That Greg Doran’s page-turning book “My Shakespeare: A Director’s Journey Through the First Folio” was published this year is perfectly timed; it is 400 years since the “First Folio” was published. It is a fitting tribute to the world’s most renowned playwright and poet, as well as to Doran’s years when in 2012 he began as the artistic director of England’s Royal Shakespeare Company, located at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England, to when he stepped down in 2022.
When Shakespeare’s plays were first performed, some of them were not published. The great English playwright died in 1616, and in 1623 John Heminge and Henry Condell worried that the Bard would be forgotten, which is why they were determined to publish all his works in a text called the “First Folio.”
