{"id":1141,"date":"2023-11-02T06:44:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T06:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2023-11-02T14:15:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:15:25","slug":"celebrating-four-hundred-years-of-shakespeares-first-folio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2023\/11\/02\/celebrating-four-hundred-years-of-shakespeares-first-folio\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Four Hundred Years of Shakespeare&#8217;s First Folio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the quatercentenary of the publication of what is now known as the First Folio of William Shakespeare\u2019s <em>Comedies, Histories, &amp; Tragedies<\/em>. More precisely, the first copies of this volume of plays was issued from the Jaggard printshop,<em>\u00a0c<\/em>. November 1623. One of the many research strengths of MEMS lies in Shakespeare studies, and our Co-Director, Dr Rory Loughnane is integrally involved in the celebrations of the First Folio quatercentenary.<\/p>\n<p>Rory has co-edited with Prof. <span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Sonia Massai of La Sapienza, Rome and King&#8217;s London, <\/span>a new collection of essays that reflects upon the significance of the First Folio\u2019s publication. The collection of essays is published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iasems.org\/\">Italian Association of Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies<\/a>. To coincide with this, the four Folios of Shakespeare\u2019s plays published in the seventeenth century (1623, 1632, 1663, 1685) will be put on display in a special exhibition at Senate House, London. Following the exhibition, there will be a launch for the new special issue and a roundtable discussion involving international Shakespeare scholars who have contributed to the collection.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.ac.uk\/events\/folio-400-book-launch-and-retrospective-anniversary-year\">booking is available<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the quatercentenary of the publication of what is now known as the First Folio of William Shakespeare\u2019s Comedies, Histories, &amp; Tragedies. More &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2023\/11\/02\/celebrating-four-hundred-years-of-shakespeares-first-folio\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81001,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70],"tags":[642,251204,172187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}