Shakespeare's Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare

The never-before-told story of how the makers of The First Folio created Shakespeare as we know him today.

2023 marks the 400-year anniversary of the publication of Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, known today simply as the First Folio. It is difficult to imagine a world without The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale, and Macbeth, but these are just some of the plays that were only preserved thanks to the astounding labor of love that w...