First Folio Opening Reception
Thursday, September 1, 2016
04:30 PM – 06:30 PM
Free Event
Museum Exhibition: FIRST FOLIO, The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare
Exhibition runs from September 1 through September 25.
The “FIRST FOLIO The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare” exhibition is on Tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night. These famous plays and 15 others by Shakespeare would probably have been lost to us without the First Folio. Published in 1623, the First Folio is the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays; only 233 copies are known today. This year, to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the Folger Shakespeare Library is sending a First Folio to every state in the United States. The William Benton Museum of Art has been selected to exhibit a First Folio for Connecticut. For more information about the First Folio and all related programming, visit http://shakespeare.uconn.edu
First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library, is a national traveling exhibition organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, and produced in association with the American Library Association and the Cincinnati Museum Center. First Folio! has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor, and by the support of Google.org, Vinton and Sigrid Cerf, The British Council, and other generous donors. (shakespeare.uconn.edu)
THE WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM OF ART
University of Connecticut
School of Fine Arts
245 Glenbrook Road
Storrs, CT
www.benton.uconn.edu
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For more information, contact: The Benton at 860-486-4520