Category: Biographies
There is one point above all others which bears strongly against the theory that William Shakspere, of Stratford-on-Avon, was the author of the so-called Shakespeare’s Plays, and that is the audacious doggerel which has been fathered on his memory. William Shakspere, after a d...
“What is there in three dice to make a man draw thrice three thousand acres into the compass of a little round table, and with the gentleman’s palsy in the hand shake out his po...
2. CHAPTER II.The nearest _reliable_ authority we have for any story connected with William Shakspere is the Vicar of Stratford-on-Avon, a man of literary tastes, who kept a voluminous journa...
1. CHAPTER I.There is one point above all others which bears strongly against the theory that William Shakspere, of Stratford-on-Avon, was the author of the so-called Shakespeare’s Plays, an...
3. CHAPTER III.I have waited until I had Mr. Donnelly’s book before me. The marvellous industry, research and intelligence displayed is simply astounding. I dare not express an opinion on the...
5. ACT 1, SCENE 3._Boling_. Your will be done: this must my comfort be, That sun, that warms you here, shall shine on me; And those his golden beams, to you here lent, Shall point on me, and gild...
4. ACT 3, SCENE 1._Boling_. “Myself, a prince by fortune of my birth; Near to the king in blood; and near in love, Till you did make him misinterpret me, Have stoop’d my neck under your injuries,...