Sean Gibson’s Reviews > The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger's Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare's First Folio > Status Update

While sorting through the belongings of a deceased relative, I once found what appeared to be an original Shakespeare quarto.

Picking up the weathered text with shaking hands, I turned to the title page and read, "The Merry Knives of Windsor," which turned out to be a horribly written horror screenplay my great grandma wrote and made to look like an old publication.

Great Granny Stella was such an asshole.

I love the brevity and awkward phrasing of communicating by cable; I'm just going to start writing my work emails like that.

Fun fact: Folger's coffee was originally invented as a means of staying awake during Titus Andronicus.

It just makes me so sad that we'll likely never be able to recover the text for In the Teapot, the lost sequel to The Tempest, and Oh, Wait--There It Is, the lost sequel to Love's Labor's Lost. Such a shame.

I love how bootleg printers tried to foist knockoff Shakespeare folios on the unwitting (and largely illiterate populace), often by including some actual Shakespeare works alongside not-so-clever fakes.

You just know one of these cats was like, "YES. I am FINALLY going to publish my opus, "Royston Honeybun, Solicitor to Squirrels," and people will think it's by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.