![]() For more information, please contact Rare Books and Special Collections at (604) 822-2521 or can read more about the acquisition and view a curated photo collection of Shakespeare’s First Folio at UBC Library. Neil Freeman, the director of the UBC Romeo and Juliet, leans heavily on the early texts, especially the First Folio, for his work with actors. to a transfer of knowledge from teacher to student. SET BENEATH A glass case on the fourth floor of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Shakespeare’s 399-year-old First Folio now sits open to the first scene of Macbeth.Ornate scrollwork adorns the page atop the title in original Elizabethan script: The Tragedie of Macbeth. One of 235 copies in existence, UBC’s copy is only the second in Canada, the other being at a university in. This section will display all your e-folio posts. ![]() The process to digitize the First Folio took more than a year to facilitate due to the Folio’s age and fragility. The RBSC reading room is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. Editor’s note: in January 2022, the University of British Columbia announced the acquisition of a rare copy of the first edition of the collected plays of William Shakespeare, known to scholars as the First Folio, published in 1623. 21 November, 2022 UBC Library has made its first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies openly accessible to the public by publishing a digitized version of the volume online through Open Collections. The acquisition comes with a mandate to ensure public access to the unique volume. To compliment the exhibition at the VAG, a display of books from RBSC’s collection that support early modern and Shakespeare studies will be up through the end of February 2022 in the Rare Books and Special collections reading room. The First Folio, previously owned by a private collector in the United States, was acquired by UBC through Christie’s New York with funds donated by a consortium of across North America and with generous support from the Department of Canadian Heritage. For further information, please visit vanartgallery.bc.ca. The exhibition will be accompanied by an audio mobile guide featuring the voice of Christopher Gaze, Founding Artistic Director, Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, in addition to a series of public programs, including talks, performances and more. The exhibition, For All Time – The Shakespeare FIRST FOLIO marks the first time that all four Folios have been presented in Vancouver. ![]() In partnership with the Vancouver Art Gallery, this tangible piece of cultural heritage will be exhibited to the public from January 12 to March 22 along with three subsequent seventeenth-century Folio editions of Shakespeare’s plays. ![]() 16th century London and 21st century Vancouver. ![]()
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