FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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The first play Shakespeare ever published.
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The first printed audience playbill ever.
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The current complete collection of Shakespeare’s works.
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The first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The First Folio is the first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays, produced seven years after his death. Its title is Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, and it groups his plays into those categories-comedies, histories, and tragedies-for the first time.
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: -The First Folio was created in the years after Shakespeare’s death in 1616. His friends and former colleagues John Heminge and Henry Condell, who were also partners in the King’s Men acting company, brought together his plays. The book was published by a London syndicate headed by Edward Blount and Isaac Jaggard.
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: -The book often referred to as The First Folio was published in 1623, 7 years after the death of William Shakespeare. It’s a collection of 36 of Shakespeare’s works and was brought together by two of his friends, John Heminges and Henry Condell under the full title of: Mr.