by Andrea Mays
Gatherers, 7
Geneva Bible, 222
George V, King of England, 224, 265
Gerry, Elbridge T., 178
Gibson, Strickland, 152–53
Gilburne, Samuel, 49, 201, 204
Gilburne First Folio, 201–5, 217
Gilded Age, 177–78
Globe, The, 150
Globe Theatre, 6–7, 12–13, 27, 48, 218, 246
burning of, 16, 19–20, 29–30
capacity of, 6
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 67, 87, 253
Gosse, Edmund, 157, 159
Gott, John (Bishop of Truro), 168–70, 172, 338n11
Gott, William, 168
Gould, Jay, 210
Grand leaves, 101
Grant’s Row, 212–13, 217, 221, 222, 227, 229, 250–51
Greeley, Horace, 77
Greene, Belle da Costa, 173, 224
Greene, Robert, 5, 8–10, 27, 28, 251
Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit (Greene), 8–10, 251
Gregory, John, 248, 260, 268, 273
Grenville First Folio, 70
Greville, George Guy, 97
Guggenheim, Benjamin, 178
Gutenberg Bible, 110, 140, 146, 173, 194
Gwynn, Edwin, 193, 256
Hackett, James H., 77
Haines, Frederick, 186
Half Eagle and Key, sign of, 35, 275
Hall, Elizabeth, 18
Hall, Susanna, 4, 18
Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard, 70, 71, 89, 97, 191, 325n16
Halliwell-Phillipps Collection of Shakespeare Rarities, 337n11
Halliwell-Phillipps facsimile, 89, 144
Halliwell-Phillips First Folio, 191
Hamersley, Sir Hugh, 337n8
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 2, 3, 14, 18, 19, 25, 30, 31–32, 74, 148, 165
Hanmer, Thomas, 63, 177
Harbeson, John, 248
Harcourt Vernon, E. E., 186
Hargreaves First Folio, 171–72
Harmsworth, Sir Robert Leicester, 270
Harris, John, 99
Harrison, Benjamin, 91
Harvard Library, 181
Harvard University, 72
Hawks, Rachael, 248
Hazlitt, William, 87
H.C. Folger, SS, 190
Hearst, William Randolph, 179
Heminges, John, 11, 12, 18–23, 25, 28–34, 35–39, 44, 46–47, 49, 51, 52, 53, 55–56, 57, 62, 63, 201
career of, 19
contributions to front matter, 36–37
monument to, 275
quotation of used for Folger library, 249
in Shakespeare’s will, 18
Henry E. Huntington Library, 235, 330n2
Henry IV (Shakespeare), 154, 181, 247, 265, 338n11
Henry V (Shakespeare), 13, 14, 22, 102, 168
Henry VI (Shakespeare), 8, 12, 22, 52, 333n10
Henry VIII (Shakespeare and Fletcher), 16, 52, 53, 231
Henslowe, Philip, 6, 16–17
Herne’s Oak relic, 218, 219
Hero and Leander (Marlowe), 264
Hilton, W. Hughes, 186
Hinman collator, 272
Historia Ecclesiastica (Eusebius), 322n8
History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare, The (Collier), 70
History of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobbam, The (misattributed to Shakespeare), 22, 58
History of the Standard Oil Company, The (Tarbell), 145
Hoe collection, 173, 235–36
Holinshed, Raphael, 264
Holland, Hugh, 48
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 174
Holy Trinity Church, 3, 4, 63, 243, 252, 323n9
Hoover, Herbert, 200, 265
Hosmer, Harriet, 248
Householders, 7, 13
Howe, Lord, 330n2, 338n11
H.R. 9355, 229, 236
Hugo, Victor, xiv, 87, 253
Hunt, Richard Morris, 178
Huntington, Collis, 179
Huntington, Henry Edwards, xiv, 179, 191, 193, 196, 197–98, 209, 216, 220, 235, 274, 280
Devonshire collection purchased by, 183, 184, 192, 329n6
Gutenberg Bible purchased by, 173, 194
Perry collection items purchased by, 194–95
Huth, Henry, 176–77, 182
Hyde Prize, 82
Iambic pentameter, 10, 321n4
Influenza pandemic, 180, 190
Ink (used in First Folio), 42
Inn-Yards, 5
Irving, Henry, 170
Jaggard, Isaac, 36, 46, 52, 53, 57, 116, 153, 254
Jaggard, William, 38, 39, 40, 42, 44, 46, 49–50, 54–55, 101, 102, 193, 195, 244, 254, 275
accused of errors, 50, 54
blindness of, 36, 55
death of, 46, 55
