Shakespeare: Five Lectures (Classic Reprint)Excerpt from Shakespeare: Five Lectures The following lectures are the result of occasional readings of Shakespeare ex tending through sixty years. The author is not at all a Shakespearean scholar. He has not given attention to discussions of the text nor taken much interest in special interpretations of peculiar passages. He has not even made himself familiar With all the minor characters of the different plays, but he has taken an almost life-long interest in the great passages, and in the acute, deft, liquid' expressions scattered through the poet's compositions. He has also taken an interest in the man himself, sought to form an idea of his personality. The lectures are a collection and arrange ment of notes and impressions dating from various readings on Widely separated occasions. 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. |
