Shakespeare in Community: The Printing of Shakespeare
Channel: Jesse Stommel
Date: 03/05/2015

The course launches April 26, 2015. Register at http://www.coursera.org/course/virtualshakespeare

This video examines the ways the text of Shakespeare's plays actually gets put into lead type and then onto paper, to form the book in quarto or folio format. We are able to see some examples of actual rare books by Shakespeare, copies held in the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC!

Director, Editor, Producer: Jesse Stommel
Producer, Assistant Editor: Catherine DeRose
Producer: Sarah Marty
Producer: R L Widmann
Graphic Designer: Mark Neufeld
Music: Folger Consort