Please join Rebecca Chung (UMSI), Fritz Swanson (Wolverine Press), and Justin Schell (Shapiro Design Lab), for conversation about the Wolverine Press's edition of a famous sheet of paper: the G gathering from the Q2 (second quarto) of Hamlet, which includes Hamlet’s “To be, or not to be” speech, his repudiation of Ophelia with “Get thee a Nunry,” and his speech to the players, “sute the action to the word.”

The edition is entirely handset and printed by U-M students working at U-M's letterpress studio, the Wolverine Press; production also includes experimentation with 3D printers to reconstruct seventeenth-century printer's blocks. Come to see tools and materials from the process, to learn more about letterpress work in a research setting, and to celebrate the release of the edition, copies of which will be given to event attendees.

Allow time to visit the adjacent exhibit, Shakespeare on Text and Stage: A Celebration http://www.lib.umich.edu/events/shakespeare-page-and-stage-celebration.

This workshop is part of a series of U-M Library events commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.