Who Stole Shakespeare's First Folio? | Stealing Shakespeare With David Tennant | Absolute History

In 1998, a copy of the most important printed work in the English language was snatched from Durham University. Ten years later, an eccentric book dealer tried to convince the world that he didn't steal it.

This is the inside story of how one man's encounter with a First Folio turned into a drama of Shakespearian proportions. It takes a confident conman to try to fool the world's Shakespeare experts, but that's what 53 year-old book dealer Raymond Scott allegedly tried to do when he walked into Washington DC's Folger Shakespeare Library, intent on authenticating the book he had been given by his Cuban girlfriend's family.

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