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LONDON, Oct 27 — Few antique books attract as much collector interest as rare copies of the First Folio, a collection of 36 Shakespeare plays. An excerpt from one of them will soon be offered at auction at Holabird Western Americana Collections. It contains the complete play, Henry IV, Part 1....

The fragment will be offered on Day 2 of Holabird Western Americana Collections’ 5-day Autumn Splendor Western Americana Auction, online and live in Reno, Nev.

RENO, Nev. – An exceedingly rare First Folio single play “fragment” of William Shakespeare’s The First Part of Henry the Fourth, published in 1623, will be offered during Holabird Western ...

First Folio Theatre will present the world premiere of Joseph Zettelmaiers "The Jigsaw Bride," previewing Oct. 13-15, at Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook.

The Edward W. Kane Professor of English uses ghosts, holes, and scrapes to learn more about how Shakespeare’s work was seen in his own time.

A grad student’s side project spawns a text games renaissance, leading to thousands of new games and decades of innovation.

POTSDAM — In step with pandemic-year hobby discovery — like new investments in container gardening, ukulele strumming or bread baking — Jacob D. Roberts turned to ciphers.

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The Remember Me campaign for a Covid memorial at St Paul’s Cathedral was handed a £100,000 boost yesterday thanks to a generous donation from property developer Sir John Ritblat. The businessman and philanthropist said he and his family felt ‘privileged’ to join those helping create the national memorial ‘as a place for all faiths to visit and remember those who have died’. The donation took the campaign, which is backed by the Daily Mail, over the £1.75million mark – meaning it i...

kot63/iStock via Getty Images Plus Can anything beat the smell of an old book? The scent can be delightfully musty, with grassy notes of smoked wood and delicate chocolate. It has the power to transport readers to a far-flung time and place, to the oak-paneled library of their dreams. The odor is caused by a flurry of volatile organic compounds—such as furfural or benzaldehyde—that drift off the yellowing pages as the text ages. Books, after all, are made from organic materials such as leat...