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This comprehensive new volume in the Brief Chronicle series brings together exciting new research on the venerable First Folio, along with in-depth articles on the subject from other journals. Discover Shakespeare as you never knew him thru this fascinating compilation of research on the first publication of Shakespeare’s plays. Brief Chronicles is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal dedicated to examining the Shakespeare authorship question and more generally topics in early modern authorship studies from the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship. Volume 8 of Brief Chronicles covers the topic of the First Folio and features the following articles: “The Book that Shakespeare Gave Us or ‘The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare?’ ” by Shelly Maycock; “First Folio Fraud” by Katherine Chiljan; “Production of the First Folio Reconsidered” by Gabriel Ready; “ ‘Bestow How, and When you List…’: The de Veres and the 1623 Shakespeare Folio” by Roger Stritmatter; “Ben Jonson’s “Small Latine and Lesse Greeke” Anatomy of a Misquotation (Part 1)” by R. Stritmatter; “ ‘The Knotty Wrong-Side’: Another Spanish Connection to the First Folio” by Gabriel Ready; “What Role Did the Herbert Family Play in the Shakespeare Cover-Up?” by Bruce Johnston; “Shakespeare’s Son on Death Row” by Bill Boyle; “The First Folio Paratexts” by R. Stritmatter; “ ‘Look Not on This Picture’: Ambiguity in the Shakespeare First Folio” by Richard F. Whalen; “Shakespeare’s Impossible Doublet: Droeshout’s Engraving Anatomized” by John Rollet; “Caleygreyhounds and the First Folios of Jonson and Shakespeare” by Michael Hyde; “Ben Jonson’s “Small Latine & Less Greeke”: Anatomy of a Misquotation, Pt 2” by R. Stritmatter; “Jonson’s Sweet Swan of Avon” by Alexander Waugh; “ ‘Publish We This Peace…’: A Note on the Design of the Shakespeare First Folio and the Spanish Marriage Crisis” by R. Stritmatter; “One Pretty Secret: Gervase Markham Reveals Shakespeare’s Identity” by Heidi Jannsch; “Gervase Markham’s Hono