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March 31, 2008

Shakespeare Goes Digital

Earliest printed versions of the Bard's plays to go online

LONDON - A U.S. and British library plan to reproduce online all 75 editions of William Shakespeare's plays printed in the quarto format before the year 1641.

The Bodleian Library in Oxford and Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC have joined forces to download their collections, building on the work of the British Library which digitized its collection of quarto editions in 2004.

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Posted by jgreen at March 31, 2008 08:47 AM