Presenting Shakespeare: Posters from Around the World
October 14–December 11, 2016 | Pleasant T. Rowland Galleries
In compiling the first-ever curated collection of international Shakespearean theatrical posters, Mirko Ilic and
Steven Heller—with help from Dydo Poster Collection—assembled around 1,500 examples. Their 2015 book,
Presenting Shakespeare, includes 1,100 “historically significant, aesthetically desirable, and conceptually intelligent
[posters] produced over nearly two centuries, in many countries and by varied artist, designers and illustrators.”
Presenting Shakespeare: Posters from Around the World is a selection of these posters, chosen to accompany
the Wisconsin showing of the Folger Library’s First Folio!: The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare at the Chazen.
Teatr Clipperton, Poland, 2004, designer: Michal Ksiazek (Dydo Poster Collection)
First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare
November 3–December 11, 2016 | Leslie and Johanna Garfield Galleries
UW–Madison was selected as the host site in Wisconsin for First Folio! The Book that Gave Us
Shakespeare, on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library, one of the world’s most treasured books.
The Folger Shakespeare Library, in partnership with Cincinnati Museum Center and the American
Library Association, is touring a First Folio to all fifty states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico in 2016.
The Chazen Museum of Art and the UW–Madison Libraries partnered to bring this icon to Wisconsin.
The First Folio, published in 1623, is the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, many of which
were not published during his lifetime. Two of Shakespeare’s fellow actors compiled thirty-six of his
plays to preserve them for future generations.
Title page with Droeshout engraving of Shakespeare, Shakespeare First Folio, 1623.
Folger Shakespeare Library.