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A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sidney Lee This work is based on the article on Shakespeare which I contributed last year to the fifty-first volume of the 'Dictionary of National Biography.' But the changes and additions which the article has undergone... Read Full Overview

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

A biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent English critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon.

A Life of William Shakespeare is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher... Read Full Overview

Book ExcerptSince the publication of the article on Shakespeare in the 'Dictionary of National Biography, ' I have received from correspondents many criticisms and suggestions which have enabled me to correct some errors. But a few of my correspondents have exhibited so ingenuous... Read Full Overview

A Life of William Shakespeare is a classic Shakespeare biography by Sidney Lee. I cannot promise my readers any startling revelations in this Shakespeare biography. But my researches have enabled me to remove some ambiguities which puzzled my predecessors, and to throw light... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview