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Shakespeare's Original First Folio Sells For Almost $10 Million

Texas Public Radio
The playwright's first printed collection of plays, published in 1623, sold at a Christie's auction in New York on Wednesday for $9.98...
49 months ago

Wedding: how did Shakespeare become a London playwright?

OUPblog
In this OUPblog post, Lena Cowen Orlin, author of the "detailed and dazzling" 'The Private Life of William Shakespeare' asks: just when was...
28 months ago

The Great White Bard and Shakespeare Without a Life review

History Today
Two significant new publications push the parameters of how we engage with the most revered writer in the English language.
17 months ago

Birth: when was Shakespeare’s birthday?

OUPblog
Shakespeare made his first entrance into history on 26 April 1564, the day he was christened in the parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon.
28 months ago

Brush Up Your... Marlowe?

Columbia University
When James Shapiro '77CC began plotting out Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?, a friend unnerved him by asking, “What difference does it make?
66 months ago

Shakespeare First Folio to be auctioned for first time in 20 years

Financial Times
One of the most important books in literary history brings together 36 of the playwright's dramas.
58 months ago

How one actor forever changed the way we see Shakespeare

British Council Global
Professor Richard Schoch explains how David Garrick, an 18th-century actor-manager and playwright, formed the popular attitudes towards Shakespeare that remain...
103 months ago

How I reunited the most important documents in English theatre history for the first time in 200 years

The Conversation
Most of what we know about the beginnings of English professional theatre as a financial enterprise and artistic endeavour comes from...
26 months ago

Auction record for Shakespeare’s ‘First Folio’ as book dealer bids $8.4m at Christie’s

Antiques Trade Gazette
An 'original and complete' copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio of plays set an auction record at Christie's latest 'Exceptional' sale in New York.
49 months ago

Shakespeare: The Question of Authorship (Published 2010)

The New York Times
Who wrote “Hamlet,” “Othello” and “The Tempest”? Why does it matter? Books by James Shapiro and others address these questions.
175 months ago