The First Folio of Shakespeare
- ISBN-10
- 0393039854
- ISBN-13
- 9780393039856
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 928
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- William Shakespeare
Description
When it was first published in 1968, this justly famous First Folio of Shakespeare's plays--a full-sized photographic facsimile that has won the admiration of actors and scholars throughout the world--set a new standard for scholarly accuracy, introducing, among other features, a standard system of reference, "through line numbering", based on the lines printed in the 1623 edition. Slipcase.
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Other editions
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- 1998
- 316 pages
- Paperback
- Yushodo Press
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