Tuesday, February 24, 2015

First Folio found in France to visit Shakespeare' Globe

British actor Mark Rylance, who was the first Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe theatre and plays Thomas Cromwell in the Wolf Hall television series currently airing in the UK, poses for photographers with the First Folio of Shakespeare plays recently discovered in Saint-Omer in France, at Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London, Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. The edition, which will be exhibited at the Globe in 2016, the year of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeares' death, is one of 230 copies of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio and is notable for its scribbled stage directions. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) LONDON (AP) — A rare first edition of William Shakespeare's plays is to go on display in the Bard's spiritual home, just a few hundred yards (meters) from where it was printed in 1623.








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