Shakespeare First Folio discovered on Scottish island

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A copy of Shakespeare's First Folio, one of the most sought-after books in the world, has been discovered in a stately home on a Scottish island.

This copy of the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623, was found at Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute.
Academics who authenticated the book called it a rare and significant find.

About 230 copies of the First Folio are known to exist. A copy owned by Oxford University sold for £3.5m in 2003.

Emma Smith, professor of Shakespeare studies at Oxford University, said her first reaction on being told the stately home was claiming to have an original First Folio was: "Like hell they have."

But when she inspected the three-volume book she found it was authentic.

"We've found a First Folio that we didn't know existed," said Prof Smith.

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Shakespeare First Folio discovered on Scottish island - BBC News


digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays

The Bodleian First Folio

 
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The Isle of Bute (human population around 6,500 with a fair few sheep, too) seems a strange place to find a copy of Shakespeare's First Folio. Most Scots are barbaric and uncultured and can't even read.

Incidentally, Bute is where the Scottish Government is putting many of the Syrian "refugees". It'll soon be renamed the Isle of Butistan.
 
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Blackleaf said:
The Isle of Bute (human population around 6,500 with a fair few sheep, too) seems a strange place to find a copy of Shakespeare's First Folio. Most Scots are barbaric and uncultured and can't even read.

Incidentally, Bute is where the Scottish Government is putting many of the Syrian "refugees". It'll soon be renamed the Isle of Butistan.
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Just watch some Englishman steal it, now.
 
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They should burn it.

Normally, I'm all for the preservation of history, but there are two strikes against Shakespeare and his work. The first, he was British. The second, nothing that long winded and obnoxious should be allowed to fester. 99.9% of schoolchildren cannot be wrong.

Just think back to your school days. The endless hours of listening and/or reading his unintelligible tripe, created to torture young people from grade school to university.

We try our damnedest to eliminate diseases like smallpox. We should be doing the same to eliminate Shakespeare's writings.
 
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Murphy said:
The first, he was British.
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Only geographically, in terms of the island of Great Britain. Not politically. The nation state of Great Britain didn't come around until nearly a hundred years after his death.

Murphy said:
Just think back to your school days. The endless hours of listening and/or reading his unintelligible tripe, created to torture young people from grade school to university.
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I used to love doing Shakespeare at school. I remember enjoying reading, as part of Mrs Slingsby's English class, A Midsummer Night's Dream at secondary school.
 
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A London cab driver's answer to a request from a Muslim to turn off the radio. (This actually happened).



A devout Arab Muslim entered a black cab in London. He curtly asked the cabbie to turn off the radio because, as decreed by his religious teaching, he must not listen to music because in the time of the prophet there was no music, especially Western music, which is the music of the infidel.

The cab driver politely switched off the radio, stopped the cab and opened the door.

The Arab Muslim asked him, "What are you doing?"

The cabbie answered, "In the time of the prophet there were no taxis. So piss off and wait for a camel..."
 
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