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The Facts About Shakespeare By: William Allan Neilson (1869-1946) |
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THE FACTS ABOUT
SHAKESPEARE
BY WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON, PH.D.
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND ASHLEY HORACE THORNDIKE, PH.D., L.H.D.
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
[Illustration]
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1927 All rights reserved
COPYRIGHT, 1913,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1913. Reprinted April,
1914; July, 1915; May, November, 1916; January, 1918; February,
September, 1920; September, 1921; March, 1922; February, December, 1923;
October, 1924; June, 1926; January, December, 1927. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY
THE BERWICK & SMITH CO.
Transcriber's Notes: Unique page headings have been retained, marked as [Page Heading:],
and positioned at the first available paragraph break of the page or
the preceding page. Many spelling inconsistencies exist due to the historical period of
the quoted sources. These, in addition to the original punctuation,
have been retained. Obvious typesetting errors have been corrected and noted in the
Transcriber's Endnotes at the end of the text. Some index entries have been re sequenced to allow for clarity of
sub entries. These changes are recorded in the Transcriber's
Endnotes along with a copy of the original text. The following non standard characters have been represented as
follows: [oe] oe ligature
[OE] OE ligature
[~e] tilde over e. A contraction of en.
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I. SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND AND LONDON 1 II. BIOGRAPHICAL FACTS AND TRADITIONS 17 III. SHAKESPEARE'S READING 50 IV. CHRONOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT 67 V. THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 89 VI. THE ELIZABETHAN THEATER 117 VII. THE TEXT OF SHAKESPEARE 131 VIII. QUESTIONS OF AUTHENTICITY 156 IX. SHAKESPEARE SINCE 1616 167 X. CONCLUSION 188 APPENDIX A. BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTS AND AUTHORITIES 203 APPENDIX B. INDEX OF THE CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS 226 APPENDIX C. INDEX OF THE SONGS 241 APPENDIX D. BIBLIOGRAPHY 243 INDEX 265
THE FACTS ABOUT SHAKESPEARE
The Facts about Shakespeare [Illustration] CHAPTER I SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND AND LONDON
Shakespeare lived in a period of change. In religion, politics,
literature, and commerce, in the habits of daily living, in the world of
ideas, his lifetime witnessed continual change and movement. When
Elizabeth came to the throne, six years before he was born, England was
still largely Catholic, as it had been for nine centuries; when she died
England was Protestant, and by the date of Shakespeare's death it was
well on the way to becoming Puritan. The Protestant Reformation had
worked nearly its full course of revolution in ideas, habits, and
beliefs. The authority of the church had been replaced by that of the
Bible, of the English Bible, superbly translated by Shakespeare's
contemporaries. Within his lifetime, again, England had attained a
national unity and an international importance heretofore unknown. The
Spanish Armada had been defeated, the kingdoms of England and Scotland
united, and the first colony established in America. Even more
revolutionary had been the assertion of national greatness in literature
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