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The University of Colorado Shakespeare CoLab

The University of Colorado Boulder Folger Shakespeare CoLab (CU Shakespeare CoLab) works hard to make Shakespeare accessible to the public. Since the Folger Shakespeare Library made the First Folio publicly available, the CU Shakespeare CoLab has dedicated itself to collecting and curating content to make the experience of reading Shakespeare’s plays accessible to learners of all levels.

The CU Shakespeare CoLab is a non-profit scholarly website which publishes Shakespeare’s plays along with multimedia annotations that are student-sourced and peer-reviewed. Since 2016, the CU Shakespeare CoLab website provides a wide array of academic resources for students and teachers alike.

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Surfeiting, v.1

"To indulge in something to satiety or excess; esp. to eat or drink to excess."

Orsino intends to overindulge in music as both a purge and cure for his lovesickness.


"surfeit, v." OED Online. Oxford University Press.

Melanie Lo, 2017