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WHAT:
The First Folio exhibition panels and rotating Shakespeare and renaissance special collections are on display through April 3 at Wayne State University’s Library System in the David Adamany Undergraduate Library atrium. 

The exhibit is open to the public and is free to view.

WHEN:
Now through Sunday, April 3, 2016
Available for viewing during open library hours. See library.wayne.edu for complete schedule.

WHERE:
David Adamany Undergraduate Library, 5155 Gullen Mall, Detroit.

MORE INFO: Shakespeare First Folio
The Shakespeare First Folio is considered one of the world’s most influential books. First published in 1623, a copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio sold at auction in 2006 for $5.2 million. Only 244 copies exist. 

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the Folger Library in Washington, D.C., has been circulating 18 of its 82 copies to one site in each state. Wayne State University, in collaboration with the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Detroit Public Library, was selected to host the First Folio in Michigan. Wayne State University hosts the exhibition panels while the First Folio is on display at the DIA.

The First Folio includes 36 Shakespeare plays, 18 of which had never been printed before. Without the First Folio, all of those plays — including Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, As You Like It and more — might have been lost forever. Compiled by two of his friends and fellow theater colleagues, the First Folio was published seven years after Shakespeare’s death in 1616.

MEDIA:
Media interested in viewing the exhibit and speaking with experts, may contact: 
Tom Reynolds, 313-577-9093, treynolds@wayne.edu
Jill Wurm, 313-577-4149, ae0831@wayne.edu. 

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