About
Gabriel Ready is an independent researcher whose work focuses on Shakespeare’s First Folio.
Celebrating the 400th anniversary, two new articles by Gabriel appear in the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship’s Brief Chronicles edition of The First Folio: A Shakespearean Enigma (2023): “History of Fixing” providing a historiographic survey of the last 400 years and a book review of Shakespeare’s Book by Chris Laoutaris.
Gabriel solved a centuries-old problem in “Model of Disorder,” explaining why the preliminaries section of the First Folio was designed to be an optional gathering and how the first 18 pages are found today in several distinct sequential orders.
Gabriel lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Education
MA, English literature, University of Ottawa, 1998
BA, English literature, Laurentian University, 1996 Work Shared in CORE
Articles
Reports
Other Publications
“History of Fixing: On the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio”, Brief Chronicles edition of The First Folio: A Shakespearean Enigma (2023)
“Shakespeare’s Book by Chris Laoutaris: Book Review by Gabriel Ready”, Brief Chronicles edition of The First Folio: A Shakespearean Enigma (2023)
“The Production of the First Folio Reconsidered”, The Oxfordian, Volume 23 (September 2021)
“A Prologue Arm’d: The Printing of Troilus and Cressida in the First Folio”, Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter (August 2021)
“Model of Disorder: The Story of Alternative First Folios”, Humanities Commons, CORE (July 2020)
“The Knotty Wrong-side: Another Spanish Connection to the First Folio”, The Oxfordian, Volume 20 (September 2018)
“Honest Ben and the Two Tribes He Hath Left Us”, The Oxfordian, Volume 17 (September 2015)
