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Why is the First Folio of 1623 so important to Shakespeare's legacy?
Two fellow actors compiled it seven years after his death; no play survives in his manuscript. Without the Folio, half the canon would be lost.
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William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (1564-1616) of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote some 38 plays and 154 sonnets that became the most performed, quoted, and translated body of drama on Earth. Actor-shareholder in the Globe's company, coiner of hundreds of English words, he left famous documentary gaps — and a will bequeathing his wife the 'second-best bed'.
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