The First Folio has been called “the book that gave us Shakespeare.” If that sounds a little dramatic — well, it’s also essentially true, said Sam Lemley. Lemley is the curator of special collections ...

The image of the playwright on the title page is also just one of two portraits with "any claim to authenticity," according to the British Library. University of British Columbia A rare first edition ...

Heminges and Condell, actor colleagues of Shakespeare, took it upon themselves (with assistance, financial and otherwise, we are told, from bookseller Edward Blount) to collect, transcribe and print ...

Four hundred years ago, in 1623, a book of Shakespeare’s plays was published. This wasn’t just any book: It marked the first time all of Shakespeare’s works were published together — no mean feat back ...

LONDON — Six highly rare first edition collections of William Shakespeare’s plays will go on show in London next week in what auction house Christie’s says will be the largest display of the works in ...

This copy of the First Folio is one of fewer than 20 in private hands. Sotheby’s Seven years after William Shakespeare’s death in 1616, two of the playwright’s friends gathered, edited and printed 36 ...

The people at the State Library Archives and Museum were stunned to hear, in February 2015, that they were chosen as Alaska’s location to host Shakespeare First Folio. As part of the celebration on ...

William Shakespeare’s friends and close collaborators succeeded at publishing his works in a huge book — the First Folio — 400 years ago, . The Bard had been dead for nearly a decade, and without the ...

A nearly 400-year-old collection of William Shakespeare’s plays sold just under $2.5 million at Sotheby’s auction in New York City on Thursday. The folio is one of 18 remaining copies left held by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. William Shakespeare’s influence over the world remains unwavering more than four centuries after the renowned dramatist began his ...

William Shakespeare’s influence over the world remains unwavering more than four centuries after the renowned dramatist began his career. To mark the continued resonance of the famed playwright’s ...