{"id":2242,"date":"2012-04-23T13:47:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T13:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2013-09-13T18:51:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T18:51:41","slug":"shakespeares-second-folio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2012\/04\/23\/shakespeares-second-folio\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare’s Second Folio"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today is the day that William Shakespeare’s <\/a>birthday (1564) is observed and we here in the Special Collections are hopping on that bandwagon.\u00a0 You would probably think that we surely don’t have any cool old stuff related to the Bard–but you would be wrong!<\/p>\n

We do indeed have two intact plays from what is known as Shakespeare’s Second Folio<\/a>.\u00a0 The Second Folio was printed in 1632 and contains the same plays as the First Folio (published in 1623) but with quite a few modifications to the text.\u00a0 The only real addition to the Second Folio was a poem by John Milton entitled “An Epitaph on Shakespeare<\/a>” (believed to be Milton’s first published poem) that was added to the poems that open the Folio.<\/p>\n

The Second Folio is interesting for many reasons<\/strong>, including:<\/p>\n