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Five extremely rare editions of Shakespeare's works, including four 17th-century folios and a collection of poems, are on sale for $10.5 million.

I’m listening to BBC Radio 1, where they are interviewing the 26-year-old actor and singer Dove Cameron about her globally successful hit, Boyfriend. The DJ, Melvin Odoom, asks her, “Do you think that your acting career has helped you with, kind of, like, your music career?” “For me they’re, like, the same energy,” replies Cameron. “Which is, like, when people are, like, ‘You have to choose,’ I’m like, ‘They feel the same!’” It’s the most predictable celebrity intervi...

The First Folio, the first book to collect the Bard’s works in one place, was originally published in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death. The edition, put together by Shakespeare’s friends and fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell, included 36 plays, 18 of which had never been published before. It was an instant hit, and nine years later, the Second Folio was created, as publishers looked to capitalize on the popularity of the first edition. “The Second F...