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Shakespeare is unusual among the dramatists of his age in that almost all of the considerable number of plays he wrote still survive. This is because two of his friends got together after his death and published a collection of his works called the First Folio, in 1623. Many of the plays in that book had never been published before (including such well-known plays as Macbeth) and would have been lost had the Folio never been published. Later editions of the Folio included the play Pericles. The Two Noble Kinsmen had been seperately published and is generally conceded to have been written by Shakespeare. This makes 38 plays.

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