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The Book of Will

“The book of his good acts”: Shakespeare’s First Folio onstage and on the page
Austin Tichenor as Richard Burbage
Shakespeare and Beyond

“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.

Playing Richard Burbage
Austin Tichenor as Richard Burbage
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Playing Richard Burbage

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Austin Tichenor

Austin Tichenor of the Reduced Shakespeare Company shares what it’s like to play Richard Burbage onstage in Lauren Gunderson’s “The Book of Will.”

The Book of Will: An imagined backstory for the Shakespeare First Folio
The Book of Will
Shakespeare and Beyond

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…