07-04-2016 14:29 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Rare Shakespeare First Folio found on Scottish island

By Russell Cheyne ISLE OF BUTE, Scotland (Reuters) - A nearly 400-year-old copy of a first edition of William Shakespeare's collected plays has been found in a vast aristocratic house on the Isle of Bute, off the western coast of Scotland. Published in 1623, the First Folio contains Shakespeare's 36 plays, including several that had never been published before and might have been lost without it, such as "Macbeth", "The Tempest" and "As You Like It". The discovery at Mount Stuart, grand neo-Goth
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