Before digital cameras and phones were available for pirating plays and movies, unscrupulous Tudor publishers sent scribes to performances with ink wells, quill pens, and small sheets of paper to copy out the plays. No surprise that many unauthorized and bad versions of popular plays, including those by Shakespeare, were printed. The Book of Will tells the story of Shakespeare’s friends and business partners who rally after his death to build a collection of his plays, the First Folio. It’s harder than you might think.