Shakespeare's next scene- you decide
5 May 2011
A page of the Folio is turned once a month and now you could be the one to pick the next page with the new ‘Donate & Decide’ lottery. Tickets are £2 each or you can buy a year’s supply (12 tickets) for £20. A winner will be drawn at random each month and contacted by the museum to choose any of the pages from the plays that appear in the Skipton First Folio: Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VIII, King John, Richard II, Richard III, Anthony & Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus and Troylus & Cressida.
All donations to ‘Donate & Decide’ will go towards the preservation of the Shakespeare First Folio and the museum and tickets are available from the museum gift shop.
Dr Mark Westgarth of Leeds University, who recently gave a talk at the Town Hall about Shakespearian memorabilia has chosen the next page to be turned. The Folio is now on display open at a page from Henry VI Part 3 which features the character John Clifford. Clifford, who is thought to have been nicknamed ‘Bloody’, ‘the Butcher’ and ‘Black-faced Clifford’, was Lord of Skipton Castle during the mid 15th century.
Find out more about the Shakespeare First Folio display.
