“ Shakespeare’s plays are still powerful statements on the human condition ”

HIS YEAR IS THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF the publication of Shakespeare’s complete works, known as the First Folio. It was in November 1623, in William Jaggard’s printing house at the “sign of the Half-Eagle and Key” in Aldersgate, that the last pages of the whopping 900-page book came off the press. The whole print run (unbound) was then taken to the bookshops in St Paul’s churchyard. The