Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

ISBN-13: 9780198819998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 400 str.

Emma Smith

Opis

Just a few hundred copies of the 1623 edition of Shakespeare's collected plays exist, making it one of the most sought-after publications in history. Emma Smith explores the First Folio's post-publication life, the stories of individual copies, and the way readers, forgers, collectors, actors, scholars, and booksellers have interacted with them.

Recenzje

A fascinating and provocative book. Daniel Swift, Spectator

O autorze

Emma Smith teaches at Hertford College, Oxford, and has published and lectured widely on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and on the reception of Shakespeare.