Because Shakespeare never published his own work when he was alive. So when he died two of his theatre friends finally decided to publish them. These first published plays are found in whats called the First Folio.
All of them. That's why they were able to put out a collected plays volume called the First Folio seven years after Shakespeare died. The King's Men owned the scripts and the right to publish them; Shakespeare did not.
No, Shakespeare's work was not first published at his baptism. Shakespeare's plays and poetry were published during his lifetime, with the first collection of his plays published in 1623, seven years after his death. However, it is unclear if Shakespeare himself oversaw the publication of his work, or if they were published by others after his death.
seven years after he died, in 1623, Shakespeare's first folio was published, including 36 plays. The folio was put together by his friends so that nobody could take Shakespeare's work as theirs.
The first publication of Shakespeare's plays was called First Folio. They were published by a man called Thomas Thorpe.
Shakespeare's first folio of his plays was not published in 1565 since he was only one year old at the time. It was actually published in 1623, some seven years after his death.
He wrote thirty seven accountable Plays.
About 18 of them were published before he died. About 19 more were published in 1623, seven years after he died in 1616. The Two Noble Kinsmen wasn't published until 1634, 18 years after his death.
It was first printed in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death.
About seven years.
The First Folio was the first Collected Works edition of Shakespeare's plays; it was the work of his fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell, and came out in 1623, some seven years after Shakespeare's death. However, many of the plays had been published earlier. A "first edition" of Romeo and Juliet would be dated 1597.
All 38 plays which we recognize as Shakespeare's were published before 1634 in some form. We are very fortunate in that two friends of Shakespeare's, Heminges and Condell, decided after his death to publish a compendium of his plays. William Shakespeare's plays were published in 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare's death, in a volume entitled "Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies," known as "The First Folio," containing the text of 36 plays. These were produced by his colleagues in the acting company known as "The King's Men" and are considered to be authentic. Had it not been published, we would never have heard of about half of the plays we know to be Shakespeare's, including such famous ones as Macbeth and Julius Caesar.The Collection of Shakespeare's plays has been re-edited and reprinted constantly since 1623. Sometimes new plays were added to the original 36 in the First Folio, and sometimes these were afterwards removed.In addition to the First Folio, some plays were published seperately in what are called Quarto size (half as big as the Folio) in which the text differed from the First Folio versions. The words "folio" and "quarto" describe the sizes of paper on which they were printed. If they hadn't been, we would have had no source for the two plays now agreed to be by Shakespeare which were not in the First Folio, Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen. Also, the Folio and Quarto versions of Hamlet and King Lear particularly are very different from each other. Without the Quarto versions, a lot of very familiar lines would have been lost. Thankfully, people kept these old books and didn't throw them out because they were old.Once published, the plays have been continuously republished since, and there is an unbroken chain of productions since 1660.The truth is that some of Shakespeare's plays may have never even been written down, and some that were written down may have been destroyed by the passage of time and the elements. At least two plays whose titles we know have disappeared completely. There may be others of which we do not even know the title.
In 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare's death, two of his colleagues published a collection of Shakespeare's plays containing 36 scripts, about half of which had been previously published. The play Pericles, which had been published in 1609, was soon added. Scholars now also consider Shakespeare to have been one of the authors of The Two Noble Kinsmen, which was published as written by Shakespeare and Fletcher. (Fletcher almost certainly co- wrote other plays with Shakespeare.) Then there are two titles of plays of which no copies have come down to us: Cardenio and Love's Labour's Won. So that makes forty plays altogether. There may have been more we don't know about.