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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Exhibition: Fame, Fortune, and Theft: The Shakespeare First Folio

Exhibition: Fame, Fortune, and Theft: The Shakespeare First FolioFrom the 1620s through the twenty-first century, the Shakespeare First Folio influenced the industries of conservation, editing, and book-collecting, eventually becoming a cause for idolatry in itself. This exhibition explores the complex history of the First Folio, from its humble beginnings in the seventeenth century to stories of theft and recovery of an idolized book, recounting how it came to mean so much across cultures and continents - Folger Shakespeare Library until September 3, 2011

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