Shakespeare's First Folio by William Shakespeare

"Shakespeare's First Folio" by William Shakespeare is a collection of plays published in 1623, seven years after the playwright's death. Prepared by Shakespeare's colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell, this folio contains 36 plays and is considered one of history's most influential books. Eighteen plays, including "The Tempest," "Macbeth," and "Twelfth Night," appear here for the first time in print. Of approximately 750 copies originally printed, 235 survive today, preserving the only reliable texts for roughly twenty of Shakespeare's works. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Title Shakespeare's First Folio
Note Includes 35 plays.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio
Reading Level Reading ease score: 87.2 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Drama
Category Text
EBook-No. 2270
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Sep 23, 2025
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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