Seven years after Shakespeare's death, John Heminge and Henry Condell, his friends and colleagues in the King's Men, collected almost all of his plays in a folio edition. Shakespeare's friendly rival ...

In 1623, seven years after William Shakespeare's death, a compilation of 36 of his plays were published together in one volume. No more than 750 copies of this 'First Folio' were printed and today ...

In 1623, Shakespeare’s plays were published together for the first time as a printed collection, known as the First Folio. To mark 400 years since the occasion, the Folio Society has published his ...

A copy of Shakespeare's First Folio has sold in New York for $2.4m ... it features 36 manuscripts. They include 18 plays that would have otherwise been lost, such as Macbeth and The Tempest.

Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. A Sotheby's employee handles a copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio, the most important book in ... [+] English Literature. The book is estimated ...

In an unabridged version of the play, Prospero says three times as much on the subject, and there’s no spell-casting instruction. For families that love the Bard, “Shakespeare’s First Folio ...

For $107.50 (around $3,650 today), he bought a later, 1685 edition of Shakespeare’s plays, also known as a Fourth Folio. It included seven “new” plays, six of them by other authors.