Crosby, Joseph
(c 1825–1891)
grocer, claims adjuster, bankrupt, fugitive, and Shakespearean scholar
Biographical information
John W. Velz, “Joseph Crosby and the Shakespeare Scholarship of the Nineteenth Century,” Shakespeare Quarterly 27:3 (1976) 316–328: owned one of the three best private Shakespeare libraries in America; treated Shakespeare philologically
Gender
Articles
Writing as J. C.
Shakspeariana
NQ 5.7.464-465, Source