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False Folio

This was the major innovation of the collection: Jaggard joined together two previously separate texts, The First Part of the Contention Betwixt the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (the early version of Henry VI, Part 2, published by Thomas Millington in 1594 and 1600), and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York (the early version of Henry VI, Part 3, published by Millington in 1595 and 1600).


1619 in literature

William Jaggard and Thomas Pavier publish the so-called False Folio, a collection of Shakespearean and pseudo-Shakespearean plays mostly with false imprints and dates, in London.


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