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The First Folio of Shakespeare. There would be at least two more First Folio of Shakespeare released, each one categorizing, revising or abridging the previous volume. The First Folio of
Shakespeare, no matter how many times revised, still stands as one of the foremost resources for the Shakespearian scholar today. The First Folio as it has been called is simply
a collection of Shakespeares dramas. The editors of the volume, Shakespeares fellow actors John Heminge and Henry Condell, arranged the plays in three genres: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies(Hinman, ix, se
also Stritmatter, Bartolovich 7). The first volume was printed in 1623 and contends that it is THE only place where all of his original plays can be found(Stritmatter, see also
West 173). No once seems to be certain how many of these First Folios were in existence and so a concentrated search was begun. In 1902 Sidney Lee determined that
there may be as many as 158 copies, but later that number was amended to 228(West 173). Credit enough cannot be given to these staunch friends of Shakespeares. If they
had not published this First Folio, experts state that many of Shakespeares last plays would have faded into nothing with the passing of time. Those plays were: Cymbeline, The Winters
Tale, and The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, As You Like It and Twelfth Night(West 180, see also Moston, 22). The largest First Folio collection is housed
in the Folgers Library, many in pieces and fragments, often highly damaged. Many books which have been written on the First Folio state that often the books that are to
be found in the Folger collection are copies which were cannibalized in order to make complete copies of other less damaged copies(Hunter 11, see also Werstine 2).
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