First Folio

Devise, wit; write pen, for I am for whole volumes in folio.

Love’s Labour’s Lost 1.2.178-9

 

The First Folio, published in 1623 by John Heminge and Henry Condell, was an attempt at a comprehensive collection of Shakespeare's plays. It included thirty-six plays, eighteen of which had never before been published and would therefore probably be lost without the First Folio.

Troilus and Cressida is one of the plays by Shakespeare that cannot be found in the table of content of the First Folio. Presumably, it was forgotten when the table of content was printed. The play itself, however, is available in the volume and has been inserted in front of the other tragedies, without pagination.

However, not all the plays now accepted as Shakespeare's have been included: Pericles (published in 1609 as a Bad Quarto written at least partly by Shakespeare) and The Two Noble Kinsmen (published in 1634 as the work of Shakespeare and John Fletcher) are both not available.

Shakespeare: First Folio
William Shakespeare: First Folio
The Internet Shakespeare Editions: Draft Early Texts

Shakespeare in Quarto at the British Library

Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies: A Facsimile of the First Folio, 1623