Produced by Florian Hofmann, Stephanie Eason and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (Illustration images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) In telling the story of Shakespeare's life and work within strict limits of space, an attempt has been made to keep closely to essential matters. There is no period of the poet's life, there is no branch of his marvellous work, that has not been the subject of long and learned volumes, no single play that has not been discussed at greater length than serves here to cover the chief incidents of work and life together. If the Homes and Haunts do not claim the greater part of the following …
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