Without the book, scholars say, plays including “Macbeth,” “The Tempest” and “Twelfth Night” might have been lost.

In 1623, seven years after William Shakespeare’s death, two of the playwright’s friends published a compilation of his works.

The books, which compile Shakespeare’s plays, will go on sale at Sotheby’s in London on May 23, a month after the Bard’s ...

LONDON, UK — A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare ... book’s rarity is because some of the stock was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The Third Folio included ...