This year marks the 400th-anniversary of the printing of Shakespeare’s First Folio. To mark the occasion, Stonyhurst College is putting on an exhibition this summer which will share the stories of 40 objects from its Museum and Archives, each of which has a unique link to Shakespeare’s plays which feature in the First Folio.
In 1623, it is believed 750 copies of the First Folio were printed, seven years after the death of its author, and was the first printed edition of Shakespeare’s collection of plays. 235 copies are known to have survived with 50 books still in the UK. Stonyhurst College proudly holds one of these copies within its Museum and Archives, the oldest collection of museum objects in the English-speaking world.
The Folio 400: A Summer of Shakespeare exhibition will be open to the public on select days in July and August. For more information, and to book a free ticket, click here.
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