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Great Performances Traces the History of Shakespeare’s First Folio and Spotlights the Impact of Shakespeare on Today’s World in New Documentary Premiering Friday, November 17 at 9:00 pm on PBS"M

The First Folio was published in November 1623, Shakespeare's plays collected and bound by colleagues after his death. The world owes them profound gratitude. By Warwick McFadyen

Cheyenne and Laramie County

Making Shakespeare: The First Folio - Great PerformancesTV Schedule for New Hampshires only statewide locally owned and operated television network, engages minds, connects communities, and celebrates New Hampshire with programs that entertain, educate and enrich.

A scattershot ‘Great Performances’ production on PBS revisits the original printing, 400 years ago, of Shakespeare’s previously uncollected plays.

Celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio of 1623, Princeton University Library presents an exhibition featuring wide-ranging selection of rarely-seen materials—from a first edition of Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” to Morrison’s handwritten manuscript drafts of “Desdemona”—that offer glimpses into the relationship between author, book, and reader and invite the visitor to discover not just Shakespeare but all good book...

Tickets cost £15, and are available on the door or from Rhyl Music Club’s website.

Studio Theatre’s production of James Ijames' Pultizer and Tony-winning Fat Ham is a fast-paced, slow-cooked treat.

This year marks 400 years since the first publication of Shakespeare’s plays. The ‘First Folio’ was a labour of love and a statement of intent, writes Robert McCrum – and yet, the Bard would express mystified pleasure at the fuss we’ve been making

Who, pray tell, were John Heminges and Henry Condell ? Men responsible for “the most important secular book in the history of the Western world,” according to…