Shakespeare's Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare
charts, for the first time, the manufacture of the First Folio against a
turbulent backdrop of seismic political events and international
tensions which intersected with the lives of its creators and which left
their indelible marks on this ambitious publication-project. This story
uncovers the friendships, bonds, social ties, and professional networks
that facilitated the production of Shakespeare’s book—as well as the
personal challenges, tragedies and dangers that threw obstacles in the
path of its chief backers.
It reveals how Shakespeare himself,
before his death, may have influenced the ways in which his own public
identity would come to be enshrined in the First Folio, shaping his
legacy to future generations and determining how the world would
remember him: "not of an age, but for all time."
Shakespeare’s Book tells the true story of how the makers of the First Folio created “Shakespeare” as we know him today.