{"product_id":"shakespeares-first-folio-16232023-9781350436367","title":"Shakespeares First Folio 16232023","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis wide-ranging collection reflects on the various motivations that caused the Folio to come into being in 1623, 7 years after Shakespeare's death, and on how the now iconic book has been continually reimagined after its initial publication to the present day.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In honour of its original publication, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives\u003c\/i\u003e brings together a remarkable set of ground-breaking essays by an international group of scholars. From the beginning, the publication that came to be called the First Folio' was defined by the tension between the book as text and the book as a material object. In this volume, the individual contributions move between these two meaningsin that they consider precursors to the First Folio in the form of reader-assembled volumes; the poetic identity of Shakespeare; and how misfortunes and successes in the early modern printing house shaped Shakespeare's text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapters examine the unpredictable and often s\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407553929559,"sku":"9781350436367","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350436367.jpg?v=1730499754","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeares-first-folio-16232023-9781350436367","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}