The public exhibition of First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library will be on display Aug. 9-31 at the CU Art Museum. All the World’s a Page: ...

Even if you’ve never read or seen one of his plays, everyone knows William Shakespeare. At the very least you know the story of Romeo & Juliet. And the reason we are all familiar with Shakespeare is ...

A rare copy of William Shakespeare’s first folio has sold for $2.4m (£2m). Printed in 1623, the book titled Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, compiles 36 of the bard’s plays.

This copy of the First Folio is one of fewer than 20 in private hands. Sotheby’s Seven years after William Shakespeare’s death in 1616, two of the playwright’s friends gathered, edited and printed 36 ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. UBC acquired the First Folio, formerly owned by ...

It’s hard to imagine a writer who has had as enduring an impact on the English language as William Shakespeare. Phrases like “neither rhyme nor reason,” “too much of a good thing” or “it’s Greek to me ...

The First Folio has been called “the book that gave us Shakespeare.” If that sounds a little dramatic — well, it’s also essentially true, said Sam Lemley. Lemley is the curator of special collections ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - In his lifetime, William Shakespeare was an artist of the people. His works were popular successes for the masses performed in London and Stratford, not the elite stuff of the upper ...

Kansas City, Mo., and Conway, Ark., have reason to celebrate. Because the two cities will host original copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio, published in 1623 and considered one of the most ...

A folio is a large book in which printed sheets are folded in half only once, creating two double-sided leaves, or four pages. Folios were more expensive and far more prestigious than quartos. Seven ...