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The Second Folio is the 1632 edition of the collected plays of William Shakespeare. It follows the First Folio of 1623. Much language was updated in the Second Folio and there are almost 1,700 changes.
View Book. Book Name: Second Folio. Full Title: Mr. William Shakespeare Comedies, histories and tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies. The second impression. London, printed by Tho. Cotes for Robert Allot, 1632.
Dec 4, 2020 · The Folger Shakespeare Library, famous for its collection of 82 First Folios, also owns 58 copies of the Second Folio. But what is a folio and what makes it so special?
The Second Folio was published by Allot, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and John Smethwick, and printed by Thomas Cotes. It contained the same plays as the First Folio and much of the same additional material, with the addition of an unsigned poem by John Milton .
The Second Folio, 1632. Nine years after the First Folio, the Second Folio was printed, which reflected the continuing interest in the playwright's work. It contains the same plays as the First Folio, but was also the first attempt at a systematic 'edit' of Shakespeare's plays.
Oct 10, 2018 · The posthumous publishing by Shakespeare’s friends and contemporaries captured the most accurate accounting of his plays. It’s called the Second Folio simply because it was the second edition, published in 1632 following the first edition of 1623.
The edition expanded the opening set of commendatory poems praising Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s reputation had continued to grow. This section of the Second Folio features an elegy on Shakespeare by aspiring poet John Milton – his first published poem, though his name was not printed.
