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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, [a] published in 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare's death. It is considered one of the most influential books ever published.
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 ...
William Jaggard (c. 1568 – November 1623) was an Elizabethan and Jacobean printer and publisher, best known for his connection with the texts of William Shakespeare, most notably the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays. Jaggard's shop was "at the sign of the Half-Eagle and Key in Barbican." [1]
Shakespeare's First Folio was compiled by his friends and published on Nov. 8, 1623, seven years after his death. Some 750 copies are believed to have been printed, containing 36 of the 37 plays ...
Shakespeare's First Folio was compiled by his friends and published on Nov. 8, 1623, seven years after his death. To mark the anniversary, filmmaker Jack Jewers made six short films addressing ...
To mark the continued resonance of the famed playwright’s words 400 years after the publication of his “First Folio” on November 8, 1623, British filmmaker Jack Jewers has sent a portrait of ...
The first page of Troilus and Cressida, printed in the First Folio of 1623 The story of the persuasion of Achilles into battle is drawn from Homer's Iliad (perhaps in the translation by George Chapman ), and from various medieval and Renaissance retellings, whereas the story of Troilus and Cressida is a medieval chivalric romance that is not ...
The Life of King Henry the Fift (Folio) Shakespeare: written 1599, published 1623 The True and Honourable Historie of the Life of Sir John Oldcastle: Anthony Munday, Michael Drayton, Richard Hathwaye and Robert Wilson: published 1600 Henry VI: The First Part of Henry the Sixt: Shakespeare: written c. 1590–91; [86] published 1623
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