What can we learn from Shakespeare’s First Folio?
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2016 · Education
Emma Smith is interested in what happened to the First Folio over the almost 400 years since it was printed in 1623. We can see - from pet paw marks, wineglass rings and doodles - that these books were pored over by actors learning their lines, studied by scholars on booksellers’ shelves, while also being household objects. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/shakespeares-first-folio-9780198754367 Filming of Wadham's First Folio by kind permission of the Warden and Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford Emma Smith has been a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, and Lecturer in the Faculty of English since 1997. Before that she was at Somerville and All Souls, Oxford and at New Hall (now Murray Edwards), Cambridge. She has published and lectured widely on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and on the reception of Shakespeare. © Oxford University Press
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