pirated and inauthentic works published by, 13–14, 15, 22
reasons for choosing as printer, 35–36
records of shop, 43
James, Henry, 180
James, William, 180–81
James I, King of England, 14, 244, 254, 270
Jamestown, Virginia, 72
Jefferson, Thomas, 72
Jefferson Building, 212
Johnson, Andrew, 89
Johnson, Gerard, 323n9
Johnson, Samuel, 64, 65, 68, 249
Jonson, Ben, xiii, xvi, 2, 13, 14, 19, 27, 37–38, 55, 61, 239, 263, 281
contributions to First Folio, 36, 45–46, 47–48
quotation of used for Folger library, 249, 250
Jordan, Edward, 89
J.P. Morgan & Co., 178
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), xv, 1, 13, 52, 154, 166, 277
Justifying, 40
Kemp, Will, 49
Kerosene, 83, 84–85, 86, 87, 94
Killenworth (Pratt home), 237–38
King James Bible, xiv, 38
King John (Shakespeare), 12, 52
King Lear (Shakespeare), 13, 19, 22, 30, 144, 168
King’s Men, 2, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 24, 29, 32, 34, 36, 45, 193, 202
Knight, Charles, 70
Krafft, Petrus Johannes, 147, 150
Kyd, Thomas, 5, 47
Kykuit (Rockefeller home), 178
Lacy, W. C., 186
Ladd, William M., 81
Lamb, Charles, 333n10
Lancashire Evening Post, 156
Law, Alfred, 186
Lazear, Edward, 336n2
Lee, Sir Sidney, 109–12, 166–68, 177, 181
on American acquisitions of Shakespeariana, 105, 134, 135–36, 157, 162–63, 166–67, 209
death of, 168
Folger contacted by, 167, 223
Folger outed by, 166
on Turbutt (Bodleian) First Folio, 152, 158, 166
on Vincent First Folio, 116, 117–18, 121, 124, 128, 136, 142, 166–67, 217
Lee Census, 109–12, 115, 128, 133, 136, 142, 152, 166–68, 185, 220
Leeds, Duke of, 186
Leigh, Lord, 186
Lenox Library, 210, 243
Lewis, C., 169
Libbie, Charles F., 164
Library Company of Philadelphia, 72
Library of Congress, 212, 227, 239, 248, 250
Life and Death of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, The (misattributed to Shakespeare), 58
Lightbulb, invention of, 86
Lincoln, Abraham, 77, 80, 89, 212
Lincoln Memorial, 251, 266, 268
Literacy rate (in Shakespearian England), 39
Literary Digest, The, 199
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (Plutarch), 264
Lodge, Thomas, 5
London Prodigal, The (misattributed to Shakespeare), 58
Lord Chamberlain’s Men, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19, 24
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare), 12, 14, 53, 168, 249
Love’s Labour’s Wonne (attributed to Shakespeare), 53
Lowell, James Russell, 87
Luce, Robert, 229, 233–34
Lucrece (Shakespeare), 15
Lund
University, 147, 148–49
Lusitania (ship), 190
Lyly, John, 47
Lyly, Thomas, 5
Mabbe, James, 49
Macbeth (Shakespeare), xv, 14, 29, 33, 52, 72, 74, 154
MacMonnies, Frederick William, 247–48
Macready, William Charles, 70, 73–75
Madan, Falconer, 153–55
Maggs Bros., 146, 173, 200–202, 274
Magnolia Petroleum, 175–76
Malone, Edmond, 68, 70
Manufacturing Book A (Folger), 88
Marlowe, Christopher, 1, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 27, 47, 264
Marquand, Henry G., 178
Marsden Perry Library, 241
Marston, John, 23
Martin, Panlin, 186
Martin, W. L., 187
Master of the Revels, 10, 28
Mather, Increase, 72
Mayhew, A. H., 184–87, 188
McClure’s magazine, 112, 113, 145
McCormick, Robert, 237
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare), xv, 13, 14, 52, 144, 258
Meisei University, 272
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), 13, 14, 22, 97, 168, 247
Meres, Francis, 15
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare), 14, 22, 93, 144, 146, 218
Middleton, Thomas, 14
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare), 12, 22, 168, 247, 248
