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Four hundred years ago, in 1623, a book of Shakespeare’s plays was published. This wasn’t just any book: It marked the first time all of Shakespeare’s works were published together — no mean feat back ...

Premieres Friday, Nov. 17, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encore Sunday, Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. on KPBS 2 With only half of Shakespeare’s plays published before his death, often in inaccurate and ...

The First Folio has been called “the book that gave us Shakespeare.” If that sounds a little dramatic — well, it’s also essentially true, said Sam Lemley. Lemley is the curator of special collections ...

Heminges and Condell, actor colleagues of Shakespeare, took it upon themselves (with assistance, financial and otherwise, we are told, from bookseller Edward Blount) to collect, transcribe and print ...

A rare copy of William Shakespeare’s first folio has sold for $2.4m (£2m). Printed in 1623, the book titled Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, compiles 36 of the bard’s plays.

William Shakespeare’s friends and close collaborators succeeded at publishing his works in a huge book — the First Folio — 400 years ago, . The Bard had been dead for nearly a decade, and without the ...

For years, copies — and even partial copies — of "Shakespeare's First Folio" have been sought after by rare book collectors. Now, you can have a facsimile edition — and for slightly less than the $10 ...

This copy of the First Folio is one of fewer than 20 in private hands. Sotheby’s Seven years after William Shakespeare’s death in 1616, two of the playwright’s friends gathered, edited and printed 36 ...

It’s hard to imagine a writer who has had as enduring an impact on the English language as William Shakespeare. Phrases like “neither rhyme nor reason,” “too much of a good thing” or “it’s Greek to me ...

All's Well That Ends Well: The first folio opened to one of the 18 plays that would have been lost had the folio not been assembled by Shakespeare's colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell. This ...