As my own small contribution to the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the printing of the first folio of Shakespeare’s plays in this second episode of a short mini-series I look at the inspiration and motivations for the First Folio and how it was produced
What prompted the creator to produce the First Folio?
Ben Johnson’s First Folio
John Hemenge – Actor and Administrator
Henry Condell – Actor and friend of Shakespeare
Richard Burbage – Just a brief sketch
How the plays existed in print and manuscript and how they were collected
Financing the project
Edward Blunt, Bookseller and his previous work with Shakespeare’s plays
Willian Jaggard, printer and his previous work with Shakespeare’s plays and poems
Isacc Jaggard and his workshop
The printing method
Apprentices and printing errors
Decretive woodblocks
The engraved portrait
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