The First Folio Tour is an exciting exploration, families can move, play, speak, engage, and above all, have fun with Shakespeare. First Folio is considered one of the most influential books ever published in the English language; its actual title is William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.
First Folio Tour | Folger Shakespeare Library
The 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare is the first printed collection of Shakespeare’s plays, published seven years after his death in 1616. Of the 36 plays assembled by his friends and fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell, eighteen were being published for the first time.
The principal publishers were Edward Blount (1565–1632), a London bookseller and publisher, and Isaac Jaggard (died 1627), son of William Jaggard (circa 1568–1623), a printer and publisher long associated with Shakespeare, who died the year the folio was produced. How many copies of the First Folio were printed is unknown, but the edition most likely was quite small: probably no more than 750 copies. The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC holds 82 copies of the First Folio, about a third of those still in existence, and by far the largest collection in the world. Presented here is copy 68 of this collection.
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Open Source Shakespeare
OpenSourceShakespeare.org is a Web site containing Shakespeare's complete works and all his plays listed by genre including a list of all the characters.
