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Actor’s voice beamed up for Bard display visitors
Sir Patrick Stewart: His voice will welcome museum visitors.
Visitors to the Shakespeare First Folio display in Skipton will be welcomed by the voice of Sir Patrick Stewart.
The actor, who was born in Yorkshire, has provided the voice-over for the audio display at the forthcoming exhibition at Craven Museum and Gallery.
Sir Patrick’s voice-over will talk visitors through the history of first folios and Shakespeare’s plays when the Shakespeare First Folio goes on public display at the museum later this month.
Published in 1623, seven years after William Shakespeare’s death, the book is a compilation of his plays in one volume.
No more than 750 copies of this “First Folio” were printed and today only about 230 survive, with fewer than 50 in the British Isles.
For decades the council thought the folio was a second edition until it was confirmed as a first folio in 2003.
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