400 Years of the First Folio: Part 2 Creating the Folio

<p>As my own small contribution to the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the printing of the first folio of Shakespeare's plays in this second episode of a short mini-series I look at the inspiration and motivations for the First Folio and how it was produced</p><p>What prompted the creator to produce the First Folio?</p><p>Ben Johnson’s First Folio</p><p>John Hemenge – Actor and Administrator</p><p>Henry Condell – Actor and friend of Shakespeare</p><p>Richard Burbage – Just a brief sketch</p><p>How the plays existed in print and manuscript and how they were collected</p><p>Financing the project</p><p>Edward Blunt, Bookseller and his previous work with Shakespeare’s plays</p><p>Willian Jaggard, printer and his previous work with Shakespeare’s plays and poems</p><p>Isacc Jaggard and his workshop</p><p>The printing method</p><p>Apprentices and printing errors</p><p>Decretive woodblocks</p><p>The engraved portrait</p><p><br></p><p>Support the podcast at:</p><p>www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.com</p><p>www.ko-fi.com/thoetp</p><p>www.patreon.com/thoetpThe First Folio 2: Creation of the Folio</p><p><br></p><br/><br/>This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: <br/><br/>Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy