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Criticism

‘Not on his Picture, but his Booke’: Shakespeare’s First Folio and Practices of Collection

Amy LidsterEnglish Faculty, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 28-55 | Received 02 Jun 2023, Accepted 01 Aug 2023, Published online: 29 Aug 2023

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