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publication of, 57–58
in Warwick collection, 97
Sejanus (Jonson), 14, 19
Seneca, 264
“Seven Ages of Man” stained-glass window, 243, 247, 279
Shakespeare, Anne Hathaway, 4, 18, 63
Shakespeare, Hamnet, 4
Shakespeare, John, 4
Shakespeare, Judith, 4, 18, 63, 231
Shakespeare, Susanna. See Hall, Susanna
Shakespeare, William, 1–17. See also specific works of
absence of true text of work, 52–53
acting career of, 7, 9, 13, 14, 33
American apotheosis of, 72–73, 77
authorship of denied, 26–28, 45–46, 222
birth of, xv, 4
British apotheosis of, 57–71
coat of arms granted to family, 13, 53–55
collaborations of, 15–16
complete body of work, xv, 15
contemporary documents on, 27
death of, xv, 1–4, 17
difficulty of dating plays, 12
disappearance of original manuscripts, 24, 25–26, 27
early life of, 4
European apotheosis of, 67
failure to authorize publication of works, 23–24
first printed version of a play, 11–12
Folger compared with, 279–80
future envisioned by, 280–81
handwriting examples of, 26
memorial bust of, 252, 279, 323n9
modern spelling of name accepted, 70
number of plays written by, xv, 15, 322n12
pirated versions of works, 11, 13–14, 15, 22, 30
portrait of (Ashbourne), 264, 337n8
portrait of (in folios), 44–46, 54–55, 61, 98, 101, 146, 181, 280
retirement of, 1, 15–16
Rowe’s biography of, 63
royal patent granted to troupe of, 14
silver bowl of, 231
tercentenary commemoration, 188
tombstone inscription, 3
variations in spelling of name, 43, 322n1
will of, 18, 25, 26
“Shakespeare and American Culture” (speech), 266
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, 73
Shakespeare Day (Germany), 67
Shakespeare festival, 67
“Shakespeare First Folio, The” (Lee), 135–36
Shakespeare First Folio, The: The History of the Book (West), xi
Shakespeare in Love (film), 13, 25
Shakespeare Jubilee, 64–67
“Shakespeare Reliques” (catalogue), 71, 97, 325n16
“Shakespeare Riot,” 75
Shakespeare Society, 70–71, 223
Shakespeariana
American acquisitions of, 73, 105–6, 134, 135–36, 157, 162–63, 166–67, 173, 182, 209, 219–20, 274
Emily’s expertise in, 95–96, 100, 102, 107
Folger as most famous collector of, 206
Folger’s collection of artworks, 220
Folger’s expertise in, 95, 99–102
Rockefeller urged to purchase, 93–94, 98, 191
storage of Folger’s collection, 99, 262, 263
value of Folger’s collection, 261
Shaw, George Bernard, 66
Sherman Antitrust Act, 91–92, 114, 328–29n1, 331n16
Shreve & Lamb, 237
Sibthorp, Coningsby, 115–32, 134, 135, 136–42, 148, 155, 169, 217, 221
eccentricity of, 119
Folger scolded by, 123–24
Folger’s counteroffer accepted by, 120–21
lineage of, 132
main reason for refusal to sell, 131
original asking price for folio, 118–19
secrecy desired by, 120–21
testing of market for folio, 136–37
Sides (actors’), 24, 29
Sidney, Sir Philip, 10
Slade, William A., 261, 269
Smethwick, John, 36, 244
Smethwick and Aspley et al., 57
Smith, Donald Alexander (Lord Strathcona), 159, 160
Smith, George D., 99, 173, 197
Smith, Warren B., 177
Sonnets, xv, 15
Sonnet upon the Pitiful Burning of the Globe Playhouse in London, A, 19–20, 322n4
Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe), 67
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 186
Sotheby’s, 169, 171–72, 176, 181, 183, 197, 272, 273
Sotheran & Co., 133, 144, 146, 183, 191, 218
commissions from Folger, 141–42, 150
Gott collection and, 168–69
Titus quarto and, 148–51
Turbutt (Bodleian) First Folio and, 155–56, 158, 159, 160–62
250th anniversary of, 274
Vincent First Folio and, 115–27, 129, 131, 135, 136–43, 148
Warwick collection and, 96–97, 98, 115
Southampton, Earl of. See Wriothesley, Henry
South Improvement Company Plan, 327–28n27
Spanish Tragedy (Kyd), 5
Spenser, Edmund, 4, 17, 47
St. Faith’s Chapel, 60
St. Mary Aldermanbury, 11, 19, 275, 276
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 15, 35, 59, 60, 61, 168, 274
