FIRST FOLIO
The Book that Gave us Shakespeare
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ShakesBEER Downtown
Saturday, March 5, the Downtown Bryan
Association, in partnership with the Academy
of Performing and Visual Arts at Texas A&M
University and the New York Shakespeare
Exchange, will host the first ever ShakesBEER
Pub Crawl outside of New York City.
“Our goal is to show people that
Shakespeare isn’t an archaic form of literature
that doesn’t apply today,” says Downtown
Bryan Association Program Manager Amanda
Reynolds. “We are putting Shakespeare
scenes into contemporary situations that
everyone can appreciate. We hope that by
attending the ShakesBEER pub crawl, people
will fall in love with Shakespeare all over
again and take advantage to see the First
Folio while it is here in town because it truly
is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
Tickets are limited and purchasers will
visit five bars, have five drinks, and enjoy five
live Shakespeare performances. The evening
will conclude with excerpts from the Sonnet
Project, which features Shakespeare’s
sonnets filmed in contemporary New York
City as well as the premiere of a sonnet
filmed in Bryan.
For
more
information,
visit
downtownbryan.com.
SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST FOLIOS. COURTESY OF FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY
T
exas A&M University will host
William Shakespeare’s First
Folio from March 8 through April
3. The folio will be on display in
the J. Wayne Stark Galleries in
the Memorial Student Center.
First Folio! The Book that
Gave Us Shakespeare is a
national traveling exhibition of
the Shakespeare First Folio, 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 of Shakespeare in 2016 to
all 50 states, Washington, D.C.
and Puerto Rico.
To commemorate the First
Folio exhibit, Texas A&M will
be hosting a series of events
centered on the rich history of
the folio and the man behind it.
Laura Estill of Texas A&M will
be giving the opening lecture.
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Visiting experts Douglass S.
Bruster from The University
of Texas at Austin and James
S. Shapiro from Columbia
University will also be lecturing
on the history of Shakespeare
and the First Folio.
Aimed toward teachers
and students across the state,
Texas A&M will also be hosting
several workshops to engage
more students in learning about
the folio and Shakespeare’s
works. Teachers will be able to
register for events in which they
will learn hands-on techniques
to engage their students in
the rich text of Shakespeare’s
plays. There will also be an
opportunity for teachers to
bring their classes to participate
in The EmilyAnn Theatre’s
“Shakesperience” program
aimed at immersing the
students in Shakespeare’s work.
Celebrating the history of the
First Folio further, the Within
the Book and Volume: Early
Modern English Literature at
Texas A&M exhibit will start
at Cushing Memorial Library
& Archives in February. The
exhibit will showcase materials
from the same time period as
the First Folio and focus on the
intellectual developments and
the physical process behind
bookmaking in the 16th and
17th centuries. A Book History
Workshop will be offered by
Cushing to give the public a
hands-on experience of printing
Shakespeare on March 15.
Live performances have also
been planned, which include
adaptations of “Hamlet” and
“A Midsumme