Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Contemporaries of Shakespeare
Various essays were unearthed from old periodicals, and among the manuscripts purchased by Mr. T. J. Wise from watts-dunton the missing chapters were included. The only section of the present volume which has appeared in separate book-form before is the essay on George Chapman. This was originally published, a thin octavo, in 1875, and has been out of print for more than a quarter Of a century. Swinburne neglected to order its republication, doubtless because he wished it eventually to take its place as a part Of the great Elizabethan structure. In restoring it, therefore, we believe that we are carrying out his wishes to the utmost Of our power. In a further rearrangement, the short summary of Chapman's life written for the Encyclopedia Britannica, like the trifling pages on Webster pub lished in 1894, will disappear from the system of The Age of Shakespeare. 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.
