This helped correct the spread of “bad quartos”-pirated versions of the work reconstructed from memory. Had the First Folio not been published several of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, including Macbeth, Julius Caesar, The Tempest and As You Like It may never have survived, according to the Folger.įollowing the Bard’s death in August 1616, friends of the playwright, including John Heminge and Henry Condell, compiled and edited Shakespeare’s manuscripts and working drafts, as well as earlier printed editions of some of the scripts to produce an authoritative version of each play. is an “extraordinary book.” The Folger, which owns 82 copies, is a center for study of the rare volumes. Published in 1623, the First Folio, according to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. the new purchase is only Canada’s second, the statement says. Only 235 copies of the First Folio are in extant with most held in the U.S. The UBC Library purchased the volume, formerly owned by a private collector in the U.S., through Christie’s in New York. “The First Folio is a cornerstone of English literature and with this donation, we are able to bring this cultural treasure into public ownership,” says Katherine Kalsbeek, head of rare books and special collections at UBC Library, in a statement. Known as the First Folio, the book will be on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) through March 20, reports Bridgette Watson for CBC News.
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These notes draw on the long tradition of Shakespearean scholarship and include full reference to surviving Quarto texts."-BOOK JACKET.A rare first edition of William Shakespeare's Comedies Histories and Tragedies, a volume containing 36 of Shakespeare’s 38 known plays is now in the collections of the University of British Columbia (UBC) Library. So, whenever the Folio presents a problem, the reader can refer to this parallel text for a solution, either in the text itself or in the set of notes at the end of the book. All the First Folio's idiosyncrasies of layout and spelling, even its obvious errors, have been scrupulously left intact, but the text suddenly becomes as easily legible as the script of any modern play." "As an additional aid to understanding, readers will find, printed opposite each page of the Folio, the very same passage in a modern edition. The Shakespeare Folios on the other hand offer easy access directly to the First Folio by presenting the text in modern type but otherwise unchanged. But the Folio's antiquated typography and cramped layout make it remote and inaccessible to modern eyes.
It is more often than not the closest we can now get to what Shakespeare actually wrote.
"The First Folio of 1623 is the definitive edition of Shakespeare's plays. Julius Caesar 1/E (Harcourt) | Books | Western Campus
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