The rare edition of Shakespeare’s plays recently found in a French public library will go on show at the Globe theatre next year
The actor Mark Rylance reverently touched a battered, grubby, scribbled copy of one of the rarest books in the world with the tip of one finger, and declared it “magical”. The first folio of the plays of William Shakespeare, found in a public library in northern France last year, will go on display at the Globe theatre in London for two months in 2016, in a season marking the 400th anniversary of the death of the playwright.
“It is my favourite book in the world,” Rylance added.
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