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In December's Quadrant, Salvatore Babones mooted the theory that the Bard was actually Kit Marlowe, reports of whose death may well have been premature. William Rubinstein begs to differ. While agreeing Shakespeare was not the author of the works that bear his name, his pick, based on what would otherwise be a series of remarkable coincidences and overlapping circles, is Sir Henry Neville

First Folio, first published edition (1623) of the collected works of William Shakespeare, originally published as Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies. It is the major source for contemporary texts of his plays. The publication of drama in the early 17th century was usually

The tunnels, known as Popes Grotto, are the last remaining part of the writers villa and gardens, built on the banks of the Thames at Twickenham in south London in the 18th century.

John M. Wisdom on the sixty-third annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.

A Penn Libraries celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of William Shakespeare’s “Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies” featured students performing scenes and a rare appearance of four First Folios.

William Shakespeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, died at the age of 52 on April 23, 1616....

Published 400 years ago, the book fixed the playwright’s canon for posterity | Culture

Officially titled 'Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies,' the more than 900-page tome collected together 36 of the Renaissance writer’s plays for the first time.

The display, which marks the 400th anniversary of the Folio, includes a tiny notebook giving a 12,000-word commentary on the text.

A number of valuable, important, or rare manuscripts have been swiped from authors or the individuals or institutions tasked with taking care of them. Here’s a sampling of them.