The next day, Burbage dies, which leaves the remaining two actors, Henry Condell (Jim Sink) and John Heminges (Robert Payawal), in a hurry to get all of Shakespeare’s works collected and compiled into ...

These actors included London’s leading dramatic actor at the time, Richard Burbage; plus Will Kempe, London’s leading comic actor; as well as Richard Cowly, William Slye, John Heminges ...

Two others in that company, John Heminges and Henry Condell, published in 1623, 36 of his plays in the First Folio. Of the 750 copies of the First Folio, only 235 remain in existence today.