Othello: The Curator's Room

Our exhibition Shakespeare Metamorphosis, concerns Shakespeare as text. In the Curators’ Room we weave the story of the text into the story of the library, as we talk about not only the words of the text but also the books that contain them, and their history and owners before they came to the University of London.

On display in the Curators’ Room is a rare First Folio and we see editions intended neither for scholarship nor plain reading, but for sheer beauty.