Shakespeare's First Folio to visit UD from Aug. 30-Sept. 25, 2016

9:51 a.m., April 24, 2015--Shakespeare’s First Folio will be on display at the University Museums of the University of Delaware from Aug. 30 through Sept. 25, 2016. 

 The University was selected as a host site for the First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare national tour, which marks the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. 

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The First Folio is the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays and was published in 1623 by a London syndicate headed by Edward Blount and Isaac Jaggard, whose father William Jaggard printed it at his London printing shop.

Among the 18 plays first published in the First Folio are All’s Well That Ends Well, Anthony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Winter’s Tale.

About the tour

The First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare national traveling exhibition of one of the world’s most treasured books represents a partnership between the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, D.C., the Cincinnati Museum Center and the American Library Association. 

The Folger Shakespeare Library holds 82 copies of the First Folio, by far the largest collection in the world and more than a third of the 223 extant copies. It is believe that 750 copies were originally printed.

First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor, and by the generous support of Google.org and Vinton and Sigrid Cerf.