"Shakespeare's First Folio" by William Shakespeare is a compilation of plays from the early 1600s, featuring comedies, tragedies, and historical dramas that highlight the author's poetic skill and narrative complexity. This collection preserves the author's work while revealing the printing difficulties of the time period, such as spelling errors and type shortages. The collection starts with introductory notes, featuring lines from a famous play and celebrating the broad literary influence of the author both when he was alive and after, before displaying the wide variety of dramatic works that have become classics of English in it, like "Romeo and Juliet" and "Macbeth."
Shakespeare's First Folio
By William Shakespeare
Step back in time to experience the genius of a playwright whose timeless tales of love, loss, and power were immortalized in a single, extraordinary volume despite the printing challenges of the 17th century.
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About the AuthorWilliam Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
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