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

2023 marks the 400-year anniversary of the publication ofMr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, known today simply as the First Folio. It is difficult to imagine a world withoutThe Tempest,Twelfth Night,Antony and Cleopatra,The Winter's Tale, andMacbeth, but these are just some of the plays that were only preserved thanks to the astounding labor of love that was the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays.

Without the First Folio, Shakespeare is unlikely to have ac...