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

The sale marks the first time since 1989 that the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works appear at ...

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 ...

His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, ...