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Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the
British Library: Shakespeare and contemporaries

Cover of First Folio with famous 'portrait of ShakespeareThe items listed on this page are currently on display in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library at St Pancras, London.

You can find out more about selected items online. You can also check opening times and get an overview of what the gallery contains.

  • Shakespeare - Pericles, London 1609 c.34.k.36
  • Two Noble Kinsmen, London 1634 - Shakespeare & Fletcher Ashley 85
  • "The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore", manuscript by Shakespeare, etc. Harley MS 7368 folio 9
  • Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy. London, 1615 C.117.b.36
  • Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus. London, 1620 C.39.c.26
  • Ben Jonson, Volpone, London 1607 C.12.e.17
  • Romeus and Juliet, Arthur Brooke, London, 1562 Huth 34
  • Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare, London 1597 C.34.k.55
  • Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare, First Folio C.39.i.12
  • Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare, London, 1753 1507/605
  • Cecil Beaton photograph - John Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft Add. 81465