First Folio

lost forever in the beginning of the sixteenth century. It is only due to the First Folio, a collection of Shakespeare’s plays that has allowed for Shakespeare’s stories to live centuries after his death. Generations of people have been able to study his works and memorize his lines because of this one very important historical document. The First Folio easily could be argued the most influential book related to English literature. Gallaudet University has recently had this book on display to honor William Shakespeare’s works and life as one of the world’s greatest playwrights to ever live. During the month of October Gallaudet University hosted an exhibit of William Shakespeare’s…

Hamlet There are multiple editions of Hamlet that have been published since Shakespeare’s time. The three main editions are known as the Quartos (one and two) and the First Folio. Because of this, the contents of Hamlet may vary from edition to edition. This was something that surprised me when I first found out about it, so when I looked up two online editions I wanted them to be completely different so I could see how the text had been changed. Folger Digital Texts had a clear and…

delivered a speech to the incoming freshman. His speech was “Why Read Shakespeare?”. Mack composed an effective argument that even though Shakespeare can be difficult to read, it’s worth the effort. He strengthened the argument with his use of Rhetorical Devices and Claims. The first technique that Mack used to advance his argument was his use of Rhetorical Devices. “There is also music you don’t particularly like the first time you hear it. But, if you give it a chance, it grows on you.” (Lines…

possesses the original copy. The three main versions that editors typically pull from as well as blend together are: quarto 1 (bad quarto), quarto 2 (good quarto), and the first folio (F). Quarto one is often not incorporated as much due to it being having the consistencies of a “rough draft”, so to speak. The first quarto “is much shorter, some 2,200 lines, just over half of the second Quarto, the longest textual version” (Tronch-Perez 16). As for the origin, Albert B. Weiner famously argues…

Adnan Riaz Professor Shakespearian Problem Plays Date: All’s Well that Ends Well as a “Problem Play” All’s well that ends well is a famous play by William Shakespeare that has grabbed serious critical appreciation in the Twentieth Century for its style and Problems it gives birth to and discusses. It was written in 1604 and1605 and was published in the First Folio in 1623. Gray Waller gives an in-depth view of the play. In the last twenty years has an adequate critical vocabulary been developed…

when the romantic spirit was melting with the modern, idealism with realism. (Document 3) He wrote many romantic tragedies such as “Romeo and Juliet”, which is one of the most famous writings of all time. Almost everyone has heard the classic story. He had the talent to delineate characters, which represent distinct individualities. (Document 3) He was a very talented man. Many scholars have devoted their lives to investigating and discovering more about Shakespeare. One of those scholars,…

playwriter of tragedies and historical dramas. In his lifespan he invented over 1700 words, wrote 154 sonnets, two narrative poems and 38 plays. He was crowned the greatest English dramatist by creating modern drama, which are still enjoyed across state boarders till this day, 400 years after his passing. Shakespeare is the perfect product of the Elizabethan Era, also called the “Golden age”, an epoch of the English Renaissance, which thrived under the reign of Queen Elizabeth in 1558–1603.…

1608 (including Othello and King Lear), which are considered to be some of the finest and best works in the English Language. Of particular note, and which this essay will mainly focus, is one of his most celebrated plays The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark , which was published in several different versions across several years from 1603 to 1623 (but the Second Quarto, published in 1604, and the First Folio, published in 1623, are considered to be the most reliable texts, being over…

reading The Tempest with the New World in mind it becomes apparent Shakespeare created several of the characters in the play to be a representation of different kinds of people who were involved with the colonization of the New World at the time. Prospero represented a conqueror, Caliban represented the resentful natives, Ariel represented the submissive natives, Stephano and Trinculo were the people who saw the people of the New World as a sub-human race and treated them like objects, and…

Julius Caesar is a tragedy play which displays countless instances of superstitions, supernatural and omens which foreshadow Caesar’s faith. It is one of the few plays by William Shakespeare which he wrote about true historical events in Roman history. Julius Caesar was originally published in the First Folio in 1623, having purely authoritative text about the play. However, it’s first performance was mentioned by Thomas Platter the Younger in his diary, which dates September 1599 . It is a play…