Shakespeare Portrait

The Bodleian First Folio

A digital facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Bodleian Arch. G c.7.



Welcome to the digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7. This has been made possible by the generous support of the donors to the Sprint for Shakespeare public campaign (August to December 2012). We are grateful to them all, and hope that you will enjoy becoming part of the story of the First Folio.


Find out more about this book's remarkable history, the campaign, and the work that led to its digitization.



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  • Digital Text

    Digital text
    Read the plays as they're published one by one!

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Where next?

Read the catalogue record for this book, and the other Oxford copies of Shakespeare's First Folio.

The digital facsimile and the text are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

To share your thoughts and ideas about this digital facsimile, or to write a guest blog post, get in touch with us: shakespeare@bodleian.ox.ac.uk