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In his own lifetime, Shakespeare saw only about half of his plays enter print. Some individual plays were published in quarto, a small, cheap format.Then, in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, his fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell compiled a folio collection of his complete plays, now known as the First Folio.
Henry V (play) Henry VI, Part 1; Henry VI, Part 2; Henry VI, Part 3; Henry VIII (play) The History of Cardenio; Holland's Leaguer (play) The Honest Man's Fortune; The Honest Whore; Honoria and Mammon; Horestes; The Hue and Cry After Cupid; The Humorous Courtier; An Humorous Day's Mirth; The Humorous Lieutenant; Hyde Park (play) Hymen's Triumph ...
It contains 36 plays, 18 of which were printed for the first time. Because Shakespeare was dead, the folio was compiled by John Heminges and Henry Condell (fellow actors in Shakespeare's company), and arranged into comedies, histories and tragedies. The First Folio is generally looked to by actors and directors as the purest form of Shakespeare ...
Jonson's play uses this fair as the setting for an unusually detailed and diverse panorama of early seventeenth-century London life. The one day of fair life represented in the play allows Jonson ample opportunity to not just conduct his plot, but also to depict the vivid life of the fair, from pickpockets and bullies to justices and slumming ...
The 1647 folio was published by the booksellers Humphrey Moseley and Humphrey Robinson.It was modelled on the precedents of the first two folio collections of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623 and 1632, and the first two folios of the works of Ben Jonson of 1616 and 1640–1.
Title page of the 1607 quarto. The Puritan, or the Widow of Watling Street, also known as The Puritan Widow, is an anonymous Jacobean stage comedy, first published in 1607. . It is often attributed to Thomas Middleton, but also belongs to the Shakespeare Apocrypha due to its title page attribution to "W.S