Shakespeare's First Folio

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This is William Shakespeare's First Folio, set in the spelling of the early printed text. A note at the front shows the first lines of Hamlet as printed, "Barnardo. Who's there? Fran. Nay answer me: Stand & vnfold your selfe," and explains that u and v are exchanged in places, which is why some words look odd.

In one passage outlaws offer a banished man, marked Val., the place of captain, saying some of them are gentlemen driven from company. In another, speakers marked Sicin. and Bru. talk with an aedile about a list of voices gathered by tribes and the cries the people are to raise for each sentence. Elsewhere a speaker marked Por. says that the lottery of her destiny bars her from choosing for herself.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet who lived during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and authored approximately 37 plays and 154 sonnets that explore themes of love, power, ambition, and human nature.