![]() ![]() Two Noble Kinsmen and Pericles are not in the First Folio.So we would not have Macbeth, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like it, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, and several other plays were it not for this book. Eighteen of the plays had not appeared in print before the First Folio was printed.Troilus and Cressida appears in the First Folio, but is not listed in the Table of Contents.In the First Folio, the plays are printed one right after another The Tempest is the first.The First Folio contains 36 plays and, for the first time, groups them into comedies, histories, and tragedies.The other is the bust on his grave monuments at Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. As a result, this image is one of two depictions considered to be a true likeness of Shakespeare. While there is no evidence that Droeshout met Shakespeare, his engraving was approved by Shakespeare’s colleagues John Heminge and Henry Condell. Martin Droeshout created the iconic portrait of Shakespeare on the title page of the folio when he was 22 years old.At least five compositors-the guys who set the type in the printing house-worked on the First Folio over a two-year period. They were not scholars but average tradesmen-and they could read.It was put together by two of Shakespeare’s friends and acting colleagues-John Heminge and Henry Condell.The First Folio contains more than 900 double-columned pages, an engraved portrait, and several prefatory letters and poems.Assembling the plays and printing the First Folio was a complicated and expensive project.Plays were not considered literature at that point in time. Shakespeare’s First Folio was the first folio ever published in England devoted exclusively to plays.The folio format was usually reserved for royal, religious, or reference documents. Folio is also a word used to describe the approximate size of a book-a big book. A folio is a term for a large book made by folding the sheets of paper only once.Quarto editions of Shakespeare’s plays are rare just like the folios. These volumes were printed on inexpensive paper and sold unbound they were not intended to last. Before 1623, 19 of Shakespeare’s plays were published in quartos-small books made from folding large sheets of paper in quarters.It was published in London by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, and was printed in the print shop belonging to father and son, William and Isaac Jaggard.The First Folio was printed in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death.The First Folio preserved eighteen of Shakespeare's plays that had never been printed before: All’s Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, 1 Henry VI, Henry VIII, Julius Caesar, King John, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Timon of Athens, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and The Winter’s Tale. ![]() Approximately 750 books were printed. We know of 233 remaining and 82 of them are at the Folger Shakespeare Library.The First Folio has more than 900 pages, making the book’s width 1 3/4 - 2 inches depending on the paper. ![]()
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