Printing Press Demonstration at Shakespeare's Globe

#shakespearesglobe had a good little area downstairs to learn while waiting for your tour including a gentleman teaching us about the printing press. Which was great because we had just seen Shakespeare’s First Folio at the #thebritishlibrary He showed us all the little steps including how they took their print from the rough draft of Shakespeare leaving lots of room for errors. Printmakers often changed words when they ran out of a certain letter or might have added a few lines for spacing or spelled differently. Additionally, it required precision on the part of the printer to not turn letter into smears and over or under inking which would allow for additionally transcription errors from his printed book. And very time consuming and expensive. His point? You can’t over analyze Shakespeare’s words or punctuation because you don’t even know if he put it that way initially. He wrote for it to be acted not written and dissected. Such good points that I had never heard at a printing press demonstration before. And just the same way Gutenberg did it.