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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