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William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608 [1619] - quarto title page.

Title page information about Shakespeare's the play of King Lear. This 'quarto' page is from the edition with a false earlier date on the title-page, published by Thomas Pavier without the permission ...

William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1631 - the play ends with a song of winter

Poetry in Shakespeare's plays: ‘When icicles hang by the wall’. The play of Love’s Labour’s Lost concludes, as was the custom in many comedies of the time, with a song, in this ...

William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1631 - the Nine Worthies' play ends

The conclusion of a Shakespeare comedy in dance and song: Love’s Labour’s Lost. Before the winter song comes a song of summer. Both are performed at the end of the play by the group of ...

William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1631 - title page detail

Shakespeare’s acting company and their theatres. In Shakespeare's time companies of actors needed a patron to exist within the law. The title-page of a 'quarto' paperback edition of one of Shakespeare's ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623 , 'First Folio' - portrait, title page detail.

William Shakespeare 1564-1616. The portrait of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) from the title page of the first collected edition of his plays. Full title: William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623 ,'First Folio', - The Tempest, p. A1r.

Shakespeare's first and last: The Tempest. The Tempest was almost the last play written by William Shakespeare, but in the ‘Folio’ edition it appears first. There was no ‘quarto’ ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623 'First Folio' - Poem by Ben Jonson, p. A4 r.

Ben Jonson’s tribute to Shakespeare. Several years after William Shakespeare's death in April 1616, his fellow actors at the Globe theatre brought the texts of his plays together for publication ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio'- detail, Ben Jonson's Poem, p. A4r.

The 'First Folio'’s commendatory poem by Ben Jonson. At the beginning of the ‘First Folio’ is a eulogy by Shakespeare’s friend, and rival playwright, Ben Jonson, who had published ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - 'To be or not to be…', p.265, p.oo5r, detail.

‘To be, or not to be’: Shakespeare’s interest in mortality. Hamlet’s soliloquy beginning: ‘To be, or not to be’ (3,1, lines 58-90), in which the prince contemplates ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - 'Twelfth Night', 'Illyria', p.Y2r, detail.

‘This is Illyria lady.’: The setting of Twelfth Night. Few of Shakespeare’s comedies were set in England, although it is not known if the playwright ever travelled abroad. When Viola ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - binding front board

The ‘'cottage-roof'’ style binding for a Shakespeare ‘First Folio’. Lord Ashburnham’s binding for his copy of the Shakespeare 'First Folio' is simple, but elegant, created ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - Commendatory letter 'to the great variety of readers', p.A3r

Shakespeare’s friends write about the ‘First Folio’. John Heminge and Henry Condell, Shakespeare's fellow members in the King's Men at the Globe wrote dedicatory and prefatory letters ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - detail, Macbeth, p.131, p.II 6r.

Macbeth: Shakespeare’s ‘Scottish’ play. Macbeth, which has earned a reputation among the superstitious and has become known by many actors as ‘The Scottish play’, begins ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - detail, 'To be or not to be…', p.265, oo5r.

A scene begins as Hamlet enters an empty stage: in Shakespeare's 'First Folio'. Many of the ‘quarto’ texts, and some of those in the 'First Folio' edition, of the plays were printed without ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - from the text of 'Hamlet'', p.265, p.oo5r.

The tragedie of Hamlet: A page of Shakespeare's 'First Folio' text. The ‘First Folio’ presents the plays as authorised by the acting company. Some, such as Hamlet 3,1, had appeared earlier ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - 'Henry the Fifth', p.h1r.

The Prologue to Shakespeare's Henry V. Shakespeare’s history plays turn the stories found in the English chronicles into tales of human tragedy, discussing the conflicts of life, death and power. ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - List of Actors, p.A6r.

Shakespeare’s fellow actors. The company of actors known as the King’s Men, who first performed Shakespeare’s plays, had their names listed in the ‘First Folio’. Among ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - List of Plays, p.A8r.

The comedies, histories and tragedies: play titles in the ‘First Folio’. The plays, collected together by Shakespeare’s fellow actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell, for the ‘First ...