Milton, John, 58
Minnehaha (ship), 92
Monks (letters), 42
Montgomery, Bernard, 224
Montgomery, Earl of, 46–47, 254
Morgan, John Pierpont, Jr., 178
Morgan, John Pierpont, Sr., xiv, 78, 136, 157, 170, 173, 178, 183, 209, 224, 280
Morgan Library, 178
Morning Leader, 158–59
Morning Post, 159
Mossman, W. B., 198
Mount Vernon, Virginia, 73
Mowery, Franklin, 322n9
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, published according to the True Originall copies, xiv, 21, 46
Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare), 19
Mulberry tree relics, 67, 218, 334n9
Murray, John, 186
Mussolini, Benito, 224
Nashe, Thomas, 5, 8–10
Nassau Country Club, 199, 200, 226
National Geographic, 214
National Memorial Arch, 238
Navarro Refining, 175
Newcastle, Duke of, 186
Newdegate, Francis Alexander, 186
Newhauser couple (Grant Row holdouts), 222
New Place (Shakespeare’s home), 13, 15, 18
New York Public Library, 189, 235, 268
New York Times, 112, 135–36, 146–47, 173, 176, 177, 182, 183, 195, 196, 197–98, 235, 237, 245, 256, 258, 260, 261, 262
New York Times Book Review, 158
Nicholson, E. W. B., 155, 157, 158, 159–60, 161
Normandy rag paper, 39, 100
North, Sir Thomas, 264
Northampton, Marquis of, 186
Octavos, 62–63, 64, 68
Ode (Garrick piece), 66
Oil industry, 77, 84, 189, 326n27. See also Standard Oil Company
One Hundred Years of American Commerce, 1795–1895, 93
On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History (Carlyle), 87
On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 110
Original Shakespearian Actors, 201
Ornaments (printers’), 49
Othello (Shakespeare), 13, 14, 19, 144
Outlook, The, 143, 220
Ovid, 264
Oxford facsimile, 110
Oxford University, 63
Pan American Union Building, 238
Panic of 1873, 81
Panic of 1907, 170, 190, 191
Paper, 25–26, 39, 40, 100
Parker, William, Jr., 73
Parrot bookshop, 15, 52
Passionate Pilgrim, The (misattributed to Shakespeare), 13–14, 22, 35, 197
Paternoster Row, 35, 60
Pauncefort-Duncombe, Sir Everard Philip Digby, 187
Pavier, Thomas, 22, 36, 195
Pavier Quarto. See False Folio
Payne, Roger, 184
Payne, Thomas, 69
Pearson and Co., 149
Pease, Arthur Stanley, 265
Pease, Mrs. J. W., 186
Peckham, William Clark, 78
Peele, George, 5
Pembroke, Earl of, 46–47, 183, 254
Penny public, 7
Pepys, Samuel, 58, 61, 164, 324n5
Pericles (Shakespeare), 14, 22, 36, 52, 58–59
Perry, Marsden J., 94, 157, 170, 179, 183, 191–96, 200, 215–16, 220
Lee and, 166
sale of collection, 192–96, 329n6
Vincent First Folio offered to, 136, 137
Petrarch, 10
“Petroleum: Its Production and Products” (Folger), 93
Phelps, William, 186
Phillips, Augustine, 201
Piccirilli Brothers, 268
Pickering & Chatto, 145, 181–82
Pickford, Mary, 165
Pickover, Alexander, 186
Pittsburgh Plan, 327n27
Plague, 4, 10–11, 58
Plays of William Shakespeare (Johnson), 64
Plimpton, George Arthur, 265, 266
Plutarch, 264
Plymouth, Massachusetts, 72
Poetry (Shakespeare’s), xv, 10, 15
Poets’ Corner, 4, 17
Polk, James, 74
Pollard, Alfred W., 116, 121
Pope, Alexander, 63, 65
Pope-Hoe First Folio, 95
Pratt, Charles, 77, 81, 82–84, 87, 88, 199, 274
Pratt, Charles Millard, 77, 78, 80, 81, 83, 89, 182, 199, 226, 230, 237
Pratt, George Dupont, 237
Pratt, Herbert, 230
Pratt, Lily Richardson, 89
Pratt’s Spirit (gasoline), 83
Preliminaries, 37, 46–49, 55–56, 108, 201
Presentation copies. See Vincent First Folio
Prices
of Burdett-Coutts First Folios, 219
of Devonshire collection, 183
of False Folio (Pavier Quarto), 193–99, 206, 214, 256, 333n10
of First Folios, xiv, 68–70, 95, 99, 108, 114, 143, 144, 145, 146, 151, 170, 171, 173, 177, 181, 182, 183–84, 188, 190, 214, 217, 221–22, 223, 226, 241, 317–20
