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Shakespeare Census

@shakespearecensus.bsky.social

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Locating and describing all extant copies of Shakespeare before 1700 Shakespearecensus.org

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Shakespeare Census @shakespearecensus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Very happy that we have won the 2025 Innovation Award from @bsashakespeare.bsky.social! It’s a wonderful honor, and we’re so proud and glad the site has found users.

The BSA innovation award, a lively hand-carved block of wood with lettering on it

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Does anyone know if the @britishlibrary.bsky.social ever plans to restore the Shakespeare in Quarto site or to make the underlying digital facsimiles accessible? The Oxford Shakeespeare Quartos Archive (which had copies) is also defunct. Are those facsimiles accessible somehow? @richove.bsky.social

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Shakespeare Census @shakespearecensus.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

And we’re back! We’ve spent some time debugging and I think everything is working as expected , but please let us know if you see anything that’s not working right. Thanks for your patience!

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Shakespeare Census @shakespearecensus.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

We're getting there, everyone. Hopefully the site will be back up next week for some testing, and then live for the world the following week. Thanks for your patience. If any publisher out there wants to print a version of the Census (as of 2026), let me know. Books > websites for durability.

SEPTA's old slogan: "We're Getting There."

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Shakespeare Census @shakespearecensus.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We are making progress on restoring the site to regular functionality. More soon. Hopefully it will be working as normal in the near future

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Shakespeare Census @shakespearecensus.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Quick update: the site is back up at its usual URL: shakespearecensus.org But still in a flattened archival version without full functionality. We're continuing to work on getting the pop-up windows with copy details back up, as well as other functions, even in this temporary version of the site.

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Shakespeare Census @shakespearecensus.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The site is currently down due to an “attempted malicious attack.” We should have a version of the site up soon but it may lack search functionality. We’re working on a full solution asap

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Shakespeare Census @shakespearecensus.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

📣📢📣We've just added a First Folio (SC 5381). The "Honeyman copy" is listed as untraced in both West and Rasmussen & West, but it is now confirmed. It has interesting MS corrections and references to (nonexistent??) quartos of 2H4 (1639) and R3 (1624). shakespearecensus.org/sc/5381/

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