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Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare, commonly referred to by modern scholars as the First Folio, published in 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare's death. It is considered one of the most influential books ever published.
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.
Apr 21, 2023 · After the show, one of the actors, Dorothy Tutin, approached the pope clutching a rare copy of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, the earliest collection of the Bard’s plays ever published.
- Ellen Wexler
Jul 9, 2024 · Learn about the First Folio edition (1623) of William Shakespeare's plays and its allure for collectors and scholars. In addition, take a look at the Hinman collator, a machine originally developed to help scholars detect minute differences between copies of the First Folio.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The original introduction to the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays 1623, with Ben Jonson's Eulogy.
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:
Images of the First Folio include its famous portrait of Shakespeare and title page; Heminge and Condell’s prophetic appeal to “the Great Variety of Readers,” with their praise of Shakespeare as an “imitator of Nature” and possessed of “easinesse” when composing; Ben Jonson’s poem praising Shakespeare as “for all time”; and ...
