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Nick de Somogyi is an independent scholar and curator, and is the editor of Shakespeare on Theatre and the Shakespeare Folios series, both for Nick Hern Books.
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.