
Professor Emma Smith
The Munro First Folio
22nd February 2021
“Shakespeare’s high cultural status in the age of empire really transformed the First Folio into an iconic object.”
interesting and discerning material related to all aspects of Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies,
First Ed. 1623.
The First Folio is one of the great wonders of the literary world. Published on 8th November 1623, more than seven years after the death of its author, it was the first printed edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays. This website is dedicated to this achievement, without which we would have lost half of his dramatic work.