Second Folio of Shakespeare

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Shakespeare folio collected edition early modern printed book printed book

The Second Folio of Shakespeare is the 1632 second collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays, notable for reprinting and slightly revising the landmark First Folio text.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies	3
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies	1
Second Folio	1
Second Folio of Shakespeare canonical	1
Shakespeare folios	1
Shakespeare's collected plays	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4056114 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Second Folio of Shakespeare
Context triple: [First Folio of Shakespeare, followedBy, Second Folio of Shakespeare]

A. First Folio of Shakespeare
The First Folio of Shakespeare is the 1623 collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays, regarded as the most authoritative early source for many of his works and a cornerstone of English literary history.
B. Shakespeare quartos
Shakespeare quartos are early, individually printed editions of William Shakespeare’s plays that provide crucial evidence about the texts’ original forms and their publication history.
C. The Yale Shakespeare
The Yale Shakespeare is a distinguished scholarly edition of William Shakespeare’s works published by Yale University Press, known for its authoritative texts and academic commentary.
D. Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare
The Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare is a famous early 17th-century oil painting widely believed to depict the playwright and poet, and is one of the most iconic images associated with him.
E. Shakespeare; or, the Poet
"Shakespeare; or, the Poet" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that examines William Shakespeare’s genius and significance as the archetypal poet, included as one of the portraits in his collection "Representative Men."
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Second Folio of Shakespeare
Target entity description: The Second Folio of Shakespeare is the 1632 second collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays, notable for reprinting and slightly revising the landmark First Folio text.

A. First Folio of Shakespeare
The First Folio of Shakespeare is the 1623 collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays, regarded as the most authoritative early source for many of his works and a cornerstone of English literary history.
B. Shakespeare quartos
Shakespeare quartos are early, individually printed editions of William Shakespeare’s plays that provide crucial evidence about the texts’ original forms and their publication history.
C. The Yale Shakespeare
The Yale Shakespeare is a distinguished scholarly edition of William Shakespeare’s works published by Yale University Press, known for its authoritative texts and academic commentary.
D. Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare
The Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare is a famous early 17th-century oil painting widely believed to depict the playwright and poet, and is one of the most iconic images associated with him.
E. Shakespeare; or, the Poet
"Shakespeare; or, the Poet" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that examines William Shakespeare’s genius and significance as the archetypal poet, included as one of the portraits in his collection "Representative Men."
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Shakespeare folio ⓘ collected edition ⓘ early modern printed book ⓘ printed book ⓘ
approximateNumberOfPlays	36 ⓘ
basedOn	First Folio of Shakespeare ⓘ
chronologicallyBetween	First Folio of Shakespeare ⓘ Third Folio of Shakespeare ⓘ
collects	plays previously printed in quarto and folio forms ⓘ
contains	Shakespearean comedies ⓘ Shakespearean histories ⓘ Shakespearean tragedies ⓘ
containsWorksBy	William Shakespeare ⓘ
countryOfPublication	England ⓘ
editionNumber	2 ⓘ
era	Caroline era ⓘ
follows	First Folio of Shakespeare ⓘ
format	folio ⓘ
genre	drama collection ⓘ
hasCanonicalStatus	major early source for Shakespeare’s plays ⓘ
hasFrontMatter	prefatory material ⓘ title page ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	Shakespearean textual tradition ⓘ linked to: Shakespearean textual scholarship subsequent Shakespeare printings ⓘ
hasPhysicalForm	bound volume ⓘ
isPartOf	Shakespeare folios ⓘ linked to: Second Folio of Shakespeare
language	English ⓘ
literaryPeriod	English Renaissance drama ⓘ
material	paper ⓘ
notableFor	early modern editorial interventions in Shakespeare’s text ⓘ reprinting the First Folio text ⓘ slight textual revisions of the First Folio ⓘ
placeOfPublication	London ⓘ linked to: London, England
preserves	early modern stage texts of Shakespeare ⓘ
publicationYear	1632 ⓘ
script	italic type ⓘ roman type ⓘ
shortName	Second Folio ⓘ linked to: Second Folio of Shakespeare
subject	Elizabethan theatre ⓘ linked to: English Renaissance drama Jacobean theatre ⓘ
textType	dramatic works ⓘ
timeSinceFirstFolio	about 9 years after the First Folio ⓘ
title	Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies ⓘ linked to: Second Folio of Shakespeare
usedBy	editors of modern Shakespeare editions ⓘ textual scholars of Shakespeare ⓘ
usedFor	comparative textual criticism of Shakespeare ⓘ establishing Shakespearean variants ⓘ

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