Download or read book The England of Shakespeare Classic Reprint written by P. H. Ditchfield and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The England of Shakespeare Shakespeare is known and read of all men, especially at the present time. He lived in what has been called a Great Age, and great it was in many ways which I have attempted to show in these pages. He reflects more than any one else the thought and spirit of that age. If we would understand his writings, his spirit, his humanity, it is necessary to know something about his times, the people he used to meet, the social customs that prevailed, the England he loved. He took a keen interest in the events of his period, and in the lives and characters of those who dwelt around him. He had great sympathy for ordinary common folk. He knew how "to suffer fools gladly." The stupidity of Dogberry and Verges, the swaggering of the swashbuckler, the sturdy yeoman and farmer, the merchant and the labourer, the ale-wife and the milkmaid, all interested him. He loved to draw out their old stories and to read their characters. 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.

Download or read book Shakespeare s England Classic Reprint written by William Winter and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare's England Beautiful and storied scenes that have soothed and elevated the mind naturally inspire a feeling of gratitude. Prompted by that feeling the present author has written this record of his rambles in England. It was his wish, in dwelling upon the rural loveliness and the literary and historical associations of that delightful realm, to afford sympathetic guidance and useful suggestion to other American travelers who, like himself, might be attracted to roam among the shrines of the mother land. 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.

Download or read book William Shakespeare Classic Reprint written by Victor Hugo and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from William Shakespeare Has understood. He has not hesitated to take every avenue of approach to these complex ques tions of art and of civilization, varying the horizon as the perspective shifted, and accepting every hint supplied by the urgency of the task. From such an enlarged conception of the subject this book has sprung. 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.

Download or read book Shakespeare and England Classic Reprint written by Sir Walter Raleigh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare and England There is nothing new and important to be said of Shakespeare. In recent years antiquaries have made some additions to our know ledge of the facts of his life. These additions are all tantalizing and comparatively insignificant. The history of the publication of his works has also become clearer and more intelligible, especially by the labours of Mr. Pollard; but the whole question of quartos and folios remains thorny and difficult, so that no one can reach any definite conclusion in this matter without a liberal use of conjecture. I propose to return to the old catholic doctrine which has been illuminated by so many disciples of Shakespeare, and to speak of him as our great national poet. He embodies and exemplifies all the virtues, and most of the faults, of England. Any one who reads and understands him understands England. This method of studying Shakespeare by reading him has perhaps gone somewhat out of vogue in favour of more roundabout ways of approach, but it is the best method for all that. Shakespeare tells us more about himself and his mind than we could learn even from those who knew him in his habit as he lived, if they were all alive and all talking. To learn what he tells we have only to listen. I think there is no national poet, of any great nation whatsoever, who is so completely representative of his own people as Shake speare is representative of the English. There is certainly no other English poet who comes near to Shakespeare in embodying our character and our foibles. No one, in this connexion, would venture even to mention Spenser or Milton. Chaucer is English, but he lived at a time when England was not yet completely English, so that he is only half-conscious of his nation. Wordsworth is English, but he was a recluse. Browning is English, but he lived apart or abroad, and was a tourist of genius. The most English of all our great men of letters, next to Shakespeare, is certainly Dr. Johnson. 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.

Download or read book Shakespeare and Germany written by Alois Brandl and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shakespeare s London Classic Reprint written by Henry Thew Stephenson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare's London So much time and study have been given of late to the surroundings of Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists, that everything in connection with Elizabethan times is of considerable interest to a large class of people. Though it is true that many, if not most, of the following facts are to be found in modern works or reprints, it is also true that they are so scattered as to be available only after the most prolonged search, and so inaccessible as to be out of reach of one who has not access to a large library. Furthermore, no work of the present kind has yet appeared, if we except the contemporary Survey of London by John Stow. Some recent attempts to accompany prints of old London with letter - press have resulted in inaccuracies that render the works wholly useless to the person who wishes to be well informed. The present writer has attempted With great care to verify his facts and to draw as largely as possible upon contemporary sources. 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.

Download or read book English History in Shakespeare s Plays Classic Reprint written by Beverley E. Warner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English History in Shakespeare's Plays This volume had its origin in a course of lectures on the study of history as illustrated in the plays of Shakespeare. It is never safe to assume that what has been listened to with attention will be read with interest. The lectures, however, have been recast, pruned, and amplified, and much machinery has been added in the way of tables of contents, bibliography, chronological tables, and index. With such helps it is hoped that these pages may effect a working part nership between the Chronicle of the formal historian and the Epic of the dramatic poet. They are ad dressed especially to those readers and students of English History who may not have discovered what an aid to the understanding of certain important phases of England's national development lies in these histor ical plays, which cover a period of three hundred years. 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.

