THE Bodleian Library in Oxford has linked up with the National Library of Singapore to display a copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio in Singapore.
The display will run until April 23 in Singapore’s National Library Building.
It also formed part of this year’s Oxford University Alumni Weekend in Asia, which took place at the weekend.
The showcase, entitled Shakespeare in Print: The First Folio, gives residents and visitors of Singapore a chance to see a copy of the work for the first time.
The First Folio is the first printed anthology consisting of 36 of Shakespeare’s plays, many of which had never been printed before it was published as a folio in 1623.
The display is helping visitors learn more about Shakespeare’s life and times as well as the significance of the First Folio as a literary artefact.
Bodley’s Librarian Richard Ovenden and the English department’s Prof Rhodri Lewis gave a talk on the history of the Bodleian’s two copies of the First Folio.
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