{"id":44743,"date":"2016-04-13T08:19:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T18:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=44743"},"modified":"2019-01-29T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T02:33:10","slug":"shakespeare-celebrated-at-first-folio-exhibit-at-kapiolani-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/13\/shakespeare-celebrated-at-first-folio-exhibit-at-kapiolani-cc\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare celebrated at First Folio exhibit at Kapi\u02bbolani CC<\/abbr>"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Kapiʻolani<\/span> Community College<\/a> has been selected as the host site in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> for First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare<\/a>, a national traveling exhibition of one of the world’s most treasured books. The Folger Shakespeare Library<\/a>, in partnership with Cincinnati Museum Center<\/a> and the American Library Association<\/a>, is touring the First Folio to all 50 states, Washington, D.C.<\/abbr> and Puerto Rico to commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death.<\/p>\n

Published seven years after his death in 1616, this monumental volume was assembled from plays owned by the company of actors Shakespeare worked with, especially two of his friends, and printed in his memory. Of the 233 copies of the First Folio that survive today, 82 are in the Folger Library in Washington, D.C.<\/abbr> One of those rare volumes will be arriving this April at Kapiʻolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n