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Shakespeare First Folio Discovered in Scotland

April 8, 2016

Another Shakespeare First Folio has been discovered in Scotland on the Isle of Bute, less than 18 months after a copy was discovered in 2014, by a librarian in Saint-Omer, near Calais. Unlike many of the 230 od... Read More...

Shakespeare Or Not Shakespeare, That Is The Question

C S Hughes

May 21, 2015

History

Historian and botanist Mark Griffiths in a recent article in Country Life Magazine claimed to have discovered the only verifiable portrait of Shakespeare made during the bard's lifetime. The editor of Country L... Read More...

Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio Discovered by a Librarian in France

Olga Hughes

November 26, 2014

Books, History, News

A copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio, one of only 231 of the first-ever compilation of his plays, has been discovered in the library of a small town in Saint-Omer near Calais. The folio was published in ... Read More...

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