“Students and scholars are still learning about the editing and printing of Shakespeare’s plays by studying these volumes, hundreds of years after they were first produced,” she said. Stern ’56 Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts. “The 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s collected plays offers us a welcome opportunity to bring this special 1623 volume out of the rare book vault,” said Katherine Reagan, the library’s Ernest L.
in the lecture room on level 2B of Carl A. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of this fateful collection of plays known as the First Folio, Cornell University Library is displaying its copy at a special one-day event, “Shakespeare’s First Folio at 400: A ‘Pop-Up’ Showcase,” on April 21 from 1 to 5 p.m. A world without “Macbeth,” “Twelfth Night,” “The Tempest” or “Julius Caesar”? Half of William Shakespeare’s dramatic works – including these four – would have been lost forever if it weren’t for the posthumous publication of his collected plays in 1623, in which 18 appeared in print for the first time.
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