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The Second Folio is the 1632 edition of the collected plays of William Shakespeare. It follows the First Folio of 1623. Much language was updated in the Second Folio and there are almost 1,700 changes.
The text of the second folio follows that of the first, with some corrections. This copy was bequeathed to the Public Library of N.S.W. by Miss Essie Jenyns in 1921.
Time's Pencil offers a history of how Shakespeare's works changed in content and use after the publication of his First Folio in 1623. Visitors can look at primary sources from the 16th through 21st centuries to learn about how historical and literary changes led to waves of rewriting of Shakespearean texts and produced radically different ...
The Second Folio contains John Milton’s first appearance in print, his anonymous epitaph to Shakespeare in 16 verses: “What neede my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones.” It appears on the same page as the eight-line “Upon the Effigies” (leaf A5r), which is conjugate to the title page (leaf A2r).
4 gru 2020 · The Folger Shakespeare Library, famous for its collection of 82 First Folios, also owns 58 copies of the Second Folio. But what is a folio and what makes it so special? Folios are large books comprised of pages that have only been folded once before being gathered into quires (four sheets of paper folded to form eight leaves) that are then ...
12 lut 2008 · The Second Folio was a carefully corrected page-for-page reprint of the first that made hundreds of minor changes in the text, the majority of which have been accepted by modern editors. The preliminaries of the Second Folio include John Milton's first published poem, 'An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare'.
The Second Folio of Shakespeare’s collected plays. The second edition, first issue, of the most important work in the English language, containing for the first time Milton's anonymous epitaph to Shakespeare, the first of Milton’s English-language poems ever to appear in print.
