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The world celebrates and commemorates William Shakespeare every year in April. While any month is a wonderful time to honour his work, November holds a truly special significance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 It was in November 1623 that two of the Bard\u2019s closest friends, John Heminges and Henry Condell, compiled and edited what we now know as the First Folio.<\/em> This definitive collection preserved all of his plays, most of which would have been lost forever without that courageous enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 To celebrate four centuries of the First Folio in 2023, I decided to publish a collection of pseudo-essays featuring those very same plays rewritten for the 21st century. I titled the project The Last Folio,<\/em> using \u2018last\u2019 in the sense of being the most recent. Three years later, in 2026, a second, revised edition of this book was proudly published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Now, 403 Novembers after the First Folio,<\/em> my own modest tribute is to offer the Kindle edition of The Last Folio<\/em> for free, whilst the paperback and hardcover editions are available at a very reasonable price. This special campaign is valid for five days only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/amoz.onl\/LastFolio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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