Shakespeare's Environment (Classic Reprint)

Shakespeare's Environment (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10
1331920493
ISBN-13
9781331920496
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
396
Language
English
Published
2015-07-21
Author
Mrs. C. C. Stopes

Description

Excerpt from Shakespeare's Environment While arranging for a second issue I thought it advisable to include two of my last year's commemoration papers, as they bear directly upon "Shakespeares environment," and show the weakness of the traditional authority which has obscured so many facts in his life. At the first publication of this collection I regretted much that I could not see my way to include the illustrations which had appeared in "Murray's Monthly Review" to my story of the Stratford bust. Now I have an opportunity of giving at least one illustration. Last year, because it was Commemoration Year, I persuaded the distinguished young artist, Miss Estella Canziani, to study the face in Dugdale's engraving of Shakespeare's bust, with its photographs enlarged, to treat it as a sitter, and yet to paint it with the colours of the tomb. She has shown that the facial characteristics of that engraving are so much superior to any other presentment of the poet, that I felt it ought to be preserved as a frontispiece to the volume which contains my article on the subject. 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.

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