{"id":8651,"date":"2016-08-24T21:14:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsunmedia.com\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2016-08-24T21:14:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:14:57","slug":"when-all-the-worlds-on-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/24\/when-all-the-worlds-on-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"When all the world\u2019s on paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakespeare\u2019s First Folio on display in Boise<\/h2>\n

By Dana DuGan<\/em><\/p>\n

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The first printed version of \u201cMacbeth\u201d is in the First Folio. Courtesy photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Have you ever seen a play, read a book or gone to a film? If so, you\u2019ve been influenced by William Shakespeare\u2019s work. Even more so than Dickens and Hemingway, Shakespeare is the most recognizable writer who has ever lived.<\/p>\n

Now, \u201cFirst Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare\u201d is on display at Boise State University, through Friday, Sept. 23.<\/p>\n

After he died, in 1616, two of Shakespeare\u2019s fellow thespians \u2013 John Heminges and Henry Condell, <\/span>who had memorized the plays \u2013 decided to assemble 36 of his scripts and publish them in a 4-pound, 13-ounce folio. Published in 1623, there were originally 750 folios produced, with 235 of them surviving. One was recently uncovered in a Scottish manor home, authenticated and put on display.<\/p>\n

The Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, D.C., which has the world\u2019s largest Shakespeare collection,<\/span> owns 82 of them. This year, the Folger is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Bard\u2019s death with a variety of events under the banner, \u201cThe Wonder of Will \u2013 400 Years of Shakespeare.\u201d As one of its outreach projects, it has sent 18 folios out on tour \u2013 six at a time \u2013<\/span> to each of the 50 states.<\/p>\n

The First Folio lives in a specially constructed glass case, is 393 years old, 630 pages long, and is worth more than $5 million \u2013 and is, for many, the paper equivalent of The Holy Grail.<\/span><\/p>\n

Without the First Folio we wouldn\u2019t have 18 of Shakespeare\u2019s plays, including \u201cAs You Like It,\u201d \u201cAntony and Cleopatra,\u201d \u201cJulius Caesar,\u201d \u201cMacbeth,\u201d \u201cTwelfth Night,\u201d \u201cThe Tempest\u201d and \u201cThe Comedy of Errors.\u201d All 18 appeared for the first time in print in the original folio and would otherwise have been lost.<\/p>\n

The book is also the only source of the familiar dome-headed portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost unimaginable to think of a world without Shakespeare. Not just the above plays produced hundreds of times every year across the globe, but authors who used Shakespeare to teach them about storytelling, pacing and language, and filmmakers who updated the material over and over.<\/p>\n

Then there are the performances:<\/span> <\/b>Judi Dench as Juliet in \u201c<\/span>Romeo & Juliet,\u201d Laurence Olivier as \u201cRichard III,\u201d Kenneth Brannagh\u2019s \u201cHenry V,\u201d <\/span>Emma Thompson as Beatrice in \u201cMuch Ado About Nothing,\u201d Mark Rylance as (yes!) Olivia in \u201cTwelfth Night,\u201d<\/span> Derek Jacobi as \u201cRichard II,\u201d John Gielgud as \u201cKing Lear.\u201d The list goes on, with more and more added to the list of actors interpreting Shakespeare in career-defining performances.<\/p>\n

Anyone who thinks Shakespeare is no longer relevant just has to consider the long lines at<\/span> the Yanke Family Research Park\u00a0at 220 E. Parkcenter Boulevard In Boise. The exhibit is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. There are associated <\/b>s<\/span>pecial events all month long. Parking for all events is free. For more information or to sign up for the mailing list contact firstfolio@boisestate.edu or call (208) 426-5754.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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