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Shakspere and Sir Walter Ralegh, Including Also Several Essays Previously Publ. in the New Shakspeareana, Ed. by S.l. Pemberton, With Revision
Shakspere and Sir Walter Ralegh Including Also Several Essays Previously Publ in the New Shakspeareana Ed by Sl Pemberton With Revision Author:Henry Pemberton Title: Shakspere and Sir Walter Ralegh, Including Also Several Essays Previously Publ. in the New Shakspeareana, Ed. by S.l. Pemberton, With Revision by C. Smyth General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1914 Subjects: Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint o... more »f the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Of all the biographers of Shakspere, Halliwell- Phillipps is easily first in rank as a patient, thorough, and careful investigator into the Tudor-Stuart documents that relate to the dramatist's life. The number of these examined by him must have amounted to thousands. This study was practically his life's work; and his volume, The Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, is still the main source whence the facts of the life must be obtained. Much of his book deals, of course, with the examination of the Plays and Poems, with the genealogical data of the family, and with the business transactions, real estate investments and lawsuits in which Shakspere was interested. I take no note of these, since they have no bearing on the point at issue: his social relations. The facts that concern us, it will be found, are scarcely over a dozen in number. They are entirely concordant, in that they reveal Shakspere to us as associating with actors only. In spite of all that his biographers have written, there cannot be produced to-day a single document of his time, aside perhaps from the prefatory matter connected with his works, showing him ever to have moved in circles other than these. This surprising fact, as I have shown, is ignored by his biographers, who seem to take delight in " obliterating the little that is known " and in establishing " a mythical Shakspere." Stratford, in the time of El...« less