Shakespeare’s First Folio 1623-2023

Matthias Bauer is Professor of English Philology at the University of Tübingen, Germany and specializes in early modern literature, with a particular focus on Shakespeare and Metaphysical Poetry. With Angelika Zirker he co-chairs a project, funded by the German National Research Foundation, on 'Co-Creativity in Early Modern English Literature.' Angelika Zirker is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Her publications include William Shakespeare and John Donne: Stages of the Soul in Early Modern English Poetry (2019), and she is the co-editor, with Matthias Bauer, of Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate.

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A Note on Texts

‘To Think These Trifles Some-Thing’: Introduction, Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker (University of Tübingen, Germany)

1. Alternative Collections: Shakespeare Beyond the First Folio, Ben Higgins (University of Oxford, UK)

2. ‘All His Comedies, Histories and Tragedies’: The (In)complete Works of Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan (Yale University, USA)

3. First Folio Blunders in Picture, Poems and Plays, Tiffany Stern (University of Birmingham, UK)

4. The First Folio as a Sacred Text, Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker (University of Tübingen, Germany)

5. ‘The Famous Scenicke Poet’: Ben Jonson, Hugh Holland and Poetic Identity in the First Folio, Tom Cook (University of Birmingham, UK)

6. ‘The Folio of This World’: Creation and Literary Heritage in Ulysses, Claudia Olk (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)

7. The First Folio in Spain: The Gondomar Case, Jennifer Ruiz-Morgan (University of Extremadura, Spain)

8. On the Meisei First Folios, Noriko Sumimoto (Meisei University, Japan)

9. To Particularize Their Abundance: The Folger First Folios Studied and Shared as a Collection, Greg Prickman (Folger Shakespeare Library, USA)

10. Afterword, Emma Smith (University of Oxford, UK)

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