Shakespeare For All Time celebrates the tremendous influence of William Shakespeare on the modern world. The title for this exhibition comes from Ben Jonson’s dedication in the First Folio, in which he wrote of his fellow playwright: “He was not of an age, but for all time.” This exhibition features the Rare Book Department’s copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio—one of the rarest books in existence and on display at the Library for the first time in three decades—as well as the Second, Third, and Fourth folios. It also includes rare editions of his plays, many beautifully illustrated, over the course of four centuries along with objects borrowed from The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation, such as an early edition of Macbeth. Shakespeare For All Time is presented as part of the Free Library’s Year of the Bard: Shakespeare at 450.