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Today we share the story of how the Bodleian received, lost, and regained our very own copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio (which you can view at #DigitalBodleian)

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We first got our mitts on this copy in 1623 – seven years after the world became bereft of the be-ruffed bard.

Published by #Shakespeare’s pals and peers, the First Folio preserved treasures such as Twelfth Night, The Tempest and Macbeth - which may otherwise have been lost.
Despite the Bodleian Library not accepting plays at the time (fearing that pamphlets and dramas might bring down the reputation of the library) the importance of the First Folio must have been recognized. It was chained up in Duke Humfrey’s Library, and made available to readers.
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He's the reason I went to study literature.I studied him not for marks but for life.I learnt life through his words, never stopped wondering about his genius in understanding & dissecting human emotions & motives.He gave me a perspective of life that even I can't decode at times. Image
To live like Shakespeare, still influencing millions around the world with his ideas & thoughts, that doesn't happen just like that. It took a life time of expressing the genius that he possessed & how he did that in his times count. He's one of a kind.
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Wrote this poem for him last year ✍️💕
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