ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The First Folio of Shakespeare, published in 1623, is an extraordinary book. About half of Shakespeare’s plays had never previously appeared in print, including As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Tempest, and many more. Without the First Folio, 18 plays might have been lost forever.

Detailed explanation-2: -The First Folio is the first collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays, collated and published in 1623, seven years after his death. Folio editions were large and expensive books that were seen as prestige items.

Detailed explanation-3: -First Folio, first published edition (1623) of the collected works of William Shakespeare, originally published as Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies. It is the major source for contemporary texts of his plays.

Detailed explanation-4: -The book was published by a London syndicate headed by Edward Blount and Isaac Jaggard. Isaac’s father William Jaggard printed it at his London printing shop, but he died before the book was completed.

Detailed explanation-5: -After leaving the printing shop of Issac Jaggard in the Barbican in the autumn of 1623, the Shakespeare First Folios have found their way to all corners of the globe, although almost a third of all known copies have ended up in one place: The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC.