The First Folio at the University of Glasgow
Published: 27 March 2023
Sunday 23 April 2023
Sunday 23 April 2023
1.00pm - 2.00pm
Hunterian Museum
Free
2023 marks the 400th Birthday of The First Folio, the first printed edition of William Shakespeare’s collected plays.
As part of the UK and Ireland Folio400 celebrations, three copies in Scottish collections will go on public display throughout 2023.
The Scottish held copies that will be accessible to the public in 2023 are at the University of Glasgow, the National Library of Scotland and Mount Stuart Trust.
Only 18 of Shakespeare's plays appeared in print during his lifetime, and some of these were in corrupt or pirated editions. The First Folio collection contains 36 plays, 18 of which were here published for the first time, thus saving such works as The Tempest and Macbeth from probable extinction.
Join Julie Gardham, Librarian in Archives and Special Collections at the University of Glasgow to find out more about this important book and its significance.
First published: 27 March 2023
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