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The Second Folio is the 1632 edition of the collected plays of William Shakespeare. It follows the First Folio of 1623. Much language was updated in the Second Folio and there are almost 1,700 changes.
Second Folio. Full Title: Mr. William Shakespeare Comedies, histories and tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies. The second impression. London, printed by Tho. Cotes for Robert Allot, 1632. Published: London: Smethwick, J., Aspley, W., Hawkins, Richard, and Meighan, Richard, 1632.
The Second Folio is actually the second edition in the same format of Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. In fact the Second Folio was basically a page-by-page reprint of the First Folio and was published in 1632, nine years after the first was published.
Title page of Shakespeare’s Second Folio. Time's Pencil offers a history of how Shakespeare's works changed in content and use after the publication of his First Folio in 1623.
Hamlet. The earliest texts of William Shakespeare 's works were published during the 16th and 17th centuries in quarto or folio format. Folios are large, tall volumes; quartos are smaller, roughly half the size.
The Second Folio, 1632 Nine years after the First Folio, the Second Folio was printed, which reflected the continuing interest in the playwright's work. It contains the same plays as the First Folio, but was also the first attempt at a systematic 'edit' of Shakespeare's plays.
A second Folio was issued in 1632, containing ‘An Epitaph on…Shakespeare’ by Milton, which was his first published poem; a third Folio was issued in 1663, whose second impression of 1664 contained Pericles and six apocryphal plays; the fourth and last Folio was published in 1685.
