First folio found in France to visit Shakespeare' Globe

February 24, 2015 23:58

A rare first edition of William Shakespeare's plays is to go on display in the Bard's spiritual home, just a few hundred yards (meters) from where it was printed in 1623.

Shakespeare's Globe says a First Folio discovered last year in a library in Saint-Omer, France, will be displayed at the London theater for two months from July 2016.

Actor Mark Rylance said Monday that he's delighted "my favorite book in the world" is coming to the recreated Elizabethan playhouse. The theater lies across the River Thames from the site of London's 17th-century printing houses near St. Paul's Cathedral.

About 750 copies of Shakespeare's collected plays were printed seven years after the playwright died. Some 230 copies are known to survive, including the book found among belongings from a now-defunct Jesuit college in Saint-Omer, near Calais.

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