{"id":933,"date":"2016-01-05T05:37:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T21:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/the-first-printed-copy-of-shakespeares-plays-is-going-on-tour\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T05:37:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T21:37:27","slug":"the-first-printed-copy-of-shakespeares-plays-is-going-on-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/the-first-printed-copy-of-shakespeares-plays-is-going-on-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"The first printed copy of Shakespeare&#039;s plays is going on tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Billy\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzA0Lzg5L2JpbGx5LjdhMWRmLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/4a67cce6\/bb0\/billy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=The+first+printed+copy+of+Shakespeare%27s+plays+is+going+on+tour&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F04%2Fshakespeare-first-folio%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F04%2Fshakespeare-first-folio%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>He may have written that &#8220;brevity is the soul of wit,&#8221; but William Shakespeare penned a pretty hefty canon \u2014 38 plays, plus hundreds of sonnets<\/p>\n<p>And now, in honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare&#8217;s death, the first printed collection of his plays is embarking on a tour of the United States.  <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/11\/17\/shakespeare-cocktail-recipes\/\">Shakespeare cocktails are nerdy treats for your next book club<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.folger.edu\/about-the-first-folio-tour\">The First Folio<\/a>, housed by The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, will hit all 50 states over the next year, giving fans and scholars alike the chance to see what Folger director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/04\/461601333\/400-years-after-death-shakespeares-first-folio-goes-out-on-tour?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=books\">Michael Witmore calls<\/a> &#8220;[the] one book to represent Shakespeare&#8221; in the flesh. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/04\/shakespeare-first-folio\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/books\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Books<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/shakespeare\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Shakespeare<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/theater\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Theater<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/plays\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Plays<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/JtfuZLtdugw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He may have written that &#8220;brevity is the soul of wit,&#8221; but William Shakespeare penned a pretty hefty canon \u2014 38 plays, plus hundreds of sonnets And now, in honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare&#8217;s death, the first printed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/the-first-printed-copy-of-shakespeares-plays-is-going-on-tour\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,79,1,448,446,447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-entertainment","category-other","category-plays","category-shakespeare","category-theater"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}