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Overview

Shakespeare's First Folio, the first complete collection of his plays, was almost never printed. Its eventual publication went practically unnoticed, and many of the original 750 copies were gone before the turn of the eighteenth century. But a hundred years later the plays were rediscovered, beginning the long, surprising process that secured Shakespeare's legacy. Paul Collins follows this book's journey through the centuries, as it lies undiscovered for decades, burns, sinks, is bought and sold, and ultimately becomes untouchable.

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Megan Buskey
Collins writes in this lively and entertaining history of one of the most important books in English literature. Part antiquarian-book primer, part chronicle of literary curiosities, The Book of William is divided into five acts, each evoking a significant place and time in the First Folio's colorful history.
—The New York Times
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Undoubtedly, the Bard himself would be amused to learn all about the fate of the book compiled after his death by fellow actors and colleagues John Heminge and Henry Condell. It was, a collector said recently, "the most important secular work of all time." Collins (Sixpence House), an English professor and NPR regular, is passionate, knowledgeable and sassy in bringing this story to glorious life. Collins divides his work into five acts, leading his reader on a whirlwind trip through the Four Folios eventually printed, into feuds between Alexander Pope and Lewis Theobald and to the opportunistic reach of a financially desperate Dr. Johnson. Over the next 200 years, there are the stories of Henry Clay Folger as well as an ingenious collating machine and related technologies for today's textual scholars. Collins's remarkable voyage through time and across the globe leads to Japan, where the most obsessive collectors of "Sheikusupia" reside. This is for anyone with an interest in how Shakespeare has come down to us, the nature of the book business, the art of editing and the evolution of copyright law. A 20-page "Further Readings" section is by itself a sheer delight. (July)

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In recent years several authors have taken on the daunting challenge of biographizing Shakespeare. From the scrappy Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt to the highbrow ruminations of Harold Bloom's Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human, books abound that interweave the meagre details of Shakespeare's life with the rich history of his time, seeking ways to account for the eruption of his singular genius. In fact, the motivations of readers and publishers in the fraught era following the Bard's lifetime may have more to tell us about the transmission of that genius and the construction of its legacy. In The Book of William, Paul Collins unclasps the secret book of the First Folio -- the first posthumously-published edition of the Bard's plays and the chief source for his work -- and reads matter deep and dangerous. For this legacy of world literature would have been lost in nature's infinite book of secrecy were it not for the greed of early publishers, the burgeoning enthusiasm of critics and the public, and the tender ministrations of collectors. Collins, a professor and book sleuth in the McSweeney's orbit, follows the fate of the few surviving First Folios from 17th-century printshops to Sotheby's auction room, watching as copies slip through the fingers of robber barons and rare books librarians alike. Scholars have long known the riches to be sought in the material history of books; in the story of the early editions of Shakespeare's works, Collins finds dukedom large enough for the general reader as well. --Matthew Battles

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781596911956
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
  • Publication date: 7/7/2009
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 835,311
  • Product dimensions: 5.72 (w) x 8.56 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Paul Collins is the author of The Trouble with Tom, Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism, Sixpence House, and Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck. He edits the Collins Library for McSweeney's Books, and his work has appeared in McSweeney's, Lingua Franca, Cabinet, and Business 2.0.

Table of Contents

Act I

Scene i New Bond Street, London 3

Scene ii Barbican and Aldersgate, London 9

Scene iii St. Paul's Churchyard, London 19

Scene iv New Bond Street, London 33

Act II

Scene i Hampstead Heath, London 59

Scene ii Catherine Street, London 72

Scene iii 17 Gough Square, London 89

Scene iv Staple Inn, High Holborn, London 102

Act III

Scene i Charing Cross, London 115

Scene ii High Halden, Kent 122

Scene iii Kensal Green Cemetery, London 132

Act IV

Scene i East Capitol Street, Washington, D.C. 147

Scene ii Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. 157

Scene iii Level C, Folger Shakespeare Library 169

Act V

Scene i The Globe Theatre, Shin-Okubo, Shinjuku Ward 181

Scene ii Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo 187

Scene iii Meisei University, Hino, Tokyo 200

Scene iv Shinjuku Metro Promenade, Tokyo 215

Further Readings 221

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