Shakespeare 450 at OU!

Want to participate in the worldwide celebrations of Shakespeare's 450th year?

Come to the 5th floor of Bizzell Library to view rare books relating to the Bard of Avon, including The Second Folio (1632) and works on history and science from the 16th and 17th centuries.

Mon.- Fri.    8 am - 4:45 pm

Books on display are from the

History of Science Collections

and the

John and Mary Nichols Rare Books and Special Collections

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Exhibit developed with the assistance of Jessie Beckett

 Hemlocke in John Gerard's herbal of 1597

The Three Witches from Macbeth on Hemlocke (Act 4 Scene 1)

Also on display:

Macbeth volume from The Works of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) 

Francis Bacon's Sylva Slyvarum (1628)

 Galileo's Dialogo (Florence,1632)

 The Second Folio (London, 1632)

 William Camden's history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (London,1630)

 Also on display: Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of 1577

 Shakesperian tableaux (London, 1854)

Shakespeare Memorial Souvenir of the Shakespeare Ball (1911)