![]() ![]() The facsimile title page exactly reproduces the title page of the Second Folio copy from which this play came. " Twelfth Night… seems to me the funniest of Shakespeare's plays…a highly deliberate outrage" (Harold Bloom). Of the Bard's late comedies, "the latest, Twelfth Night, is the most perfect" (Baugh et al., 526). It is estimated that no more than 1000 copies of the Second Folio were printed. Jackson, Pforzheimer Catalogue).Ī new group of investors published the Second Folio collection of Shakespeare's plays, which, with some changes (intentional and otherwise), largely reprinted the First Folio (1623) page for page. "The folios are incomparably the most important work in the English language" (W.A. The Second Folio, like the First Folio of 1623, contains 36 plays, all the plays that are considered to be wholly or in part by Shakespeare (with the exception of Pericles, which was added to the Third Folio edition of 1663). These were the only collected editions printed in the 17th century (a 1619 attempt at a collected edition in quarto form was never completed). The four folios of Shakespeare are the first four editions of Shakespeare's collected plays. ![]() Folio (9 by 12-3/4 inches), period-style three-quarter calf gilt, red morocco spine labels, marbled boards.Įleven original leaves from the Second Folio, containing Twelfth Night, handsomely bound. "BE NOT AFRAID OF GREATNESS": SHAKESPEARE'S TWELFTH NIGHT, EXTRACTED FROM THE SECOND FOLIO, 1632 ![]()
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