Happy 400th birthday to Shakespeare’s First Folio! Our copy is on free public display in the Treasury until 20 November, alongside later editions of Shakespeare’s works and books by some of his contemporaries.

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A sycamore aslant a brook, showing his bright leaves in the glassy stream 💛💙💛
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Today marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio, the first printed collection of William Shakespeare's plays. Without this book 18 plays would be lost. The Royal Library’s copy belonged to George IV.
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'I am a kind of burr; I shall stick'
(Measure for Measure)

Burdock fruits now & summer flowers💜🤎💜
Velcro's inventor noticed how effectively burr hooks attached themselves to his dog 🐶 #ShakespeareSunday #folio400

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First Folio memorial in London dedicated to its editors John Hemminges and Henry Condell. City of London. 1895/96 Shakespeare by C.J. Allen combines Droeshout and Shakespeare on tomb in Stratford with stone First Folio.

'Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.'
Check out Shakespeare Vs. Cthulhu: What Dreams May Come by Jonathan Green on Kickstarter #Final48hours #Folio400 kickstarter.com/projects/jonat…

And the First Folio #Folio400 season comes to an end ⁦The Queen's College⁩ with a wonderful, expansive talk by ⁦Emma Smith⁩

Happy #Folio400 day! You can read about the only copy in Ireland on our blog: tcd.ie/library/manusc…

#GamebookFriday 'Shakespeare Vs. Cthulhu: What Dreams May Come' - a choose-your-own-adventure style interactive gamebook - is coming to Kickstarter next year. Find out more here: mailchi.mp/5d8ad4b0736c/s…… #PleaseRT #acegamebooks #shakespeare #Folio400 #rpgs #PleaseShare #PleaseRT

Today we had actor Simon Callow visit the library to look through our First Folio for a feature in the Guardian. The folio will be on display Monday 10.30-3.30 with talks on the hour. If you can't make Monday it'll be on display for several months later in the year. #Folio400

“Towards Ludlow then, for we'll not stay behind” Celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare. Hath ye all a merry Wednesday 😁
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Happy #Folio400 day! 🎭📜🎉

400 years ago today, Shakespeare’s first folio was published. Without it, 18 of his plays would have been lost!

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📸 Simone Best, Pete Messum, Handwritten Photography & Lily Tomlinson

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Celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday with a visit to the First Folio exhibition at New Place and his grave at Holy Trinity Church. #Folio400

Shakespeare's first folio, 1623, at IU's Lilly Library.

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(Photo + h/t Thom Atkinson)

Sat. July 1st, We're a Bard Stop Drop in any time, -encounter a Bard wandering the wilderness, reciting soem melancholy - or merry - Shakespearean lines..

FOLIO 400 celebrations Festival 36
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It was wonderful to see a packed Shulman Auditorium yesterday for Professor Emma Smith's fantastic talk on the First Folio. We hope everyone enjoyed getting to see the unusual proof page in the Queen's Folio up close afterwards too! #Folio400

Ready to welcome everyone for #FolioDay . Our First Folio, Third Folio and copies of Othello and Henry IV will be on display today in the library. Our librarians will be giving talks at 11, 12, 1, 2 and 3pm. #Folio400

For those unable to come to the private view of our #Folio400 exhibition last night we have a webinar on Tuesday 14 November. To book use this link us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Or book to visit in person via trybooking.com/uk/events/land…

Today we celebrate #Folio400 - 400 years since Shakespeare's First Folio was published.

Although there are no links with the Bard; the Merchant Adventurers supported The Mystery Plays which remained popular in the 16th century.

The plays highlighted York's taste for theatre...