![]() ![]() Lines were repeated to take up leftover space at the end of a page or cut when the printers ran out of room. There is the Shakespearean version of a typo, where someone in the folio assembly line changed a reference to a “mobled” queen (meaning someone who is wrapped or hooded) to “inobled” queen (Hey, that’s not even a word!), and the phrase “enterprises of great pitch” came out as “enterprises of great pith” in this folio. The play is “Hamlet.” The line to look for is, “To be, or not to be.” The type is small and not made for eyes in ye older demographic, but the helpful guide on the case will point you to the correct portion of the page where Shakespeare’s most famous line awaits.īut there is more drama in these pages than Hamlet’s existential crisis, and that doesn’t even include the nice security guard’s firm reminder that you refrain from leaning on the case. Like all of the touring folios, this one is open to page 264 of the volume’s tragedies section. That is the big headline here.” My kingdom for a magnifying glass: Folio close-up “Eighteen of Shakespeare’s plays were not published in his lifetime, and without this folio, half of Shakespeare would not have survived. That’s the deal,” Old Globe artistic director Barry Edelstein said as he approached the First Folio case, which is dimly lit and climate- and humidity-controlled. The nearest non-touring First Folio volume is at the Huntington Library in San Marino, near Pasadena. When the First Folio of Shakespeare was published in 1623, the list of plays seeing the light of the reading lamp for the first time included such noteworthy titles as “Julius Caesar,” “The Taming of the Shrew,” and a little potboiler known as “Macbeth.” The Folger collection has 82 of the surviving 235 copies. ![]()
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