![]() Ben Jonson’s short poem “To the Reader” commends the engraving as a good likeness of Shakespeare, but points out that readers will have to turn to the texts of the Folio edition to encounter Shakespeare’s wit and mastery of his craft.įurther memorial poetry by Ben Jonson, Hugh Holland, Leonard Digges, and I.M. It is one of only two depictions of Shakespeare that we might consider authentic and a definitive depiction of the playwright. The Droeshout engraving is now believed to be an authentic depiction of Shakespeare as it was approved by Blount, Jaggard, Condell, and Heminges. The Folio’s title page contains an engraving by Martin Droeshout which shows the portrait of Shakespeare. The plays are “truly set forth according to their First Originall”. Published according to the True Originall Copies.” The Folio also includes a list of “Principall Actors”, which repeats the claim to authenticity. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. The title page insists on the authenticity and originality of the textual edition provided here, stating that the Folio contains “Mr. As the editing process was ongoing while the Folio was already being printed, Troilus and Cressida is curiously missing from the “Catalogue”. Generations of critics and researchers have followed these genre classifications put forward here by Heminges and Condell. This categorisation was undertaken by Heminges and Condell and is a key element that guides readers through Shakespeare’s works to this day. The Folio’s prefatory material and paratexts are as fascinating to consider as the plays themselves: The Folio’s “Catalogue”, for example, orders the plays by genre, rather than chronology and divides the plays into tragedies, comedies, and histories. ![]() Plays with a print history prior to the Folio include Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Sometimes, lines or scenes were altered, added to, or completely omitted in the Folio texts. In addition, the Folio contains a number of plays that were printed before 1623 in a quarto format, but the text versions printed in the Folio edition differ from the quarto prints. The Tempest, Macbeth, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, and Antony and Cleopatra are just a few of the plays that would be lost if it were not for the Folio text. Without it, a substantial part of Shakespeare’s dramatic oeuvre would not be known to us today. The First Folio contains thirty-six of Shakespeare’s plays. The selection of plays contained in the Folio was made by John Heminges and Hendry Condell who were actors and share-holders with The King’s Men, the acting company with which Shakespeare worked for most of his career. It was produced by Isaac Jaggard and published by Ed Blount. The First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s dramatic works is now one of the most famous printed works in existence. This facsimile edition was produced by using the complete First Folio collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, which currently owns a total of eighty-two Folio copies that all vary slightly in structure, condition, and appearance. Charlton Hinman died March 16, 1977.The LMU’s Shakespeare Research Library holds a copy of the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare in a Norton Facsimile edition. ![]() KU recognized Hinman as a Distinguished Professor before his passing. Hinman served as an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University before joining the University of Kansas (KU) as a professor in 1960. Hinman was also recognized as a Guggenheim fellow and a Bollingen research fellow for his work in the Folger Shakespeare Library. led to Hinman publishing The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare, a book detailing his examination of the First Folios. His experience with collating the various First Folios at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. This facsimile, The Norton Facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare, was published in 1968 by W.W. Hinman successfully used the collator to create a facsimile of William Shakespeare's First Folio, the first collection of Shakespeare's plays published, 7 years after his death. His experience in Naval intelligence led to him developing the Hinman Collating Machine, or Hinman Collator to facilitate the comparison of pairs of documents for differences in their texts. Navy during World War II, rising to the rank of Commodore. ![]() Hinman recieved his doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1941 while studying as a DuPont research fellow. He received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University, and while studying as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University in Oxford, England recieved an additional bachelor's degree and master's degree. Charlton Joseph Kadio Hinman was born in 1911 in Fort Collins, Colorado. ![]()
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