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Celebrating Shakespeare’s First Folio

Students performed scenes from the Bard’s plays at the Penn Libraries to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of ‘Comedies, Histories & Tragedies.’ 
A Shakespeare First Folio dated 1623 open to the title page
Four Shakespeare folios printed in the 17th century were on view during the Penn Libraries First Folio Day, including a first edition printed in London in 1623. 

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