shakespeare is the cornerstone of our cultural life in the way that he is. he simply wouldn't exist as part of the kind of national conversation in the way that he does without the first folio. those — we would have lost so many of those plays. you know, i'm sitting here at the end of my first day of rehearsals for macbeth, a play that's been in performance now for over 400 years, but it wouldn't exist. we wouldn't have a copy of it. and even those that we did have, that we do have other sources for, the folio was the kind of...the prestige edition. and the reason that those plays are still performed around the world, the reason that shakespeare is the cultural colossus that he is, is because that book was published. great glamis... ..worthy cawdor. greater than both by the all—hail hereafter...