Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 213 views

    Shakespeares Folio

    Uploaded by

    api-291592636
    The First Folio is the first collected edition of William Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623, seven years after his death. It contains 36 of Shakespeare's plays, 18 of which had never been printed before. Without the First Folio, those 18 plays may have been lost. The text was collated by two of Shakespeare's fellow actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell, who divided the plays into comedies, tragedies and histories. The portrait of Shakespeare on the title page is one of only two authentic portraits of the playwright.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Shakespeares Folio

    Uploaded by

    api-291592636
    213 views2 pages
    The First Folio is the first collected edition of William Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623, seven years after his death. It contains 36 of Shakespeare's plays, 18 of which had never been printed before. Without the First Folio, those 18 plays may have been lost. The text was collated by two of Shakespeare's fellow actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell, who divided the plays into comedies, tragedies and histories. The portrait of Shakespeare on the title page is one of only two authentic portraits of the playwright.

    Original Title

    shakespeares-folio

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The First Folio is the first collected edition of William Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623, seven years after his death. It contains 36 of Shakespeare's plays, 18 of which had never been printed before. Without the First Folio, those 18 plays may have been lost. The text was collated by two of Shakespeare's fellow actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell, who divided the plays into comedies, tragedies and histories. The portrait of Shakespeare on the title page is one of only two authentic portraits of the playwright.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    213 views2 pages

    Shakespeares Folio

    Uploaded by

    api-291592636
    The First Folio is the first collected edition of William Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623, seven years after his death. It contains 36 of Shakespeare's plays, 18 of which had never been printed before. Without the First Folio, those 18 plays may have been lost. The text was collated by two of Shakespeare's fellow actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell, who divided the plays into comedies, tragedies and histories. The portrait of Shakespeare on the title page is one of only two authentic portraits of the playwright.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    You are on page 1of 2

    Shakespeare's First Folio

    The First Folio is the first collected edition of

    William
    Shakespeare's
    plays,
    collated
    and
    published in 1623. seven years after his death.
    Folio editions were large and expensive books that
    were seen as prestige items.The first record of
    Shakespeare's career as an actor and playwright in
    London is dated 1592, by which time he was well
    established. It is believed his London career began
    sometime between 1585 and 1592. He wrote
    around 37 plays, 36 of which are contained in the
    First Folio. Most of these plays were performed in
    the Globe, an open-air playhouse in London built on
    the south bank of the Thames in 1599. As none of
    Shakespeare's original manuscripts (manuscript is any
    document written by hand or typewritten )survive (except, Sir Thomas
    More) we only know his work from printed editions.
    Of the 36 plays in the First Folio, 17 were printed
    in Shakespeare's life time, one was printed after his
    death and 18 had not yet been printed at all. It is
    this fact that makes the First Folio so important;
    without
    it,
    18
    of
    Shakespeares
    plays,
    including Twelfth
    Night,
    Measure
    for
    Measure, Macbeth, Julius Caesar and The Tempest,
    might never have survived. The text was collated
    by two of Shakespeare's fellow actors and friends,
    John Heminge and Henry Condell, who edited it and
    supervised the printing. They divided the plays into
    comedies, tragedies and histories; an editorial

    decision that has come to


    shape
    our
    idea
    of
    the
    Shakespearean canon. The
    portrait of Shakespeare on the
    title page was engraved by
    Martin Droeshout and is one of
    only
    two
    portraits
    with
    authenticity. As Droeshout would have only been
    15 when Shakespeare died it is unlikely that they
    actually met. Instead his picture was probably
    drawn from the memory of others, or from an
    earlier portrait. A copy of Shaekspeare's First Folio
    has been discovered at stately home on a Scottish
    Island, and now we have 234 copies, this Mount
    Stuart House's copy belonged to Isaac Reed. He
    was a literary editor in 18th Century.
    Petra Kojic II2

    You might also like