Brief Chronicles Vol. 8: The First Folio—A Shakespearean Enigma Paperback – August 20, 2023

This comprehensive new volume in the Brief Chronicle series brings together exciting new research on the venerable First Folio, along with in-depth articles on the subject from other journals. Discover Shakespeare as you never knew him thru this fascinating compilation of research on the first publication of Shakespeare’s plays.Brief Chronicles is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal dedicated to examining the Shakespeare authorship question and more generally topics in early modern authorship studies from the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship.Volume 8 of Brief Chronicles covers the topic of the First Folio and features the following articles: “The Book that Shakespeare Gave Us or ‘The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare?’ ” by Shelly Maycock; “First Folio Fraud” by Katherine Chiljan; “Production of the First Folio Reconsidered” by Gabriel Ready; “ ‘Bestow How, and When you List…’: The de Veres and the 1623 Shakespeare Folio” by Roger Stritmatter; “Ben Jonson’s “Small Latine and Lesse Greeke” Anatomy of a Misquotation (Part 1)” by R. Stritmatter; “ ‘The Knotty Wrong-Side’: Another Spanish Connection to the First Folio” by Gabriel Ready; “What Role Did the Herbert Family Play in the Shakespeare Cover-Up?” by Bruce Johnston; “Shakespeare’s Son on Death Row” by Bill Boyle; “The First Folio Paratexts” by R. Stritmatter; “ ‘Look Not on This Picture’: Ambiguity in the Shakespeare First Folio” by Richard F. Whalen; “Shakespeare’s Impossible Doublet: Droeshout’s Engraving Anatomized” by John Rollet; “Caleygreyhounds and the First Folios of Jonson and Shakespeare” by Michael Hyde; “Ben Jonson’s “Small Latine & Less Greeke”: Anatomy of a Misquotation, Pt 2” by R. Stritmatter; “Jonson’s Sweet Swan of Avon” by Alexander Waugh; “ ‘Publish We This Peace…’: A Note on the Design of the Shakespeare First Folio and the Spanish Marriage Crisis” by R. Stritmatter; “One Pretty Secret: Gervase Markham Reveals Shakespeare’s Identity” by Heidi Jannsch; “Gervase Markham’s Honour in his Perfection (1624), Matthew 6:1-4, & the Authorship Question” by R. Stritmatter; “A Vere of “Great Vertue” Wrote the Shakespeare Plays” by Katherine Chiljan; “Why is the First Folio Missing from Lady Anne’s Bookshelf?” by Bonner Cutting; “History of Fixing: On the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio” by Gabriel Ready; “Looking Not on His Picture, but His Books: Two New Histories of Folger’s Quest for First Folios Shed Unintended Light on the Authorship Question” by Michael Dudley; “Puzzling Shakesperotics: A Review-Essay of Leah Marcus, Puzzling Shakespeare” by R. Stritmatter; “Shakespeare’s Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare” by Gabriel Ready. Read more