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Shakespeare & Beyond

Following the First Folio tour to Maryland, Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Tennessee

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The First Folio tour is coming to an end! These are the last tour stops where the First Folio will be on display, after which the books will be returning home to the Folger Shakespeare Library, where they will join the First Folio! Shakespeare’s American Tour exhibition. This exhibition, which features the most First Folios ever displayed in one place, opened Saturday and goes through Jan 22, 2017.

Learn more about the national tour: First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare

Here’s where you can see the First Folios on display in November and December:

  • Nov 1 – Dec 4:  St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD
  • Nov 3 – Dec 11:  University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI
  • Nov 5 – Dec 11:  Emory University, Atlanta, GA
  • Nov 10 – Dec 4:  Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
  • Nov 10 – Dec 10: Frazier History Museum, University of Louisville, and Louisville Free Public Library,  Louisville, KY
  • Nov 10 – Jan 8, 2017: The Parthenon, Nashville, TN

We’ve gathered some social media highlights from each tour stop:

Annapolis, MD

Madison, WI

https://www.instagram.com/p/BL9iWewjYfm/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMZXu-EjVEP/

Atlanta, GA

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMaWrCXAxdS/

Elizabethtown, PA

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMrBtuKhRpG/

Louisville, KY

https://twitter.com/kyshakespeare/status/797137465203113988

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMuSGFHBXKR/

Nashville, TN

parthenon-shakespeare

https://twitter.com/AquinasTenn/status/799284495878942720

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMrysqFgyca/

 

Esther French

Esther French is the Digital Managing Editor at the Folger Shakespeare Library. — View all posts by Esther French