Uploaded September 2016 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
The Folger Shakespeare Library national tour of FIRST FOLIO: THE BOOK THAT GAVE US SHAKESPEARE will be on display at the Benton Museum September 1-25, 2016.
Info on the exhibition and programing can be found at http://www.shakespeare.uconn.edu/
Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night. These famous plays and 15 others by Shakespeare would probably have been lost to us without the First Folio. Published in 1623, the First Folio is the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, and only 233 copies are known today. This year, to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, the Folger Shakespeare Library is sending a First Folio to every state in the United States, and we have been selected for Connecticut. Join us in September 2016 in celebrating the greatest playwright of the English language with this exhibit from the world's largest Shakespeare collection.
Video by Lauren Pfahler and Corlis Fraga
The Folger Shakespeare Library national tour of FIRST FOLIO: THE BOOK THAT GAVE US SHAKESPEARE will be on display at the Benton Museum September 1-25, 2016.
Info on the exhibition and programing can be found at http://www.shakespeare.uconn.edu/
Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night. These famous plays and 15 others by Shakespeare would probably have been lost to us without the First Folio. Published in 1623, the First Folio is the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, and only 233 copies are known today. This year, to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, the Folger Shakespeare Library is sending a First Folio to every state in the United States, and we have been selected for Connecticut. Join us in September 2016 in celebrating the greatest playwright of the English language with this exhibit from the world's largest Shakespeare collection.
Video by Lauren Pfahler and Corlis Fraga
