Libraries to create Shakespeare web resource

The Bodleian Library in Oxford and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC are to put all 75 editions of William Shakespeare’s plays from before 1641 online… The project is intended to give the public greater acccess to the plays and downloading of the quartos will begin next month…Online users will be able to compare and study the texts, which are the earliest sources for the 37 plays Shakespeare is known to have written.

Source: RTE.ie

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