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Excerpt from The Timon Plays There is no evidence to show where the play was acted. Dyce remarks, certainly never performed in the metropolis. It is dangerous to dispute with so careful a scholar, yet in view of the absence of all external evidence, I must believe from the na ture of the play that it was written for presentation ih' London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Joseph Quincy Adams was born on March 23, 1881 in Greenville, South Carolina, United States, the first of three sons of Rev. Joseph Quincy Adams and Mamie Fouchée Davis, both natives of South Carolina. His father was a Southern Baptist minister who held pastorates during the 1880's in a succession of South Carolina towns and then in Asheville and Wadesboro, North Carolina. Joseph's mother died when he was in his teens.
Adams' early schooling must have been irregular because of the family's frequent moves, but in due course he attended Wake Forest College, taking the A. B. degree with honors in 1900 and the M. A. in 1901.
After graduate study at the University of Chicago (1902-1903) under John Matthews Manly, at Cornell University (1903-1904) under James Morgan Hart, and at the University of London (1904-1905), Adams received the Ph. D. degree in 1906 from Cornell, where in 1905 he had been appointed an instructor in English.
He studied at the University of Berlin in the summer of 1907.
In 1902 Adams served as principal of the Raleigh (North Carolina) Male Academy.
In 1905 he had been appointed an instructor in English at Cornell.
In 1909 he became assistant professor at Cornell and in 1919, professor.
Adams gave early promise of a productive scholarly career when in 1904 he published the first of his many contributions to learned journals. Within a few years he had acquired a thorough knowledge of both the English stage and the English drama from the beginnings through the eighteenth century, as well as of sixteenth-century nondramatic literature. His productivity and the soundness of his scholarship were due in great part to self-discipline and the systematic gathering of material.
Soon after he joined the Cornell teaching staff, finding the university library inadequate for his needs, Adams secured a grant of several thousand dollars to spend at his discretion for additions to the library. So productive were the results that the grant was increased several times, and Cornell's resources for the study of Renaissance drama and theatrical history attained outstanding excellence.
Among Adams' works, four, published within a span of eight years, established his international reputation: Shakespearean Playhouses: A History of English Theatres from the Beginning to the Restoration (1917), The Dramatic Records of Sir Henry Herbert (1917), A Life of William Shakespeare (1923), which was highly regarded and was several times reprinted, and Chief Pre-Shakespearean Dramas (1924). These attracted students to the Cornell English department, where Adams' gifts of organization and style made his lectures popular, and the breadth of his knowledge and the ability to impart it drew many graduate students to enroll under his guidance. As director of dissertations and graduate studies he was unfailingly generous with his time, and he had the knack of communicating to his students something of his scholarly integrity.
In 1931 Adams announced his decision to leave Cornell and accept the position of supervisor of research at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C. The wealth of Shakespearean materials in this institution, then just taking shape as directed by the will of Henry Clay Folger, and the promise of having a major hand in its future development seemed to Adams an opportunity not to be missed. Folger had left an unparalleled collection for the study of Shakespeare and his times, together with a building, still unfinished in 1931, to house it. Though himself interested solely in Shakespeare, Folger had yet seen that an understanding of Shakespeare must rest on a knowledge of his age, and had collected thousands of early books and manuscripts broadly illustrative of that period.
Soon after assuming his new duties, Adams saw that the breadth of Folger's collecting had made the library valuable for students of the English Renaissance in general, and that future expansion must be in this direction. During the first years of the Folger Library, the Great Depression made Folger's ample endowment virtually unproductive and prevented Adams from taking advantage of the rich buyers' market in books. But by 1937 financial conditions were improving, and Adams, who had been elevated to the directorship in 1934, saw a great opportunity.
The death of the noted collector Sir Leicester Harmsworth suggested the remote possibility of obtaining his collection of early English books--the largest ever gathered by one man. With the vigor and imagination that he had exhibited as a Cornell instructor, Adams persuaded the Harmsworth heirs to sell and the trustees of the Folger Library to raise the necessary funds to buy. In the end he carried away the prize from under the noses of other and more affluent contestants, including Harvard University. It was a coup that placed the Folger second only to the British Museum for its collection of English books printed before 1641.
In the same year, 1938, Adams added to the library the important Loseley Collection of theatrical manuscripts of the sixteenth century and a collection of Dryden unequaled elsewhere. These were the major purchases, but Adams believed that market conditions not likely to endure offered the last chance to acquire significant numbers of Renaissance books, and for the next few years he devoted his energies mainly to their purchase, until the outbreak of World War II dried up the sources. The task he had marked out for himself was finished.
In 1944 Adams suffered a heart attack that imposed on him a slower pace, and he died two years later, at the age of sixty-five, in Washington. He was buried in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery.
Adams was known as a prominent Shakespeare scholar, he wrote and published a wide range of books and scholarly articles and was especially noted for his biography of Shakespeare. Adams was instrumental in the foundation and development of the Folger Shakespeare Library, of which he was the first director.
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Adams had never allowed himself the luxury of family life until the age of forty-nine, when, on January 29, 1931, he married Helen Banks of Ithaca, New York. She died four years later. They had one daughter, Helen Banks.
