Doubtful Plays Of William Shakespeare

Author : William Hazlitt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330347393
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Supplementary Works of William Shakespeare written by William Hazlitt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Supplementary Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Poems and Doubtful Plays; With Glossarial and Other Notes The Doubtful Plays of Shakspeare are printed with this Edition of his undoubted works, because the mere fact of their having been repeatedly printed as his productions entitles them to popular perpetuation, and because there is fair presumption that, in greater or less proportion, several of them, at least, actually passed through his hands. It is now a century and a half since they were all published together as his compositions, and four of them had been separately printed with his name in his lifetime; and for a still longer period various opinions have been entertained about them. The decision of critics, however, on a point so long agitated, should not satisfy the curious and intelligent reader of Shakspeare. He will wish to see with his own eyes, and to decide by the power of his own understanding ; and to him these performances, in their present form, will not be unacceptable. Indeed, considering them merely as productions of writers contemporary with our author, they may be perused with advantage; since, like most of the dramatic compositions of that time, they may serve to explain his phraseology, and illustrate his allusions. The text employed is that of Johnson, Steevens, and Reid, whose notes have been revised, and in some few instances augmented, by the present Editor. 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.