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This intriguing Second Folio is from the English college in Valladolid, Spain, and it bears the certificate of Guillermo Sánchez, a censor for the Holy Office, or Inquisition. Charged with the detection and punishment of heretics and those guilty of any offense against Catholic orthodoxy, the Holy Office also routinely expurgated books by ...
The Second Folio is a page-for-page reprint of the First Folio published in 1623. It was a joint printing enterprise undertaken by a consortium of five booksellers, each of whom owned the copyright to some number of Shakespeare’s plays. In measure of their degree of copyright ownership, each of the participating booksellers was apportioned a ...
29 de ago. de 2021 · Shakespeare’s Second Folio. One of the many surprises in the Cathedral Library is the number of play texts held there, and one of the most notable is a copy of the Second Folio (large-format) printed edition of Shakespeare’s plays. Our copy is not in perfect condition but it has been lovingly repaired, and the portrait of the author on the ...
10 de oct. de 2018 · The Second Folio includes the only undisputed likeness of William Shakespeare: an iconic portrait by printmaker Martin Droeshout. Printed by Thomas Cotes, for Robert Allot, London, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, 1632, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Masterson Book Collection, Rienzi. William Shakespeare’s Second Folio is on the shelves of the Library in Rienzi ...
Hace 3 días · A second Folio was issued in 1632, containing ‘An Epitaph on…Shakespeare’ by Milton, which was his first published poem; a third Folio was issued in 1663, whose second impression of 1664 contained Pericles and six apocryphal plays; the fourth and last Folio was published in 1685.
We carry a rare Second Shakespeare Folio, also known as Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Besides being extremely excited about having this unique book and piece of history, we wanted to share exactly what the Second Folio is and why it is so important.. The Second Shakespeare Folio is essentially the second edition of the First Folio, published nine years after ...
Time's Pencil offers a history of how Shakespeare's works changed in content and use after the publication of his First Folio in 1623. Visitors can look at primary sources from the 16th through 21st centuries to learn about how historical and literary changes led to waves of rewriting of Shakespearean texts and produced radically different assessments and uses of Shakespeare over the centuries.