of folio set, 164
of Fourth Folios, xiv, 90
of Gilburne First Folio, 201, 202
of Gott First Folio, 172
of Gutenberg Bible, 173, 194
of Hargreaves First Folio, 171–72
of Perry collection items, 194, 195, 215, 216
of Titus quarto, 112, 150
of Vincent First Folio, 138–39, 149, 155, 217
of Warwick collection, 97, 108
of Williams First Folio, 273
Prince of Tyre (Shakespeare), 22
Progressive movement, 180
Prompt books, 28–30, 338n11
Proof pages, 40, 144, 181
Proofreaders’ marks, 40
Prynne, William, 37–38, 39, 323n6
Punch, 219–20
Puritan, The, or the Widow of Watling Street (misattributed to Shakespeare), 58
Puritans, 2, 5, 32, 34, 38, 58, 72
Putnam, Brenda, 248–49, 255, 273
Putnam, Herbert, 227–30, 232–34, 236, 248
Quaritch, Bernard, 105, 171–72, 177, 181, 183, 250
Quartos, 13, 24–25, 36, 96, 191
Capell’s edition of, 64
categories of, 30
characteristics of, 11–12
Devonshire collection, 192, 329n6, 330n2
eight-volume collection of, 68
Gott collection, 168–69, 338n11
Hamlet, 148, 330n2
Howe copy, 330n2, 338n11
Huth collection, 176–77
Macbeth, 72
Pavier (see False F
olio)
Perry collection, 195
Pope’s edition of, 63
as sources for First Folio, 30–32
Titus Andronicus (see Titus quarto)
Venus and Adonis, 197–98, 262
Warwick collection, 96, 97
Quires, 41, 46, 102
Quoins, 40
Railton, Alexander B., 132–34
Burdett-Coutts First Folios and, 132–33, 134, 218
Vincent First Folio and, 115–23, 126–27, 129, 130, 134, 137–38, 141–42
Warwick collection and, 96–97
Rape of Lucrece, The (Shakespeare), 11
Raynoldes, William, 18
Recto (front of sheet), 41
Register of Copies, 51–52
“Remarks at the Celebration of the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Shakespeare” (Emerson), 81–82
Restoration England, 32, 58
Revolutionary War, 69, 72, 73
Reynolds, Joshua, 68
Richard III (Shakespeare), 12, 19, 25, 72, 144, 247, 268, 333n10
Richmond, George H., 146
Robinson, John, 92, 171, 176
Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler, 84
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 178, 197, 224
Rockefeller, John D., Sr., xiv, 83–88, 92, 131, 132, 178, 182, 209, 210, 274, 280
antitrust case and, 175
factors accounting for success of, 84–86
Folger’s relationship with, 89–90, 91, 112, 184, 197, 199–200, 220, 232
Folger urges Shakespeariana purchase, 93–94, 98, 191
golf played by, 199–200
relationship with competitors, 326–27n27
research and development supported by, 326n25
semi-retirement of, 94
Tarbell’s hatred of, 112–13, 145
Roden, Robert F., 135–36
Rogers, H. H., 83, 86, 88
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 12, 19, 25, 30, 58, 72, 97, 154, 168, 181, 268, 334n11
Romney, George, 68
Roosevelt, Franklin, 224
Roosevelt, Theodore, 180
Rosenbach, Abraham Simon Wolf, 181, 188, 192–98, 214–16, 223, 241, 251, 255
Burdett-Coutts First Folios and, 219
False Folio and, 193–98, 216, 256
on Folger library collection, 262–63, 264
monograph on Folger, 256
personality of, 195–96
Rose theater, 6
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 87
Rowe, Nicholas, 62–63, 64, 68
Roxburghe, Duke of, 69
Roxburghe library sale, 218
Ruskin, John, 87
Russell Senate Office Building, 239
Russian Revolution, 180, 190
Sadler, Hamnet, 18
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 247
Sales, F. S., 231–32
Salisbury, Frank, 224–26, 252, 260, 277
Sargent, George H., 235–36
Saunders Library, 70
Schiller, Friedrich, 87
Second Folio(s), 164
Collier Fraud, 70–71
errors in, 57, 61
First Folio superiority to, 59, 64
Pope’s quarto based on, 63