Shakespeare plays to be digitised and published online

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A joint initiative by The Bodleian Library in Oxford and Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC will see all 75 editions of William Shakespeare’s plays printed before 1641 digitised and made available online.

Previously only available to scholars, these quartos — early printed editions of Shakespeare’s plays — provide evidence of what he actually wrote and what appeared on the early English stage, where original manuscripts haven’t survived…