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Excerpt from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, With Annotations and a General Introduction, Vol. 2 of 20: Love's Labour's Lost, And, the Merchant of Venice 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, p...

Excerpt from Elizabethan Sonnets, Vol. 1Prefatory note, introduction 1. The Elizabethan sonnet-literature, II. The Supremacy Of Petrarch, III. The Sonnet in sixteenth-century Italy, xviii IV, The Sonnet in sixteenth-century France.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state...

Excerpt from The Perspective of Biography 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 th...

Excerpt from The Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 3In person he was fair, and rather below the middle height, he 'was simple in his tastes, ' a most genial companion, ' and pos sessed 'an inexhaustible fund of informa tion' (cooke). Portraits appeared in Elec trician, ' Xliv. 457, and the Electrical Re view, ' xlvi. 185, 186.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.for...

Excerpt from A Shakespeare Reference LibraryShakespeare Apocrypha: being a collection of fourteen plays which have been ascribed to Shakespeare, with introduction, notes, and bibliography by C. F. Tucker Brooke. Clarendon Press. 53. Net.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses...

Excerpt from Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, TragediesSteevens's comment on this incident was to the effect that the First Folio had become 'the most expensive single book in our language.', Much followed to corroborate this opinion. A year or two afterwards Payne of the Mews Gate by Charing Cross made over a First Folio to the zealous virtuoso, Constantine Jennings, for no less a sum than seventy guineas. In 1812, when the Duke of Roxburghe...

Excerpt from The Chronicle History of King Leir, The Original of Shakespeare's King Lear: Edited The same significance which belongs to Henslowe's con temporary venture of Tbs Tamyings of A Sbrows, attaches to his Kings Lsars. Henslowe's [finge Lsars laid the foundation on which Shakespeare built a dozen years later the stupendous tragedy which is known by the same title. The play of 1594 was the clay out of which Shakespeare fashioned the mo...

Excerpt from Shakespeare's Life and Work: Being an Abridgment, Chiefly for the Use of Students, of a Life of William Shakespeare Editions of the poems in the poet's lifetime 163 Posthumous editions of the poems 163 The 'poems' of 1640 163 Quartos of the plays in the poet's lifetime Posthumous quartos of the plays 1623 The First Folio The pubhshing syndi cate 166 The prefatory matter 167 The value of the text 169 The order of the plays 169 The...

Excerpt from A Life of William Shakespeare I cannot promise 'my readers any startling revela tions. But my researches have enabled me to remove some ambiguities which puzzled my predecessors, and to throw light on one or two topics that have hitherto obscured the course of Shakespeare's career. Particulars that have not been before incorporated in Shakespeare's biography will be found in my treatment of the following subjects: the conditions ...

Excerpt from Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century The contents of this volume are based on a series of eight lectures which I delivered, by invitation of the Trustee, at the Lowell Institute, Boston, in the spring of last year. I paid a first visit to America for the purpose of fulfilling that engagement. My reception was in all ways of the pleasantest, and I feel especially grateful to my Boston audience for the considerate attention wh...

Excerpt from Shakespeare and the Modern Stage: With Other Essays In revising the work for the press, I have deemed it advisable to submit the papers to a somewhat rigorous verbal revision. Errors have been corrected. 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-...

Excerpt from Principles of Biography: The Leslie Stephen Lecture Delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge, on 13 May 1911 I appreciate very highly the honour which the electors have done me in conferring on me the office of Leslie Stephen Lecturer in this University. A word of respectful admiration seems due to the liberality of the electors in bestowing this dignity for the second time in succession on a graduate of the sister University. I...

Excerpt from Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance Italy set out on her modern career with advantages which she shared with no other part of Europe. Civilization in liberal meas ure illumined the land while mists of barbarism enveloped the rest of Europe. The intellect of ancient Italy was largely fertilized by forces older and more lucent than those of her own breeding: by the thought and style of Greece. But the native land of Vergil and...

Excerpt from Elizabethan Sonnets, Vol. 2: Newly Arranged and Indexed H pleasing thoughts, apprentices of love, Fore-runners of desire, sweet mithridates The poison of my sorrows to remove, With whom my hopes and fear full oft debates! Enrich yourselves and me by your self riches, Which are the thoughts you spend on heaven-bred beauty, Rouse you my muse beyond our poets' pitches, And, working wonders, yet say all is duty! Use you no eaglets' e...

Excerpt from Queen Victoria a Biography This work is based on the biographical notice of Queen Victoria which was published in the third Supplementary Volume of the Dictionary of National Biography' in October 1901. I undertook that article at the earnest request of the public-spirited proprietor of the Dictionary, the late Mr. George Smith, who impressed on me the imperative need of observing in the notice of the Queen that sense of proporti...

Excerpt from Notes Additions to the Census of Copies of the Shakespeare First FolioSupplementary efforts to describe copies that had found their way to America did not prove more exhaustive. Mr. Justin Winsor in 1875 gave very careful descriptions of eighteen copies in the United States of America, and in 1888 Mr. W. H. Fleming wrote very fully of thirteen copies in the city of New York.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of ...

Excerpt from Four Quarto: Editions of Plays by Shakespeare, the Property of the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace First Folio, Pericles was first associated with Shakespeare's collected works in an appendix to the Third Folio (of 1664). The separate quarto editions of the seventeen plays by Shakespeare, which were printed in his lifetime or before the issue of the First Folio, form, in the absence of his manuscripts, the mos...

Excerpt from The French Renaissance in England: An Account of the Literary Relations of England and France in the Sixteenth Century This volume is based on a series of six lectures which I delivered, under the title of 'the Literary Relations of England and France during the Sixteenth Century before the University of Oxford during the summer term of 1909. My thanks are due to the Delegates of the Common University F und, on whose invitation t...

Excerpt from Shakespeare's England: An Account of the Life Manners of His Age The purpose of this book is to describe the habits of the English people during Shakespeare's lifetime. The attempt would be worth making even if Shakespeare had never lived. It has been made in the belief that an understanding of the world he lived in is a step to the understanding of Shakespeare. Language is, no doubt, a great preservative, and Shakespeare speaks ...

Excerpt from The Alleged Vandalism at Stratford-on-AvonThis statement, a small part of Which has already appeared in the newspapers, treats of the action that has been officially taken by the Trustees of Shakespeare's birthplace and by the Corporation of Stratford - on-avon in regard to the disposition of certain buildings in Henley Street, which have been the subject of a long public controversy. It is common knowledge that that controversy w...