BBCNEWS The July 5, 2024
what does the first folio mean to you? well, i mean, it contains so many of the plays... ..that are the reason why shakespeare is the cornerstone of our cultural life in the way that he is. he simply wouldn't exist... ..as part of the kind of national conversation in the way that he does without the first folio. those... we would have lost so many of those plays. you know, i'm sitting here at the end of my first day of rehearsals for macbeth, a play that's been in performance now for over 400 years. but it wouldn't exist. we wouldn't have a copy of it. and even those that we did have...
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