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A Life of William Shakespeare, by Sidney Lee
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Title: A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
Author: Sidney Lee
Release Date: November 12, 2007 [eBook #23464]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE***
Transcribed from the 1899 Smith, Elder and Co. edition by Les Bowler.
[Picture: William Shakespeare]
A LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
BY SIDNEY LEE.
WITH PORTRAITS AND FACSIMILES
FOURTH EDITION
LONDON SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1899
[All rights reserved]
Printed November 1898 (First Edition).
Reprinted December 1898 (Second Edition); December 1898 (Third Edition); February 1899 (Fourth Edition).
PREFACE
This work is based on the article on Shakespeare which I contributed last year to the fifty-first volume of the 'Dictionary of National Biography.' But the changes and additions which the article has undergone during my revision of it for separate publication are so numerous as to give the book a title to be regarded as an independent venture. In its general aims, however, the present life of Shakespeare endeavours loyally to adhere to