This private collection is currently on loan to the University. It is available upon request to students, researchers, and the public.
To request materials contact Kirstin Kay, Archivist, at kay@library.umass.edu (413.545.6843) or Jeff Goodhind, Librarian, Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, at jgoodhind@umass.edu
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Contact: Marjorie Rubright, Director, Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, at mrubright@mass.edu
1. A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible. Mainz. 1450-1455.
2. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales: the Tale of Melibee. Single leaf. Westminster: William Caxton. 1476.
3. Holinshed, Raphael. The First and Second [and Third] volumes of Chronicles Now newly augmented and continued to the year 1586. London. 1587.
First Folio Materials #4-29
4. Shakespeare. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
5. Shakespeare. Julius Caesar. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
6. Shakespeare. Measure, for Measure. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
7. Shakespeare. The Tragedie of Coriolanus. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
8. Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
9. Shakespeare. Love’s Labour's Lost. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
10. Shakespeare. Richard III. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
11. Shakespeare. The First Part of Henry the Fourth. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
12. Shakespeare. King John. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
13. Shakespeare. The Second Part of Henry the Fourth. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
14. Shakespeare. The Comedie of Errors. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
15. Shakespeare. The Winter’s Tale. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
16. Shakespeare. King Lear. Six leaves from the First Folio. Pages 287/288, 291-296, 303-306. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
17. Shakespeare. The Tragedie of Macbeth. Leaf from the First Folio. Page 143/144. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
18. Shakespeare. The Tragedie of Macbeth. Leaf from the First Folio. Pages 147/148. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
19. Shakespeare. The Tragedie of Macbeth. Leaf from the First Folio. Pages: 131. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
20. Shakespeare. All's Well That Ends Well. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
21. Shakespeare. Henry V. Eight leaves from the First Folio. Pages 69-82, 93/94. London: Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount. 1623.
22. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night. Fives leaves from the First Folio. Pages 55-64. London: Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount. 1623.
23. Shakespeare. Cymbeline. One Folio sheet and seven leaves from the First Folio. Pages: 369-372, 377-378, 385-394, 397-398. London: Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount. 1623.
24. Shakespeare. Cymbeline. One Folio sheet and seven leaves from the First Folio. Pages: 369-372, 377-378, 385-394, 397-398. London: Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount. 1623.
25. Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet. Eighteen leaves from the First Folio. Pages: 53-56, 61-72, 79. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
26. Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet. Eighteen leaves from the First Folio. Pages: 53-56, 61-72, 79. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
27. Shakespeare. Timon of Athens. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
28. Shakespeare. Henry VIII. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
29. Shakespeare. Richard II. Two leaves from the First Folio. Pages 23/24, 37/38. London: Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount. 1623.
30. Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Extracted from The First Folio. Complete. London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount. 1623.
31. Shakespeare. The Second Folio. London. 1632.
32. Shakespeare. The Second Folio. London. 1632.
33. Shakespeare. Pericles. London. 1635.
34. Shakespeare. First Edition of Shakespeare's Collected Poems. London. 1640.
35. More, Sir Thomas. The Historie of the Pitifull Life, and unfortunate Death of Edward the fifth. London. 1641.
36. Shakespeare. Third Folio. London. 1663.
37. Shakespeare. Macbeth. London. 1674.
38. Shakespeare. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. London. 1676.
39. Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida, or, Truth Found too Late. London. 1679.
40. Shakespeare. Othello, Richard II and King Lear. London. 1681.
41. Shakespeare. Othello, The Moor of Venice. London. 1681.
42. Shakespeare. I Henry VI. Adaptation by John Crowne. Bound with the Murder of Humphrey Duke of Glocester. London. 1681.
43. Shakespeare. Coriolanus. Adaptation by Nahun Tate. 1682.
44. Shakespeare. The Fourth Folio. London. 1685.
45. Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus, or The Rape of Lavinia. London. 1687.
46. Shakespeare. The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island. London. 1690.
47. Shakespeare. Julius Caesar. London. 1691.
48. Rymer, Thomas. A Short View of Tragedy With Some Reflections on Shakespear [sic], and other Practitioners for the Stage. London. 1693.
49. Otway, Thomas. The History and Fall of Caius Marius. A Tragedy. Restoration adaptation of Romeo & Juliet. London. 1703.
50. Shakespeare. The Works of Mr. William Shakespear. Edited By Nicolas Rowe. London. 1709.
51. Shakespeare. K. Henry IV with the humours of Sr. John Falstaff. London. 1721.
52. Shakespeare. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. London. 1723.
53. Shakespeare. Macbeth. London. 1729.
54. Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra. London. 1734.
55. Shakespeare. The Life and Death of King Lear. London. 1734.
56. Shakespeare. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. London. 1734.
57. Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet. London. 1734.
58. Shakespeare. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. London. 1761.
59. Shakespeare. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Boston. 1794.
60. Theater broadside advertising a production of Macbeth with John Wilkes Boothe. 1863
61. Shakespeare. Macbeth. Annotated by Sir Henry Irving. Oxford. 1873.
62. Shakespeare. Hamlet. Annotated by Sir Henry Irving. Oxford. 1873.
63. Complete MGM Screenplay for Romeo and Juliet. 1935.
64. Welles, Orson and Roger Hill. Everybody's Shakespeare: Three Plays Edited for Reading and Arranged for Staging. Woodstock. 1938.
65. Welles, Orson. 50 Vintage Original B&W Stills from his 1948 Production of Macbeth (1915-1985).