Standard (London), 147–48, 150–51, 156, 161
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 171, 174–75
Standard Oil Company, 83–88, 183, 192, 268, 274
antitrust case against, 171, 173, 174–75, 184, 331–32n15,16,18
antitrust legislation and, 91–92, 114, 328–29n1, 331n16
cartels, attempt to form, 113, 327–28n27
dissolution of, 175–76, 190
Folger’s career at, 88, 89–90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 104, 106, 109, 114, 115, 131–32, 145, 170, 171, 174–76, 177, 182, 206, 221, 236
Folger’s retirement from, 230–32, 257
improvements made in industry, 84–86, 326–27n25,27
Pratt’s merger with, 83–84
railroads and, 85, 327n27
stock of, 112, 182, 226, 258, 261, 327n27, 328n27, 336n2
Tarbell’s attack on, 112–14, 145
during World War I, 190
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, 88, 170, 231, 261
Standard Oil Company of New York, 170, 175, 190, 231, 261, 274
Stationers’ Company, 11, 22, 23, 36, 43, 51–52, 53, 153
Stationer’s Register, 15
Stevens, George, 68
Stewart, A. B., 183
Stock market crash of 1929, 250, 251, 255, 257, 261, 336–37n2
Stratford-upon-Avon, 1, 4, 13, 15, 73, 252
considered as Folger library location, 209, 211
first performance of a Shakespeare play in, 63
Folger’s visit to, 142
Shakespeare Jubilee in, 65–67
“Superlative, The, or Mental Temperance” (Emerson), 81
Supreme Court Building, 240, 268
Taft, William Howard, 268, 332n24
Tamburlaine (Marlowe), 5
Taming of the Shrew (film), 165
Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare), 12, 52
Tarbell, Ida Minerva, 112–14, 145
Teenage Apprentice, 43
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), xv, 14, 44, 52, 58, 144, 154
Teutonic, SS, 97
Theater
in America, 72, 73–75, 325n18
Blackfriars, 14
Broadway, 74
in England, 2, 5–7, 10, 32, 34, 58
of Folger library, 246, 265, 278
Folger’s love of, 164–66
Garden, 165
Globe (see Globe Theatre)
Rose, 6
Theater, the (playhouse), 5–6
Theatre of Honour and Knight-Hood (Favyn), 49
Theobald, Lewis, 63
Third Folio(s), 58–61, 164
apocryphal plays in, 58–59, 63
in Bodleian Library, 153, 154
errors in, 61
First Folio’s superiori
ty to, 59, 64
publication of, 58–59
rarity of, 59
in Warwick collection, 97
Thompson, Sir Edward Maunde, 116
Thorpe, Thomas, 15
Tice & Lynch, Inc., 250
Tilney, Edmund, 10
Times (London), 157, 159
Timon of Athens (Shakespeare), 52
Titanic (ship), 180, 181, 211
Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare), 8, 29, 144
Titus quarto, 112, 146–51, 158, 160, 162, 199, 236, 262, 278, 330n2
discovery of, 146–47
printing of, 11–12
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 73
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, 251, 268
Tomkinson, Michael, 186
“To the Christian Reader” (Prynne), 323n6
“To the Great Variety of Readers” (prefatory letter to First Folio), 21, 35
“To the Memorie of M.W. Shake-speare” (Mabbe), 49
“To the Memorie of the deceased Authour Maister W. Shake-speare” (Digges), 48–49
“To the Memory of My Beloved, Mr. William Shakespeare and what he hath left us” (Jonson), 47–48
“To the Reader” (Jonson), 45–46
Tragedy of Locrine, The (misattributed to Shakespeare), 58
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm, 220
Tribune Tower, 237
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare), 14, 36, 42–43, 182, 218
Trowbridge, Alexander, 239, 240, 241, 242–43, 244–46, 247, 248, 250, 251, 252, 254, 255, 265
background of, 237–38
publicity desired by, 244–45
Trowbridge & Ackerman, 237
Truman, Harry, 224
Turbutt, Gladwyn, 152, 155–56, 158, 159, 160
Turbutt, Gladwyn M. R., 152
Turbutt (Bodleian) First Folio, 152–63, 166, 169, 201, 209, 219
binding of, 152–53
condition of, 154
copy sent to Bodleian Library, 53, 153
copy sold by Bodleian Library, 59, 154
Folger’s failure to acquire, 160–62, 164, 167
Folger’s offers for, 155, 160
