Shakespeare's Book

Company

Library of Congress

Price

$16.99

Source

Official Store

2023 marks the 400-year anniversary of the publication of Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies , known today simply as the First Folio. It is difficult to imagine a world without The Tempest , Twelfth Night , Antony and Cleopatra , The Winter’s Tale , and Macbeth , but these are just some of the plays that were only preserved thanks to the astounding labor of love that was the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays. When the First Folio hit the bookstalls in 1623, nearly eight years after the dramatist’s death, it provided eighteen previously unpublished plays…