Others are from the Free Library of Philadelphia, Haverford College, Lehigh University, West Chester, and Bryn Mawr College. The Libraries has been involved in digitizing First Folios that are featured on the website, Pollack says, including Penn’s from 1623. The website, which lists regionwide events, was funded in part by Penn’s Workshop in Material Texts. Kane Professor of English, whose teaching, research, and writing focus on Shakespeare, along with Eleanor Shevlin, professor of English at West Chester University. The event is part of a region-wide series of celebrations of the anniversary, says John Pollack, curator of research services at Penn’s Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, & Manuscripts, who helped to organize the “student-centered” celebration of the First Folio.Ī website named Philly First Folios was created by Penn’s Zachary Lesser, the Edward W.
The others are a second printing, dated 1632 a third printing dated 1664 and another in 1685. One is a first edition printed in London in 1623, published “according to the True Originall Copies” by Isaac Iaggard and Edward Blount. Starring in the historic Lea Library on the sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center were books and other objects from Penn’s Horace Howard Furness Shakespeare Library, including the four folio printings of the 17th century. John Pollack (fourth from left) of the Penn Libraries organized the First Folio Day and chose the Shakespeare-related works to put on display. The celebration on Sunday afternoon marked the day of Shakespeare’s birth on Ap(as legend has it), and the day of his death in 1616. “All semester we’ve been asking, ‘How are these plays, over 400 years later, still so vibrant and alive and accessible in terms of the characters’ passions and emotional lives, and how does the profundity of the questions these plays ask remain so resonant and urgent today?’” says Thompson.
Thompson said her class visited the Libraries early in the semester to see some of the historical texts. In addition, three students chosen in an English Department sonnet contest read their original works. The 16 class members took turns performing excerpts from “Romeo and Juliet,” “Hamlet,” and “Twelfth Night,” explaining what they learned throughout the hourlong performance. William Shakespeare was the star of the show during a Penn Libraries celebration of his “Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies,” better known as the First Folio, in this 400th year since its publication.īut the starring performers were Penn students in the Theatre Arts Program’s Acting Shakespeare class, taught by Jennifer Joan Thompson of the School of Arts & Sciences.
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