The Folgers’ First Folios

IF 0.4 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-09-11 DOI:10.1080/17450918.2023.2254278
Zoltán Márkus
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The Folger Shakespeare Library has 82 copies of First Folios, which is more than a third of the surviving total of 235 copies in the world. The married couple Henry and Emily Folger acquired these copies between 1893 and 1928. Most of the available posthumous narratives that discuss the Folgers’ zeal for collecting First Folios concentrate primarily on Henry Clay Folger’s biography and financial backing of the couple’s book collecting project. Only secondarily, if at all, is the focus on Emily Jordan Folger’s contribution to the collection. By calling attention to her Master’s thesis ‘The True Text of Shakespeare’, completed at Vassar College in 1896, this article suggests that greater acknowledgment of Emily Jordan Folger and her role in the collaboration is not just an ethical obligation but also helps us understand the intellectual framework of the Folgers’ seemingly compulsive efforts to collect, above all, multiple copies of the First Folio. This understanding, furthermore, casts light on the Bardolatrous reverence of the First Folio as a fetishistic cultural embodiment of ‘The True Text of Shakespeare’ in late nineteenth century USA.
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福尔杰的第一本对开本
福尔杰莎士比亚图书馆有82本《第一对开本》,占世界上现存的235本的三分之一以上。已婚夫妇亨利和艾米丽·福尔杰在1893年至1928年间获得了这些复制品。关于福尔杰夫妇收藏《第一对开本》的热情,现有的大部分遗书主要集中在亨利·克莱·福尔杰的传记和对这对夫妇藏书项目的经济支持上。艾米莉·乔丹·福尔杰(Emily Jordan Folger)对该系列的贡献是次要的,如果有的话。通过关注她1896年在瓦萨学院完成的硕士论文《莎士比亚的真实文本》,这篇文章表明,更多地承认艾米丽·乔丹·福尔杰及其在合作中的作用不仅是一种道德义务,而且还有助于我们理解福尔杰夫妇似乎强迫性地努力收集《第一对开本》的智力框架。此外,这种理解还揭示了19世纪后期美国对《第一对开本》作为“莎士比亚真实文本”的拜物教文化体现的Bardolatrous崇敬。
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期刊介绍: Shakespeare is a major peer-reviewed journal, publishing articles drawn from the best of current international scholarship on the most recent developments in Shakespearean criticism. Its principal aim is to bridge the gap between the disciplines of Shakespeare in Performance Studies and Shakespeare in English Literature and Language. The journal builds on the existing aim of the British Shakespeare Association, to exploit the synergies between academics and performers of Shakespeare.
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