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The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio - 9781851244423
Un libro in lingua di Emma Smith edito da Bodleian Library, 2016
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Shakespeare is synonymous with English literature. Well-loved the world over, his work endures for its ability to speak powerfully to the follies and foibles of human nature. We endlessly debate not only the finer points of each of his plays and sonnets but also the identity of the Bard himself. Yet no fanfare surrounded the initial publication of Shakespeare’sFirst Folio—no queue of eager readers, no launch to the top of the best seller list. It wasn’t until four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death that the book would be the subject of a national book tour.
The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio offers the first comprehensive biography of the earliest collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays. In November 1623, the book arrived in the bookshop of the London publisher Edward Blount at the Black Bear. Long in the making, Master William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies—as theFirst Folio was then known—appeared seven years after Shakespeare’s death. Nearly one thousand pages in length, the collection comprised thirty-six plays, half of which had never been previously published. Emma Smith tells the story of theFirst Folio’s origins, locating it within the social and political context of Jacobean London and bringing in the latest scholarship on the seventeenth-century book trade.
Extensively illustrated, The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio is a landmark addition to the copious literature on Shakespeare. It will shed much-needed light on the birth of theFirst Folio—of which fewer than 250 copies remain—and the birth of Shakespeare’s towering reputation.
The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio offers the first comprehensive biography of the earliest collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays. In November 1623, the book arrived in the bookshop of the London publisher Edward Blount at the Black Bear. Long in the making, Master William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies—as theFirst Folio was then known—appeared seven years after Shakespeare’s death. Nearly one thousand pages in length, the collection comprised thirty-six plays, half of which had never been previously published. Emma Smith tells the story of theFirst Folio’s origins, locating it within the social and political context of Jacobean London and bringing in the latest scholarship on the seventeenth-century book trade.
Extensively illustrated, The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio is a landmark addition to the copious literature on Shakespeare. It will shed much-needed light on the birth of theFirst Folio—of which fewer than 250 copies remain—and the birth of Shakespeare’s towering reputation.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Emma Smith
- Editore: Bodleian Library
- Collana: Bodleian Library (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 15 Marzo '16
- Genere: Lingua Inglese
- Pagine: 180
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 0
- ISBN-10: 1851244425
- EAN-13: 9781851244423