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 ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - 'Macbeth', p131, p.II 6r.
Macbeth: the text as it first appeared in print.
Macbeth is one of the ‘First Folio’ plays for which there was no previously printed text. Like those of his contemporary fellow playwrights, ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - Roles presented by actors in the play of 'Henry V', p. gg8 v
Characters listed for Shakespeare’s Henry V.
The 'First Folio' did not generally list the characters in a play, but Henry V is an exception. In the Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - The 'players', p. A6r - detail
Shakespeare’s fellow actors.
In the 'First Folio' of Shakespeare's plays, published seven years after his death the names of the principal actors in his company, the King's Men, are named. Richard ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - title page
The 'First Folio' of Shakespeare’s plays.
The book known as the 'First Folio' is a collection of thirty-six of Shakespeare’s plays gathered together and published seven years after the ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, First Folio' - 'Twelfth Night', opening scenes, p.Y2r.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will, in the Shakespeare ‘First Folio’.
The ‘First Folio’ included eighteen plays that had not previously been printed. These included some of the ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 'First Folio', 1623 - Ben Jonson's commendation, p. A4v, detail.
Shakespeare: ‘Sweet Swan of Avon’.
Ben Jonson's poem in the first collected edition of William Shakespeare's plays included the first reference to Shakespeare as the 'swan of Avon' which ...
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice,, 1600 [1619] - Portia pleads for mercy, p.H3r.
‘The quality of mercy’ at Shylock’s trial, in Shakespeare's play.
Antonio’s trial when his forfeit bond is due to be answered contains one of Shakespeare’s most famous ...
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 1600 [1619] - casket scene
Aragon chooses a casket in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Shakespeare explores the idea of obedience in women as Portia has agreed to accept her father’s unusual will which states that ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623 'First Folio',- Ben Jonson's Poem, p. A4v.
Shakespeare's playwright friend Ben Jonson praises his work.
At the front of the plays in the 'First Folio' Shakespeare's friend and fellow playwright, Ben Jonson, describes William Shakespeare as ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - Fairies, p.C3r.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: a Shakespeare fairy song.
The songs, including the fairies’ lullaby to Bottom and Titania, were printed along with the main text of the play in the ‘quarto’ ...
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608 [1619] - F1r, storm scene
Lear’s madness in the storm scene in Shakespeare's play.
The ‘quarto’ text of King Lear differs in about 300 lines from the text printed in the ‘First Folio’ and scholars ...
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1631 - Act 4 begins with after dinner discussion
Shakespeare’s schoolteacher is parodied.
Much of the comedy in Love’s Labour’s Lost is centred on the school teacher and clergyman who are always quoting the Latin classics, and who ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623 , 'First Folio', - binding view
A ‘folio’ owned by The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
The tooling on the spine of this copy of the Shakespeare 'First Folio' matches the restraint of the work on the front and back boards ...