Shakespeare for the Sneaky

What we are doing, creating the byproducts of a "lost" Shakespeare play to indicate the existence of a non-existing phenomenon is clever. And the way we are exhibiting our newly acquired Shakespeare knowledge in the process is also clever. So when I think of our project, I think it's clever. When I think of clever I think tricky. When I think tricky I think sneaky. Hence the title of this blog post. I refuse to abandon the theme!

First Folio Research:

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/landprint/shakespeare/index.html

• The First Folio is the collection of Shakespeare's plays
• Published in 1623, 7 years after Shakespeare's death
• Compiled by his friens John Heminge and Henry Condell, who had access to hand manuscript and stage prompt notes, making this by far the most legit version of any of Shakespeare's works.
• Published by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount.
• Definition of a Folio--a leaf of a book or in the printing industry, a standard piece of paper folded in half to make 4 pages.
• Back in the day, books were printed and stitched together but not bound--the purchaser could then pay additional money to have them bound according to their preference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio#cite_note-8

• The quantity of quality rag paper for the book was imported from France.
• Around 750 copies of the First Folio were printed and 228 are reported still in existence.
• 5 Compositors involved, as shown below--E was a not expert apprentice, John Leason, who had the most difficulty.

	Comedies	Histories	Tragedies	Total pages
"A"	74	80	40	194
"B"	143	89	213	445
"C"	79	22	19	120
"D"	35½	0	0	35½
"E"	0	0	71½	71½

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/sources.htm