The 100 best nonfiction books: No 97 " The First Folio by William Shakespeare (1623)
The first edition of Shakespeare's plays established the playwright for all time in a trove of some 36 plays with an assembled cast of immortal charactersIn 1612, a contemporary of Shakespeare's, the playwright Thomas Heywood, published An Apology for Actors, in which he expressed a patriotic sentiment about the English language, boastful at the time, which now seems unexceptional:Our English tongue, which hath been …