{"id":714,"date":"2015-04-28T12:31:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/?p=714"},"modified":"2015-04-28T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:31:10","slug":"first-folio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/first-folio\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare at Notre Dame to host First Folio in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The title page of Shakespeare’s First Folio published in 1623 and coming to Notre Dame in January 2016.<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the world\u2019s rarest and most treasured books, the First Folio<\/a> is the first collected edition of Shakespeare\u2019s plays. It will be displayed in the Hesburgh Libraries <\/a>at Notre Dame January 4 through January 29 during a nationwide traveling exhibition entitled \u201cFirst Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare,\u201d sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library<\/a> in partnership with the Cincinnati Museum Center<\/a> and the American Library Association<\/a> and hosted by Shakespeare at Notre Dame<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The exhibition, announced by the Folger Shakespeare Library<\/a> on Thursday (April 23), Shakespeare\u2019s 451st<\/sup> birthday, is one of numerous events planned worldwide for 2016, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are honored to partner with the Hesburgh Library\u2019s Rare Books Collection<\/a> and the Folger Shakespeare Library in serving as the sole Indiana venue for the First Folio exhibition,\u201d said Scott Jackson, executive director of Shakespeare at Notre Dame. \u201cOur mission is to directly engage our audiences with the works of Shakespeare both on the page and on the stage. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to host the First Folio in a venue as iconic as Notre Dame\u2019s Hesburgh Library will provide the wider Michiana community with an entirely new way to experience one of the world\u2019s greatest dramatists.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it was published in 1623, the First Folio could be purchased for 20 shillings, roughly $200 today. Since then it has become one of the most valuable printed books in the world; a First Folio sold for $6.2 million in 2001 at Christie\u2019s and another one for $5.2 million in 2006 in London.<\/p>\n

\"ToBe_FirstFolio_small\"<\/a>In the Notre Dame exhibition of the First Folio, the book\u2019s pages will be opened to the most familiar of all Shakespearean lines; \u201cTo be or not to be\u201d from Hamlet\u2019s soliloquy. The exhibition will include digital and interactive features on Shakespeare\u2019s life, times and work, and several public events presented by Shakespeare at Notre Dame<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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