Reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a Over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered The Folio is the source of all other editions. New visual clues allow readers to explore where modern texts haveĪltered the original First Folio line structure (in some plays involving.More swiftly and efficiently than comparable attempts in modern New easy coding system guides readers directly to single topics far.Opposite each page of text is a blank page for reader notes and comments.Glosses highlight scholarship of the last four centuries.Footnotes discuss many of the Quarto and modern text variations.Comprehensive introduction for each of the plays.Ample exercises for practice and inspiration.Faithful reproduction of the text as presented in the First Folio ofġ623, in clear and legible modern type, with original compositors.Special emphasis on issues relevant to each particular play: The Applause First Folio Editions compare the differences between theįirst printings and the best modern texts of Shakespeare’s works, with The reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition of The Tragedie of Julius Caesar that likewise returns UBC’s acquisition of a First Folio ensures public access to one of the world’s most precious cultural treasures.įor All Time will be accompanied by an audio mobile guide featuring the voice of Christopher Gaze, Founding Artistic Director of Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, along with a glimpse of UBC’s augmented and virtual reality projects that will come to life this year and in 2023.HARD TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited number of copies are still Of the estimated 235 copies that remain worldwide, there is only one other copy in Canada. The First Folio thus not only gave us their first appearance in print but was also the means by which they were preserved and passed on to future generations.Ĭultural properties of the First Folio’s magnitude and capacity to engage the public’s imagination are not evenly distributed around the world. Eighteen plays-including The Tempest, Macbeth, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale and Julius Caesar-remained unpublished in any form. When Shakespeare died in 1616, only about half of his works had appeared in print. It is the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays and the foundation of his enduring legacy and reputation. The First Folio, as it is also recognized, includes thirty-six of Shakespeare’s thirty-eight known plays, edited by his close friends, fellow writers and actors. In partnership with the Vancouver Art Gallery, this tangible piece of cultural heritage will be exhibited to the public along with three subsequent seventeenth-century Folio editions of Shakespeare’s plays, marking the first time all four Folios have been displayed in Vancouver. For All Time: The Shakespeare FIRST FOLIO celebrates the University of British Columbia Library’s recent acquisition of a first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies-an extremely rare book published in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death, and credited with preserving almost half of his plays.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |