Hamlet - one of the most difficult problems in the First Folio: probably typeset from some combination of Q2 and manuscript sources.The Tragedy of Macbeth ✓ - probably set from a prompt-book.Julius Caesar ✓ - set from a prompt-book, or a transcript of a prompt-book.Timon of Athens ✓- set from Shakespeare's foul papers of a transcript of them.Romeo and Juliet - in essence a reprint of Q3.Titus Andronicus - typeset from a copy of Q3 that might have served as a prompt-book.Coriolanus ✓ - set from a high-quality authorial transcript.Troilus and Cressida - probably typeset from the quarto, corrected with Shakespeare's "foul papers.".Henry VIII ✓ - typeset from a fair copy of the authors' manuscript.Richard III - a difficult case: probably typeset partially from Q3, and partially from Q6 corrected against a manuscript (maybe "foul papers").Henry VI, Part 3 - like 2H6, probably a Shakespearean prompt-book.Henry VI, Part 2 - probably a Shakespearean manuscript used as a prompt-book.
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The Tempest ✓ - the play was set into type from a manuscript prepared by Ralph Crane, a professional scrivener employed by the King's Men.The Folio includes all of the plays generally accepted to be Shakespeare's, with the exception of Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Plays never published before 1623 are marked here with a tick ✓. Although eighteen of Shakespeare's plays had been published in quarto prior to 1623, the First Folio is the only reliable text for about twenty of the plays, and a valuable source text even for many of those previously published. Printed in folio format and containing 36 plays (see list of Shakespeare's plays), it was prepared by Shakespeare's colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell in 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare's death. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. The First Folio is the name given by modern scholars to the first published collection of William Shakespeare's plays its actual title is Mr. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item.