HomeExhibitProgrammingOpening Panel and Reception: The First Folio: 1623 and todaySymposium: America’s Shakespeare“The play’s the thing”¡Shakespeare para todos!Spanish translation of the pageTeaching Shakespeare WorkshopOther EventsResourcesBrown’s First FoliosShakespeare in Brown’s Libraries Resources “What, at your book so hard?” —Henry VI, Part 3 “A beggar’s book / Outweighs a noble’s blood.” —Henry VIII “. . . my library / Was dukedom large enough.” —The Tempest Credits: Shakespeare’s First Folio, 1623. Folger Shakespeare Library.