ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The First Folio is the first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays, produced seven years after his death.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare and Elizabethan England in Special Collections: False Folio. One of the “Pavier quartos, ” also known as the False Folio, printed in 1619 by William Jaggard for Thomas Pavier, intended to be issued as part of what Greg calls “The Collection of 1619.

Detailed explanation-3: -False Folio is the term that Shakespeare scholars and bibliographers have applied to William Jaggard’s printing of ten Shakespearean and pseudo-Shakespearean plays together in 1619, the first attempt to collect Shakespeare’s work in a single volume. There are only two complete extant copies.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Seven years after Shakespeare’s death, John Heminge and Henry Condell, his friends and colleagues in the King’s Men acting company, collected almost all of his plays in a folio edition, now called the First Folio.