Supposed Caricatures of the Droeshout Portrait of Shakespeare

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Excerpt from Supposed Caricatures of the Droeshout Portrait of Shakespeare: With Fac-Simile of the Rare Print Taken From a Very Scarce Tract of an Elizabethan PoetRecently an Italian writer has demonstrated that in ancient times one could go all the way from the Sea to Bohemia in a boat, so that we are glad to believe Shake speare did not blunder after all. It seems to me John Taylor was the forerunner of our newspaper reporter. To read some of his queer titles reminds one of the head lines in a metropolitan daily - although the modern news paper can scarcely outdo his descriptive titles. A few specimens are given here for the reader's amusement.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.