Four hundred years ago yesterday saw the first printing of one of the great wonders of the literary world: Shakespeare’s First Folio. Published in 1623, seven years after he died, it was the first printed edition of the collected plays. Without this achievement, half of Shakespeare’s dramatic work would have been lost. — Folio 400
a small aside from Tolstoy : https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2020/10/lear-lite.html