Without it, a substantial part of Shakespeare’s dramatic oeuvre would not be known to us today. The First Folio contains thirty-six of Shakespeare’s plays. The selection of plays contained in the Folio was made by John Heminges and Hendry Condell who were actors and share-holders with The King’s Men, the acting company with which Shakespeare worked for most of his career.
It was produced by Isaac Jaggard and published by Ed Blount. The First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s dramatic works is now one of the most famous printed works in existence. This facsimile edition was produced by using the complete First Folio collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, which currently owns a total of eighty-two Folio copies that all vary slightly in structure, condition, and appearance. The LMU’s Shakespeare Research Library holds a copy of the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare in a Norton Facsimile edition.
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