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An Original Copy of Shakespeare’s First Full Collection Sold for $10 Million at Auction
InsideHook ^
| Oct. 15, 2020
| Carl Caminetti
Posted on 10/15/2020 5:51:41 PM PDT by libstripper
In what has been called a once-in-a-generation event, a complete and original copy of Shakespeares First Folio sold for a record-setting price just under $10 million at auction earlier this week.
The First Folio, published in 1623, was the first complete printed collection of Shakespeares plays. Published seven years after the authors death, the book marked not only the first complete collection of Shakespeares works, but also the first time those works were organized as comedies, tragedies and histories. There are around 235 copies known to exist, and only six complete ones owned privately.
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WOW!! Look at a picture of the book; it's in terrific condition. I hope the new owner allows a PDF of it to be made and published. There's one out there of the first edition of Churchills The River War and it's terrific. Also the only available electronic version of that work that I know of.
To: libstripper
And no white gloves. Surprising
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posted on
10/15/2020 5:55:35 PM PDT
by
Track9
(English language instruction in china is sponsored by the CCP to facilitate espionage.)
To: libstripper
They may want their money back. It doesn't include Pericles, Two Noble Kinsman, Cardenio, or Love's Labor Won, etc.
To: libstripper
All that glisters is not gold...
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posted on
10/15/2020 5:57:35 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: libstripper
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posted on
10/15/2020 6:06:27 PM PDT
by
2banana
(Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
To: libstripper
A sure way to make millions! 1. Buy a book by someone really, really famous; 2. Wait 400 years; 3. Ka-ching!
To: libstripper
Were the sellers Rick and Marty Lagina?
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posted on
10/15/2020 6:13:04 PM PDT
by
faucetman
(Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: 2banana
😁👍❤
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posted on
10/15/2020 6:18:58 PM PDT
by
TianaHighrider
(God bless President Trump)
To: libstripper
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
10/16/2020 8:41:29 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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posted on
10/16/2020 8:43:40 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: libstripper
Didnt transcriptions of Shakespeares works start out as bootlegs?
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posted on
10/16/2020 8:46:09 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
To: a fool in paradise
Shakespeare never published. He lived before copyright laws. There were people who were paid to attend plays at the Globe theatre and memorize the scripts. Soon the Globe’s competitors would produce the same plays.
The folios were published six years after his death, represent some sort of consensus of Shakespeare work. There was more than one publisher of Shakespeare’s folios, and they do not all completely agree. What we think of as Shakespeare is the consensus opinion of Shakespeare scholars, mostly from the 19th Century.
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posted on
10/16/2020 9:01:59 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
To: a fool in paradise
FWIW, Homer’s works were never written down until 200 years after his death, though his poems were recited from memory by bards continuously until they were codified in written consensus versions.
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posted on
10/16/2020 9:04:37 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
To: SunkenCiv
I've found a YouTube channel that offers videos featuring British historians, covering all subject matter. They usually have guests on during each of their videos. Alexandra Churchill is one of the hosts. She has recently appeared in the second season of War Factories which airs in the U.K. on the Yesterday Channel. Her expertise is WWI.
The YouTube channel is called History Hack. Here is the link if anyone is interested:
History Hack Channel
There are already a bunch of videos that will take me forever to catch up on, but the variety of historical subjects is excellent, and their guests are individuals who have appeared as commentators, or historians in many of the programs shown in the U.K. and here.
This is Alexandra Churchill's website:
Alexandra Churchill
For those that do Facebook, here's the link to her Facebook page:
Alexandra Churchill - Facebook
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posted on
10/16/2020 12:13:27 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
To: SunkenCiv
Can’t imagine what the Cancel Culture might do to Shakespeare. Ugh.
To: nickcarraway
They may want their money back. It doesn't include Pericles, Two Noble Kinsman, Cardenio, or Love's Labor Won, etc. The collection that includes those is buried on Oak Island next to the Ark of the Covenant.
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posted on
10/18/2020 9:03:18 AM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: libstripper
10 Mill for Shakespeare's originals. Yet this piece of crap modern "art" by some lunatic goes for 110 Mill.
The world's gone mad.
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posted on
10/27/2020 2:40:32 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
This topic was posted , thanks libstripper.
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posted on
11/27/2022 3:13:11 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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