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The First Folio, 1623
Teaching with Shakespeare’s • Posthumously printed (Shakespeare dies 1616) First Folio (1623) • Prepared by fellow King’s Harris Manchester, Oxford Men actors John Heminge 9 November 2013 and Henry Condell Emma Smith, Her ord College emma.smith@her ord.ox.ac.uk • Does not include poems or sonnets, or Pericles or Two firs olio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Noble Kinsmen users.ox.ac.uk/~ejsmith
Online Folios NO MANUSCRIPTS
• Bodleian Library
Handwri ng thought to be Shakespeare's, in a manuscript play The Book of Sir Thomas Moore, Bri sh Library, Harley MS. 7368, f.9. h p:// firs olio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Also, see facsimiles at the Folger (folger.edu), and via Internet Shakespeare (h p://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/). Sarah Werner’s blogpost consumer tests online folios: h p:// colla on.folger.edu/2013/04/first-folios-online/
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Print before the Folio Quarto publica ons
• 19 Shakespeare plays in print from 1594-1622 • Narra ve poem Venus and Adonis Shakespeare’s most popular book • Most reprinted plays in this period are histories: Henry IV Part 1 and Richard III (each in 6 edi ons)
FOLIO (F) Further sources on quarto texts
• Large, imposing, collected edition, • Shakespeare Quartos 45x32cm Archive • (Shakespeare folio cost about £1
QUARTOS (Q) in 1623; Oriel sold theirs in 2003 for £3.5 million) Facsimiles of quartos (great • Cheap, single-play • Prestigious, library-type book = for tlepages, comparisons books (6d), measuring coffee table book etc) about 22x16cm Searchable transcrip ons
• Disposable, low status Online tutorials and = comics, paperbacks contextual informa on
h p://www.quartos.org
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Folio-only plays (in Folio order) • 36 plays (Troilus and Cressida included, but • The Tempest • King John not listed) • The Two Gentlemen of • Henry VI Part 1 • Does not include Verona • Henry VIII Pericles or Two Noble • Measure for Measure • Coriolanus Kinsmen • The Comedy of Errors • Timon of Athens • Divided by genre (not, • As You Like It • Julius Caesar for instance, by • The Taming of the Shrew • Macbeth chronology: compare • All’s Well that Ends Well modern collected • Antony and Cleopatra • edi ons) Twel h Night • Cymbeline • The Winter’s Tale
Plays where Folio/Quarto variants are Folio texts 1: surprises par cularly interes ng: • Hamlet (radical • Othello (some F-only differences between Q1: passages, as at Roderigo’s 1603; Q2: 1604 and F – speech in 1.1, are more have a look at ‘to be or racially derogatory) not to be’ as an example) • Henry V (no choruses or Prologue in Q) But all plays exis ng in two texts have some differences, especially around stage direc ons
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Folio texts 2: Stage direc ons Folio texts 3: King Lear
Folio texts 4: persons Folio 5: speech prefixes
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