Collections building today, and is now traveling to its next venue, one of the four priceless volumes the Folger Shakespeare Library has touring the United States to mark the 400th year since Shakespeare’s death in 1616.Īccording to UVA Today‘s article “Bidding ‘Fare Thee Well’ to Shakespeare’s First Folio at UVA” the public’s response to the tour has been very positive. ![]()
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