William Shakespeare Shakespeare's First Folio Journal

The First Folio the celebrated collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays was published in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death. It was compiled by John Heminge and Henry Condell, both actors in Shakespeare’s company, the King’s Men, and originally titled Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Many of the plays including Macbeth, The Tempest and Twelfth Night do not survive in any earlier printed versions. To mark the 400th anniversary of the public…