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400 Years of Shakespeare's First Folio, with Emma Smith
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400 Years of Shakespeare's First Folio, with Emma Smith

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Emma Smith of Oxford University tells us what the First Folio has been up to since it was published 400 years ago.

Publishing Shakespeare's First Folio, with Chris Laoutaris
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Publishing Shakespeare's First Folio, with Chris Laoutaris

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We talk with Chris Laoutaris about his new book, an in-depth look at the First Folio, its creation, and its legacy.

How Shakespeare's First Folio Became a Star
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How Shakespeare's First Folio Became a Star

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 56  Today, the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s works, printed in 1623, can sell for millions of dollars. But the First Folio wasn’t always valued so highly. In this podcast episode, two experts in the First Folio…

Creating Shakespeare's First Folio
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Creating Shakespeare's First Folio

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 47 We likely wouldn’t have half of Shakespeare’s plays without the First Folio of 1623. Imagine a world without Macbeth, Twelfth Night, or Julius Caesar. Our guest on this episode of Shakespeare Unlimited is Emma Smith, a…

Inside the Folger Conservation Lab
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Inside the Folger Conservation Lab

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 44 The Folger is the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, and the crown jewels of that collection are the 82 First Folios. To celebrate 400 years of Shakespeare, eighteen of these rare books are traveling the country throughout…

Andrea Mays on The Millionaire and the Bard
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Andrea Mays on The Millionaire and the Bard

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 36 Henry Clay Folger paid a world record price for a book—not once, but twice—as he became the world’s leading collector of Shakespeare First Folios. The Folger Shakespeare Library celebrated its 90th birthday this past April. Did…

Editing Shakespeare
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Editing Shakespeare

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 31 Just what exactly does it mean to edit the works of Shakespeare, particularly since we have no surviving manuscript copies? Why is it that new editions of the plays continue to be published? In this episode…

A New First Folio Discovery
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A New First Folio Discovery

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 17 In the fall of 2014, the world learned of a remarkable discovery: An old book in a French library, acquired in the 1790s, was identified as an unknown copy of the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare—the…