Document Type
Lecture
Publication Date
9-22-2016
Abstract
William Shakespeare wrote his plays for box-office profits at the theater, not for a reading public. When his old colleagues John Hemings and Henry Condell published his plays seven years after his death, they too were looking for financial profit and "packaged" the dramas -- as well as the dramatist himself -- to boost income by appealing to a new market of readers, thus making Shakespeare the subject of literary studies ever since.
Keywords
Plays (Shakespeare; William); Shakespeare; William; 1564-1616
Disciplines
Literature in English, British Isles
File Format
video/mp4
Repository Citation
Bowers, J. M.
(2016).
"Bring Out Your Dead!": Cashing in on Shakespeare in the First Folio.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/special_collections_events/8
Comments
The video may be viewed on youtube.com or by download. The downloadable .mp4 file is 431 MB. This public lecture was delivered in the Lied Library on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as part of a series offered in conjunction with the University Libraries Special Collections First Folio exhibit. From September 1-29, 2016, Special Collections exhibited an original 1623 First Folio from the Folger Shakespeare Library as part of First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare. This first-ever national tour of one of the world’s most influential books celebrated 400 years of Shakespeare and his legacy. Special Collections in the Lied Library was the only location in Nevada for the First Folio! National tour.