FIS Shakespeare_FISHER 16-01-06 1:55 PM Page 1 ‘So long lives this’: A Celebration of Shakespeare’s Life and Works, 1616-2016 FIS Shakespeare_FISHER 16-01-06 1:55 PM Page 2 FIS Shakespeare_FISHER 16-01-06 1:55 PM Page 3 ‘So long lives this’: A Celebration of Shakespeare’s Life and Works, 1616–2016 Exhibition & Catalogue by Scott Schofield Peter W.M.Blayney Alan Galey Marjorie Rubright With an introduction by Anne Dondertman THOMAS FISHER RARE BOOK LIBRARY University of Toronto 25 January–28 May FIS Shakespeare_FISHER 16-01-06 1:55 PM Page 4 Catalogue and exhibition by Peter Blayney, Alan Galey, Marjorie Rubright, and Scott Schofield General editor Scott Schofield Editors P.J. Carefoote, Anne Dondertman, and Philip Oldfield Exhibition designed and installed by Linda Joy Digital Photography by Paul Armstrong Catalogue designed by Stan Bevington Catalogue printed by Coach House Press isbn 9780772761170 (paper) isbn 9780772761187 (cloth) © 2016 University of Toronto Library library and archives canada cataloguing in publication ‘So long lives this’ : a celebration of Shakespeare’s life and works, 1616–2016 / exhibition & catalogue by Peter Blayney, Alan Galey, Marjorie Rubright, Scott Schofield ; with an introduction by Anne Dondertman. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the omas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto from January 25 to May 28, 2016. Includes bibliographical references. isbn 978-0-7727-6118-7 (hardback). isbn 978-0-7727-6117-0 (paperback) 1. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616AppreciationExhibitions. 2. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616InfluenceExhibitions. 3. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616Anniversaries, etc. Exhibitions. I. Dondertman, Anne, 1952-, writer of introduction II. omas Fisher Rare Book Library, issuing body, host institution III.Blayney, Peter W. M. 1944-Publication of Shakespeare. IV. Schofield, Scott James Inside the premises. V. Rubright, Marjorie Shakespeare’s tongues. VI. Galey, Alan, 1975- Mediation and imagination. PR2931.S64 2016 822.3'3 C2015-908137-8 [Here is the text for the verso of the title page of the trade edition:] e publication of this large format exhibition catalogue, with an extended print run, has been made possible through the generous support of Mark Andrews, and his company, Andrews Infrastructure. FIS Shakespeare_FISHER 16-01-06 1:55 PM Page 5 Table of Contents Table of Contents General Introduction and the Story of the Fısher Fırst Folio by Anne DondertmanGeneral Introduction and the Story of the Fısher Fırst 7 Folio by Anne Dondertman 7 chapter one e Publication of Shakespeare chapter one by Peter W. M. Blayneye Publication of Shakespeare by Peter Blayney 17 17 chapter two chapter two Inside the Premises: William JaggardInside andthe thePremises: Intricacies William Jaggard and the Intricacies of Printing in Early Seventeenth-Centuryof Printing in England Early Seventeenth-Century England by by Scott Schofield Scott Schofield 27 27 chapter three chapter three At Work: Imagining Shakespeare’sAt Work: Textual Imagining Engagements Shakespeare’s Textual Engagements by Scott Schofield by Scott Schofield 35 35 chapter Four chapter Four Shakespeare’s Tongues: Henry VShakespeare’sand the Babel Tongues: of English Henry V and the Babel of English by Marjorie Rubright by Marjorie Rubright 45 45 chapter Fıve chapter Fıve Shakespeare’s GlobalShakespeare’s Imagination: Global Imagination: e Stranger ‘of here and e Stranger ‘of here and everywhere,’everywhere,’ Othello, eOthello, Moor e of MoorVenice of Venice by Marjorie Rubright by Marjorie Rubright 56 55 chapter six chapter Mediationsix and Imagination: Shakespeare and the Book Mediation and Imagination:since the Nineteenth Century by Alan Galey 67 Shakespeare and the Book since the Nineteenth Century by Alan Galey Endnotes 65 81 Endnotes List of Books included in the exhibition 81 87 List of Books included in the exhibition Picture credits 87 89 Picture credits Author Biographies 89 90 Author Biographies Table of Jaggard imprints 90 91 Table of Jaggard imprints 91 FIS Shakespeare_FISHER16-01-061:55PMPage6 View of London, showing the Globe theatre (number 36), just to the left of Southwark Cathedral. FIS Shakespeare_FISHER 16-01-06 1:55 PM Page 7 General Introduction 28 May 2016. e story of how the Shakespeare collection came to Toronto will be told later in this introduction. and Although Shakespeare himself had no involvement in the e Story of the Fısher Fırst Folio publication of his collected plays, it has served him well. If the 1623 folio had not been published, about half of his plays would be unknown today, including Macbeth, Julius Caesar, e years between 2014 and 2016 have been busy ones for the As You like It, Twelfth Night, and e Tempest. Shakespeare Shakespeare industry as the 450th anniversary of Shake- was an actor as well as a playwright and he wrote his plays to speare’s birth, and this year the four hundredth anniversary be performed. His name heads the list of actors that appears of his death, inspire yet more books, exhibitions, and public as one of the preliminary pages in the Fırst Folio. and scholarly interest in one of the greatest writers in the Yet it is the plays in their written form that have largely English language. Perhaps the grandest of these projects is shaped our understanding of Shakespeare the man, and the entitled simply ‘Fırst Folio!’ and is a tour organized by the writer. It is Shakespeare’s texts, from the monu mentally Folger Shakespeare Library which will see copies of its Fırst important Fırst Folio of 1623 and the other three seven- Folios on display in museums, universities, public libraries, teenth-century folios, to the hundreds of editions over the and historical societies in all fifty states. e Folger Library next four centuries that have been our chief means of engag- holds more than a third of the 233 known copies of the Fırst ing with Shakespeare, not only in the English-speaking Folio – the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays pub- world, but around the globe. lished in 1623, seven years after his death. e Folger’s Folios e Fısher Library’s exhibition and catalogue, ‘So Long are not travelling to Canada but we are fortunate at the Lives is’: A Celebration of Shakespeare’s Life and Work, 1616– omas Fısher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto to 2016, explores that rich history through contributions by have the only copy of the Fırst Folio in the country.1 It, as four scholars who have generously given of their time and well as the Second (1632), ird (1664), and Fourth (1685) expertise. e catalogue begins with a chapter by Peter Folios along with many other key items in the Fısher collec- Blayney, freeman of the Stationers’ Company, and authority tions, will be on public display from 25 January through on the early London book trade. Blayney outlines the his- tory of the publication of the Fırst Folio and traces its progress through the printing house of William Jaggard. is is followed by a chapter by Scott Schofield, general edi- tor of the catalogue. Schofield is a book historian and scholar of Renaissance literature with particular expertise in the his- tory of reading. In his first chapter he further elaborates on the Jaggards and provides additional context on early seven- teenth-century printing. Schofield’s second chapter imag- ines the working life of Shakespeare the writer and reader through an examination of his sources and the print culture in which he lived and operated. Marjorie Rubright is a fem- inist scholar of Renaissance literature with particular expert- ise in early modern lexical culture as well as the period’s con- structions of race and ethnicity. Her chapters open onto the broader context of global trends and influences evident in Shakespeare’s plays through readings of Henry V and Othello. Rubright’s first chapter considers Henry V as part of a wide- spread cultural conversation about the defining limits of the English language, while her second chapter explores the boundlessness of Shakespeare’s global imagination by track- ing the ‘stranger of here and everywhere’ in Othello, on maps and atlases, and in costume− and emblem-books of the period. Alan Galey, whose research and teaching focuses on the history and future of books, concludes in the final chap- ter by examining Shakespeare and the book since the nine- teenth century, illustrating the ways in which Shakespeare continues to be reimagined in response to a changing world and our evolving understanding of Shakespeare as writer and iconic figure. e exhibition thus draws on a great diver- sity of material ranging across four centuries, highlighting the wonderful richness of the Fısher holdings. 7 FIS Shakespeare_FISHER 16-01-06 1:55 PM Page 8 8 Anne Dondertman Toronto in 1929, and had gone on to found a profitable elec- tronics firm, Radio Engineering Products. Sidney Fısher was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University in 1969. e connection to Toronto was also through their great-grandfather, omas Fısher, an early settler who came from Yorkshire in 1821 and established the first grist and saw mills on the Humber River.3 It was in recognition of the Fısher brothers’ remarkable gift that the new Library was named the omas Fısher Rare Book Library. e acquisi- tion immediately put Toronto in the front ranks of rare book libraries in Canada. e Fısher Library is still the only insti- tution in the country to own a Fırst Folio, and the rich and wide-ranging Shakespeare collection in which it is embed- ded remains one of our great strengths. e Shakespeare portion of the donation consisted of Sidney (left) and Charles Fısher with Marion Brown, the head of books that Shakespeare would have used as sources, the four the department of rare books and special collections at the seventeenth-century folio editions, the later eighteenth and official opening of the omas Fısher Rare Book Library in 1973 nineteenth-century editions, as well as works describing England and London in Shakespeare’s day.