![]() ![]() Printing the First Folio was a hugely ambitious project. Heminges and Condell despaired at how Shakespeare’s plays had been ‘abused’, ‘stolen’ and ‘deformed’ in previously printed quarto editions, and aimed to create a printed memorial of Shakespeare as a playwright. John Heminges and Henry Condell worked with William Shakespeare in the King’s Men as actors and company shareholders, and they had exceptional access to the theatre company’s collection of manuscripts. About 750 copies of the First Folio were printed, and 235 are known to have survived, with around 50 copies still in the UK today. If the First Folio had not been printed, significant plays, such as The Tempest and Macbeth, would have been lost to history. ![]() ![]() The Shakespeare First Folio contains 36 plays, half of which were published in 1623 for the first time. ![]()
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