library fundraiser for, 156–60
Twain, Mark, 177–78
Tweedmouth, Lord, 151–52
Tweedmouth Copy (First Folio), 151–52
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), xv, 14, 52, 281
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (Shakespeare), 12, 52, 144
Two Noble Kinsmen, The (Shakespeare and Fletcher), 16, 53, 321n3, 322n12
Typeface (First Folio), 39–40
Tyrranius Rufinus, 322n8
Union Street Railroad Company, 191
Union Trust Company, 191
“Unique First Folio, A” (Folger), 143
United States Steel Corporation, 178
University of Chicago, 94, 209
University of Wits, 5
Unsophisticated book copies, 101
Unwashed pages, 100–101, 172
“Upon the Lines and Life of the Famous Scenicke Poet, Master William Shakespeare” (Holland), 48
Van Antwerp, William C., 181
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 178
Vanderbilt, William Henry, 178
Veblen, Thorstein, 180
Ventures and Adventures in Collecting (Folger’s unwritten memoir), 267
Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare), 11, 15, 197–98, 262, 333n10
Versailles, Treaty of, 190
Verso (back of sheet), 41
Vertical integration, 84, 85–86, 113
Victoria, Queen of England, 218
Vincent, Augustine, 49–50, 54–55, 116
Vincent First Folio, 114–32, 133, 134, 135, 136–43, 146, 148, 149, 154, 155, 156, 160, 161, 166–67, 172–73, 191, 193, 194, 195, 199, 201, 218, 219, 225, 235–36, 262, 273
catalogue number of, 142
condition of, 116–17, 121–22
dealer’s commission on, 141–42
Folger divulges ownership of, 220–21
Folger’s acquisition of, 138–40
Folger’s article on, 143
as Folger’s breakthrough purchase, 140
Folger’s lessons from loss of, 131–32
Folger’s negotiations for, 118–19
Folger’s renaming of, 142
Folger’s renegotiation attempts, 121–31
history of, 53–55
Sibthorp’s letter to Lee about, 217
Volpone (Jonson), 19
Waldseemüller map, 56
Walker, R. J., 186
Walley, Henry, 42, 43
Warburton, William, 63
Ward, John, 2
Warner, Mr., 116
Warwick, Earl of, 71, 97, 254
Warwick Castle collection, 96–98, 108, 112, 115, 117, 337–38n11
Washed pages, 100–101
Washington, George, 68, 73
Washington Post, 265–66
Washington Times, 267
Watermarks, 39, 102
Watson, T. E., 186
Watson’s Flats, Pennsylvania, 84
Webster, John, 28
Wells, Gabriel, 202–4
Welsh, Alexander G., 213, 254, 255, 257, 266, 334n6
West, Anthony James, xi, 105
Western Daily Press, 158
Westminster Abbey, 4, 17, 170
Whaling industry, 76, 83, 84, 86
White, Edward, 174, 331–32n18
White Devil, The (Webster), 28
Widener, Henry Elkins, 173, 181
Widener, Joseph, 173, 195, 216
Wildgoose, William, 153
Williams, Daniel, 272–73
Williams, Misses, 186
Windsor Herald of Arms, 54
Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare), xv, 14, 15, 52, 144, 219, 241
Wood, R. H., 187
Workes (Jonson), 37–38
World Magazine, The, 198
World War I, 173, 180, 182, 187, 188, 189–90
World War II, 276, 278
Wotton, Sir Henry, 16
Wriothesley, Henry (Earl of Southampton), 11, 254
Yale University, 72
Yorkshire Tragedy, A (misattributed to Shakespeare), 22, 58
Zouche, Lord, 186
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Mays, Andrea E.
The millionaire and the bard : Henry Folger’s obsessive hunt
for Shakespeare’s first folio / by Andrea E. Mays.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Folger, Henry Clay, 1857–1930. 2. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616—Bibliography—Folios. 1623. 3. Book collectors—New York (State)—New York—Biography. 4. Millionaires—New York (State)—New York—Biography. 5. New York (N.Y.)—Commerce—History.
6. New York (N.Y.)—Intellectual life. 7. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616. 8. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616—Friends and associates. 9. Publishers and publishing—England—London—History—17th century. 10. London (England)—Intellectual life—
17th century. I. Title.
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