Shakespeare's plays survive because friends and actors assembled posthumous texts from notes and memory in the First Folio after a performance-centered culture did not incentivize publication.
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Shakespeare's plays survive because friends and actors assembled posthumous texts from notes and memory in the First Folio after a performance-centered culture did not incentivize publication.
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"played off is performed all the time and you are forced to read Shakespeare in school so where is where do we get these..."
"Shakespeare was so after his death his friends and I don't know their names okay but his friends want to remember him they want..."
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