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“The book of his good acts”: Shakespeare’s First Folio onstage and on the page
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Austin Tichenor
Marking the 400th anniversary of the First Folio, Austin Tichenor compares The Book of Will, Lauren Gunderson’s popular play about the Folio’s creation, with new research shared by Chris Laoutaris in Shakespeare’s Book.
The Book of Will: An imagined backstory for the Shakespeare First Folio
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Esther French
The Book of Will, a new play by Lauren Gunderson, explores the back-story of how Shakespeare’s friends assembled his plays into the book we know today as the First Folio, without which we might have forever lost plays such as…
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