Shakespeares True Life

Author : James Walter
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ISBN 13 : 9781330992296
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's True Life (Classic Reprint) written by James Walter and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare's True Life While admitting the great debt of all lovers of Shakespeare to Phillips in the matter of Shakespearean research, we cannot but regret that his accumulative power should have vastly exceeded his discrimination. He tells us not to rely on statements where unsupported by corroborative evidence. In regard, however, to traditions current in villages around Stratford, he attaches great importance to such as include reference to facts or conditions which have been verified by modern inquiry, but which could only have been known to the narrators through hearsay. The same indefatigable writer admits that Shakespeare may have been secretly married to Anne Hathaway according to Roman Catholic form, yet failed to trace the fact of a religious ceremonial union such as the writer hopes he has satisfactorily shown to have been solemnized in the Shottery Manor House Chantry. The happy union of the descendant and living representative of the Thane of Fife with the fair daughter of Britain's Royal House standing next in succession to the throne, a family of which both parents, like our beneficent Sovereign herself, are bound up in the hearts of the nation with a respect and depth of affection to which history affords no parallel, seems a specially fitting occasion for an endeavour to place the greatest of all authors fairly before his readers, now denizens of the whole civilized world. Shakespeare has made the English-speaking race everywhere familiar with the facts in the regal lineage of Fife and Macduff. The mighty limner is the historian. Memory recalls the defeat of Macbeth at Dunsinane in the far-back year 1054, and of the after battle at Lumphanan, in Aberdeenshire, in 1056, in which Macbeth was taken and slain, and Macduff restored to his ancient earldom, with the privileges confirmed by the grateful Malcolm of the big heart as well as of the big head. The Macduffs continued to reign in Fifeshire till the beginning of the fifteenth century. For three centuries they have maintained a semi-regal position, formed alliances with the Royal Houses of England, Scotland, and Wales, and held a prominent place in the national life of the country. 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.