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2 unusual facts about Folger Shakespeare Library


Grace Cavalieri

She received the inaugural Columbia Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library Poetry Committee for "significant contribution to poetry."

John William Wright

Note: John William Wright and John Massey Wright (1777–1866) have been frequently confused with each other (according to the Folger Shakespeare Library), as they both worked for Charles Heath and their birth and death dates overlap.


Ashbourne portrait

The painting was auctioned at Sotheby's in 1928, and sold for £1,000 ($5,000) to Eustace Conway, an American lawyer, who in turn sold it to Henry Clay Folger's widow, Emily Jordan Folger in 1931, for the sum of $3,500, as a gift to the Folger Shakespeare Library, which opened the following year.

Matthew Brend

It has been claimed, on the basis of a document at the Folger Shakespeare Library, that immediately upon the expiration of the lease on Lady Day 1644, i.e. 25 March 1644, Sir Matthew Brend took possession of the Globe and had it pulled down.

Peggy O'Brien

Peggy O'Brien PhD is the CEO of The Great Teaching Project, a board member of the Association of American Colleges and Universities and SAGE Publications, and a resident consultant at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.


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F. Curtis Canfield

Among other assignments, he directed the 1949 WNBW production of Julius Caesar produced by his Amherst, Masquers to open the Folger Shakespeare Library Theater in Washington DC.