{"id":59315,"date":"2016-04-10T18:01:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=59315"},"modified":"2016-04-21T16:40:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T05:40:35","slug":"shakespeare-folio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2016\/04\/10\/shakespeare-folio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bard is Back: New Shakespearean First Folio discovered in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Emma Smith, professor of Shakespeare studies at Oxford University was contacted about a possible unrecorded copy of William Shakespeare\u2019s First Folio being discovered in a country house in Scotland, BBC News<\/a> reports that her response was blunt: \u201cLike hell they have.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

So what is the First Folio and why all the fuss? <\/span><\/p>\n

In 1623, a few years after Shakespeare\u2019s death, 36 of his plays were compiled into a collection known as the First Folio, of which there are only 234 documented copies in the world still in existence. Plays like Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, As You Like It, <\/em>and Macbeth<\/em> are all included in the Folio; it\u2019s the first time that these works were published.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The three-volume First Folio discovered at Mount Stuart House, Scotland<\/p><\/div>\n

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Coming across new Folios is so rare, hence Smith\u2019s above response. Upon viewing the three-volume collection for herself at the library at Mount Stuart, a manor on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, Smith found they were genuine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mount Stuart House<\/p><\/div>\n

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They\u2019ve been in the mansion\u2019s library since 1896 and according to Smith, this copy previously belonged to Isaac Reed, an influential London editor from the18th-Century who acquired it in 1786.<\/p>\n

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Mount Stuart House: Library<\/p><\/div>\n

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The last time a First Folio was discovered was in 2014 in a Jesuit college in Saint-Omer in Northern France.<\/p>\n

In 1623 the first Folio sold for approximately 1 British Pound (the equivalent of today\u2019s100 British Pounds). In 1807, another copy sold for 38 British Pounds. In 2003 a copy owned by Oxford University sold for 3.5 million British Pounds.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Emma Smith, professor of Shakespeare studies at Oxford University was contacted about a possible unrecorded copy of William Shakespeare\u2019s First Folio being discovered in a country house in Scotland, BBC News reports that her response was blunt: \u201cLike hell they have.\u201d So what is the First Folio and why all the fuss? In 1623, a few years after Shakespeare\u2019s death, 36 of his plays were compiled into a collection known as the First Folio, of which there are only 234 documented copies in the world still in existence. Plays like Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, As You Like It, and Macbeth are all included in the Folio; it\u2019s the first time that these works were published.   Coming across new Folios is so rare, hence Smith\u2019s above response. Upon viewing the three-volume collection for herself at the library at Mount Stuart, a manor on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, Smith found they were genuine.\u00a0   They\u2019ve been in the mansion\u2019s library since 1896 and according to Smith, this copy previously belonged to Isaac Reed, an influential London editor from the18th-Century who acquired it in 1786.   The last time a First Folio was discovered was in 2014…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":59318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[118,40,73],"tags":[6729,4798,6561],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SocialMediaImage-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59315"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59361,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59315\/revisions\/59361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}