One of two friends and fellow actors in Shakespeare's company who published the First Folio of his collected works in 1623, seven years after the dramatist's death. It would have been in part a tribute to their old colleague, but as actors rather than writers these men may also have hoped for some commercial value in bringing out in book form plays often thought of simply as theatrical properties. Shakespeare left them bequests of 26 shillings and 8 pence apiece to buy memorial rings.