Download or read book The Study of Shakespeare Classic Reprint written by Henry Thew Stephenson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Study of Shakespeare For some fifteen years I have conducted classes in the study of Shakespeare at the University of Indiana. I early found that great advantage was derived from an intimate knowledge of the social conditions that obtained at the time the plays were written. My attempt to furnish some assistance in this direction by the publication of an account of Shakespeare's London and of the people of Eliza beth's generation has given me confidence in the preparation of a handbook designed differently from many now in use. Though criticism of the plays forms the larger part of the following pages, I have had no intention of writing a volume of criticism. The book is not intended to be read on its independent merits, but in conjunction with a study of the texts. Though I hope it will be of interest to those already familiar with the plays of Shakespeare, it is primarily ad dressed to students. 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.

Download or read book Shakespeare s England Vol 2 written by Walter Alexander Raleigh and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare's England, Vol. 2: An Account of the Life Manners of His Age 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.

Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by William Shakespeare and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of William Shakespeare, Vol. 2 Of France and England, did this king succeed; 'hose state so many had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed Which oft our stage hath shown; and, for their sake. 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.

Download or read book Shakespeare and Germany Classic Reprint written by Alois Brandl and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare and Germany With sentiments of profound reverence and gratitude I would say as the prologue to my discourse, and I feel sure that millions of my countrymen would say it with me, that the greatest boon which has ever come from England to Germany is the supreme and permeating influence of William Shakespeare. 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.

Download or read book Life in Shakespeare s England written by John Dover Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose Under full contribution, while most of the earlier pamphleteers are continually dropping into the 'character' vein and are full of such admirable little vignettes as the portrait of the bookseller from Nashe on p. 152. This, however, is not always the case, and that more use has not been made, for instance, of the work of Greene is to be set down to the fact that interesting passages are not easily detachable from the main body of his text. In collecting material for this scrap-book, l have in all cases given the reference to those specimens which are at once entertaining an complete in themselves. The majority of the extracts, it should be added, have been taken from books or documents written between I 564 and 1616, the dates of Shakespeare's birth and death, out of the sixty-nine used only four being earlier and some half dozen later than this period. 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.

Download or read book Shakespeare Classic Reprint written by Algernon Charles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare Lost and the first rough sketch of Romeo and Juliet we are compelled to admit that the name of their author, had he died and left behind him no other credentials than these, could hardly have been set by any competent judge beside that of the great young poet who had given to England and immortality the tragedies of Doctor Faustus and Edward the Second In the first of these three plays there some charm of humour, though the easantry is sometimes attenuated to of inanition in the second. 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.

Download or read book English Literature During the Lifetime of Shakespeare Classic Reprint written by Felix E. Schelling and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Literature During the Lifetime of Shakespeare The following pages attempt to tell once more, and as far as possible at first hand, the fascinating story of Elizabethan literature. But the tale has been somewhat compressed to treat what preceded the birth of Shakespeare with brevity, and what followed his death merely by indications and sug gestions. This compression has seemed the more justifiable because Shakespeare's own work, thus contemplated in what surrounded it, gives to the subject a closer unity, and because the transition from literature, as an Elizabethan conceived and practised it, to what it came to be regarded in the time of Charles I, was well on its way by the year 1616. 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.

Download or read book Shakespeare s History of King Henry the Fifth Classic Reprint written by William J. Rolfe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Fifth The notes on textual variations have been either omitted or abridged, as the text of the play is now virtually settled. For most of the Critical Comments in the former edition I have substituted matter of my own, much of which is drawn from familiar lectures prepared for audiences of teachers and students. Minor Changes have been made throughout the Notes, and many new ones have been added, includ ing a considerable number in place of those referring to my former editions of other plays. The book is now absolutely complete in itself. I believe that teachers will prefer the new edition to the old one; but both can be used, without serious inconvenience, in the same Class or club. 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.

Download or read book The English Drama in the Age of Shakespeare Classic Reprint written by Wilhelm Creizenach and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English Drama in the Age of Shakespeare Manner in which the old quartos came into being, 84-their characteristics, 85 - Their circulation, 88 - Lost editions, 89 Prefaces, dedications, and commendatory verses, 90 - Spirit of exclusiveness there displayed, 91 - Collected editions, 93 - Con temporary attitude towards the popular drama in England, 94 Ditto, abroad, 97. 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.

Download or read book Shakespeare in His Age Classic Reprint written by F. E. Halliday and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare in His Age Such a picture was not my purpose. I wanted to discover and describe what was happening in England, and even further afield, while Shakespeare was doing this and writing that. We all know that he was finishing Henry V at the time Of Essex's Irish campaign; but what was happening, what were other men doing - statesmen, courtiers, churchmen, sailors, poets and composers - when he married at the age Of eighteen, when he arrived in London, when he was writing Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth and Pericles, and when he was collaborating with Fletcher? The only thing that matters, of course, is the writing, but it follows that anything that illuminates it is Of some value, and such a synthesis seems to me to be particularly illuminating. King yohn gains by being seen in the light Of the death of Drake, the Cadiz Raid, the Islands Voyage and the poetry of Donne, and Lear in that Of the Hampton Court Conference, Gun powder Plot and Volpone. Then, against this shifting scene Shake speare himself becomes a more comprehensible figure, and, after all, the scene itself is not the least interesting in our history. 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.