{"id":2898,"date":"2016-05-02T11:51:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2016-05-02T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T17:01:06","slug":"shakespeare-at-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/2016\/05\/02\/shakespeare-at-400\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare at 400"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Portrait<\/a>Four hundred years ago tomorrow, William Shakespeare’s life was over and the story of his cultural legacy began. At what a legacy it has been!<\/p>\n

There are countless\u00a0adaptations of his work, in every artistic\u00a0medium we’ve come up with over the years. His stories have also inspired new works, often from something as simple as a turn of phrase. Whether you look to the page, the canvas, the stage, or the screen, Shakespeare is bound to be\u00a0there.<\/p>\n

In this post, we share some of the many published versions of Shakespeare’s works — particularly his nearly 40 plays — which we have at Hoole, dating from the late\u00a016th century to the late 20th century. Click on any image below to see a larger version, or come by to see\u00a0the item in person.<\/p>\n

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16th-18th century<\/h2>\n

While we don’t have any Renaissance-era copies of Shakespeare’s plays, we do have facsimile reproductions of a few of his plays, including this copy of the 1597 edition of Romeo and Juliet<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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