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Stanley Wells
The First Folio: Where Would We Be Without It?
Hay Festival 2000,
The First Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623, is one of the most valuable, in all senses of the word, and important documents of Western civilsation. The pre-eminent Shakespeare scholar will discuss the impact it has had on our perception of its author