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On this day, December 5, precisely 400 years ago, a 25-year-old antiquarian and book collector named Edward Dering recorded the first purchase of Shakespeare’s First Folio collection of plays. He ...
by Economaniac
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on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 07:00 AM PST
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On November 8th, 1623, publisher Edward Blount registered 18 previously unpublished plays by the author William Shakespeare with the Stationer’s Guild in London. Printing the 36 plays of the folio, over 900 pages of material, had taken almost two years...
by Economaniac
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 06:51 AM PST
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This is the last of four posts in the series that attempts to make sense of the Jonson elegy To the Memory of my Beloved, The Author William Shakespeare and what he hath left us from the preface materials of the folio. As Wells says, this is the most...
by Economaniac
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on Sun Dec 03, 2023 at 04:32 PM PST
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This is the 9th post in a series. I have been working the last few years on a book about Shakespeare and the 1623 first folio edition of plays with a particular focus on Ben Jonson and the other figures who played a role with Shakespeare in the writing...
by Economaniac
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on Sat Dec 02, 2023 at 08:28 AM PST
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In the previous post in this series I introduced Ben Jonson’s First Folio elegy To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author William Shakespeare and offered some observations about the structure and likely sources and references for the poem. In this essay...
by Economaniac
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on Fri Dec 01, 2023 at 03:38 PM PST
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To the memory of my Beloved: What Ben Jonson tells us about Shakespeare Twelve Days of Shakespeare 7 “Ben Jonson is the person who tells us most about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson was a colleague of Shakespeare, in the sense that some of his plays were put on by Shakespeare’s company, or one of them was, and he clearly, he writes very intimately about...
by Economaniac
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on Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 03:20 PM PST
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