The Shakespeare Canon (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Shakespeare Canon These studies in the Shakespeare Canon are submitted to students, not as a body of uniformly assured results, but as the outcome of much protracted effort to reach testable and tested opinions. After twenty revisions, one has some notion of the possibilities of variations of view. But after a certain point one is fain to seek either criticism or confirmation: for the time being, this is as far as one can get. The main theses, long held, are, however, put with confirmed conviction. Old doubts as to the possibility of getting attention for such inquiries have been partly removed by the welcome emergence, in this field, of Messrs. Pollard and Dover Wilson, who in 1919 asked the readers of the Times Literary Supplement whether Shakespeare was likely to write in 1599 in the manner of certain passages cited by them from Henry V. The same challenge may as fitly be put with regard to much of Julius Cæsar. After many more revisions, accordingly, I have since decided to table certain discussions as putting some of the more prominent problems that have arisen for me in Shakespeare study, the origination of Henry V being one of them. Others have been set forth in previous essays these, which before were but outlined, arc now handled at some - I hope not undue - length, after a renewed pilgrimage. It may still be necessary to explain that the method of "clues, " herein at times resorted to, is not regarded as in itself a process of proof. 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.