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After the show, one of the actors, Dorothy Tutin, approached the pope clutching a rare copy of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, the earliest collection of the Bard’s plays ever published.
After more than 25 years in residence at the historic Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook, First Folio Theatre will sunset when its current show, “And Neither Have I Wings to Fly,” closes on ...
Four hundred years after it was first printed, Shakespeare's First Folio is up for sale for $7.5 million. The book contains a near-complete collection of the bard's plays. Four hundred years ago ...
There’s this effort to treat the First Folio as the best possible text. And in a way, that has continued to bolster the First Folio’s reputation. Half of the Shakespeare First Folio comprised 18 plays ...
Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, which saved 18 plays from being lost. Tracing the First Folio’s story, the film also spotlights how New York City’s Public ...
Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, now known as the First Folio, was published in 1623, seven years after his death. Its more expensive 900-page format implied that these ...
In 1998 in Durham, England, a First Folio vanishes without a trace. A series of experts weigh in on how the folio vanished, and recount the story of how it was found. In 1998, on an ordinary ...
William Shakespeare would have smiled at this 400th anniversary of his First Folio. He always revelled in the dramatic present. No fewer than three of his plays begin with “Now”. Imminence is ...
The focus is on the four March sisters in Heather Chrisler’s innovative adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, “Little Women.” To keep that focus, there are only four actors in ...
This year, 2023, thus marks the 400th anniversary of the First Folio, the nickname for that memorial collection of 36 plays. Roughly half of them, including “Macbeth,” “Antony and Cleopatra ...
The First Folio, the landmark collection of Shakespeare's plays, just turned 400. How much do you know about it? Four hundred years ago, a book appeared. “Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies ...
It’s a rare opportunity to get a glimpse of William Shakespeare’s First Folio — the first collection of his works, published posthumously in 1623. According to the British Museum ...