Excerpt from Shakspere's Plays: The Separate Editions of With the Alterations Done by Various Hands

The immense popularity of the works of Shakspere is most clearly shown by the very great number of editions which have been brought out, numbering not less than 542 in his native language, and also by the multitudinous editions of his Plays which have been separately pub lished. The universality of knowledge contained in the dramas of Shakspere - their thorough development of humanity, possessing as they do more actual wisdom than the whole body of English learning - have won for them the highest appreciation and general acceptance. Not only in the country of his birth, but throughout Europe - even in the far East and the cold North - have the Plays of Shakspere found readers and translators.

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