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King Lear: 400 years of the second quarto of Shakespeare’s great tragedy

King Lear: 400 years of the second quarto of Shakespeare’s great tragedy

by Talking Humanities | Jan 15, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Publications, Research & Resources

We are so used to today’s definitive texts that it is easy to forget how elusive in the early modern period a definitive text can be. Indeed, literary experts still argue about whether early volumes of Shakespeare are the same play or different versions. It’s...
Shakespeare scintillation: Senate House Library’s first folios

Shakespeare scintillation: Senate House Library’s first folios

by Talking Humanities | Mar 15, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications

Image: Spine of the Sterling first folio What, one might wonder, remains to be said about any single known Shakespeare first folios? Have not Anthony West’s 2003 detailed twenty-first censuses, alone and with Eric Rasmussen’s 2011 publication covered everything? Not...

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